All Booked Up from the Windsor Library: March 2023

All Booked Up

Windsor Library's Newsletter for Readers

March 2023

The Adult Winter Reading Program has started at the Windsor Public Library. We encourage you all to participate. For more information, please call the Reference Desk at 860-285-1918 or the Wilson Branch at 860-247-8960.

“We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part of the word "history," and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence."

Frank Delaney from Tipperary

Coming to a bookshelf near you!

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20 Best New Women History Books to Read in 2023

Exciting New March 2023 Books

See all of our new materials this month!

No, But I Read the Book

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones & The Six follows a rock band in the 1970s from their rise in the LA music scene to becoming one of the most legendary bands in the world and explores the reason behind their split at the height of their success. The upcoming Amazon Prime Video series is based on Taylor Jenkins Reid's book of the same name, which the author describes was partly inspired by her experience growing up and by watching Fleetwood Mac performances on television

Staff Pick

Finlay Donovan is killing it by Elle Cosimano

While you are waiting for the next Thursday Murder Club book, try the Finlay Donovan series by Elle Cosimano. In the first book, Finlay Donovan is Killing It, Finlay Donovan is killing it . . . except, she’s really not. She’s a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, except the new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors. When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer, and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet . . . Soon, Finlay, becomes tangled in a real-life murder investigation. Funny and smart.

Book Club Corner

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Two half sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations.

Listen Up (Audiobook recommendation)

The Librarian of Crooked Lane

Narrated by Marian Hussey

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

A librarian with a mysterious past, a war hero with a secret, and the heist of a magic painting. Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she's descended from magicians, she's skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she's just an ordinary woman who loves books. The Librarian of Crooked Lane is an intriguing new fantasy from C.J. Archer, the USA Today bestselling author of the Glass and Steele series. Available on Hoopla.

Spotlight: Graphic Novels

Blankets: an illustrated novel by Craig Thompson

Loosely based on the author's life, chronicles Craig's journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the people, experiences, and beliefs that he encountered along the way.

Here by Richard McGuire

Here is the story of a corner of a room and the events that happened in that space while moving forward and backward in time. The book experiments with formal properties of comics, using multiple panels to convey the different moments in time. Hundreds of thousands of years become interwoven.

Building Stories by Chris Ware

Presents an illustrated tale, told in various books and folded sheets, about the residents in a three-story Chicago apartment building, including a lonely single woman, a couple who are growing to despise each other, and an elderly landlady.