All Booked Up
Windsor Library's Newsletter for Readers
September 2021
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"I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn't matter. It's that he found another world in it."
Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted
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Listen Up
 
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone "family," the complicated reality of being a grown up, and the consequences of doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Narrated by Nicole Lewis
Length: 10 hours
2021 Fiction Audie Award Winner                           
No, But I Read the Book
The Netflix series Firefly Lane is based on the book of the same title by Kristin Hannah. In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer’s end they’ve become Tully and Kate. Inseparable. For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they’ve survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test.
While You're Waiting
While you are waiting for football season to ramp up, try reading about the game. In Why Football Matters, acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its men. Why Football Matters is moving, funny, vivid, and filled with the authentic anxiety and exhilaration of youth. Edmundson doesn’t regret playing football for a minute, and cherishes the experience. His triumph is to be able to see it in full, as something to celebrate, but also something to handle with care. For anyone who has ever played on a football team, is the parent of a player, or simply is reflective about its outsized influence on America, Why Football Matters is both a mirror and a lamp.
Raising a Reader (Kids & Teen Books of Interest)
Beep! Beep! Beep! Meet Blue. A muddy country road is no match for this little pickup--that is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the muck. Luckily, Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his route. Little Blue Truck now has a series - from holiday fun to saying goodnight to getting ready for school, your little one will be entertained.

Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle, Illustrated by Emily McElmurry
Windsor Library Reading Challenge:
Read a Book from a Celebrity Book Club
From Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club:

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, she quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared. Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth, together. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they are also building a new future. One neither Hannah nor Bailey could have anticipated. (JMW)
From Oprah's Book Club Picks & the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club Reading List:

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. This novel is peopled by vividly realized, individual characters and driven by interpersonal drama, but it is also very much about being black in contemporary America. This is, at its heart, a love story, but a love story warped by racial injustice. And, in it, Jones suggests that racial injustice haunts the African-American story. Subtle, well-crafted, and powerful. (Joan)
From Belletrist, formed by Emma Roberts:

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

In suburban Indiana we meet Lina, a homemaker and mother of two whose marriage, after a decade, has lost its passion. After reconnecting with an old flame through social media, Lina embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming. In North Dakota we meet Maggie, a seventeen-year-old high school student who allegedly has a clandestine physical relationship with her handsome, married English teacher; the ensuing criminal trial will turn their quiet community upside down. Finally, in an exclusive enclave of the Northeast, we meet Sloane—a gorgeous, successful, and refined restaurant owner—who is happily married to a man who has challenging tastes. Three Women introduces us to unforgettable women—and one remarkable writer—whose experiences remind us that we are not alone. (JMW)