Today the Matchmakers team welcomes Adult Summer Reading coordinator Jen! Jen writes:Summer Reading is in full swing, but it’s not too late to join the challenge for a chance to win great prizes, including our iPad Grand Prize! Earn raffle tickets and enter prize...
The Matchmakers team salutes the Juneteenth holiday with a blog post featuring fiction for adults, written by Black authors. The characters in these novels do experience conflict (where would the plot be without it?), AND, just as importantly, the themes emphasize...
I enjoy taking in contemporary fiction because it's interesting to see how a writer views and portrays the world we live in today. It's particularly nice to experience the many subgenres that fall under contemporary fiction. It's like reading a menu from the...
Today the Matchmakers team welcomes Adult Summer Reading Coordinator, Jen M! Jen writes: Read, renew, repeat with the 2024 Adult Summer Reading program! Summer Reading is going green, with less paper but all the same fun. Log your reading, earn raffle tickets, and...
Every romance heroine doesn't have to be in her 20s. Every amateur detective does not have to be a Girl Sleuth. I particularly enjoy novels in which the women protagonists are unapologetically older and use their wisdom and life experience to triumph over whatever...
The Matchmakers welcome new Matchmaker Lisa Gordon! Lisa writes: Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci (2021) The pungent odor of sautéed onions wafts from the pan I’m shaking. The pan sizzles and spits as I dump in a cup of chopped, homegrown tomatoes. I...
I recently read three terrific new novels. I'm not sure that they have much in common; they all have contemporary timelines, except one of them has the dual timeline plotline going on. Two of them are set in the United States; one of them is set in England. They're...
Today the Matchmakers welcome guest blogger Michele Hirschfeld! Michele writes: Last Summer on State Street, the 2022 debut novel by Toya Wolfe, describes the summer of 1999 as four friends experience the dismantling of their girlhood and neighborhood. I love...
March is Women's History Month, and the Matchmakers team has created a list of historical fiction titles by women authors, with women as the heroes of their own stories. Enjoy our book suggestions! Violeta by Isabel Allende The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict...
Today the Matchmakers team welcomes guest blogger James Rogers, who leads the Pioneers of Sci-Fi Book Club! James writes: I’m a big fan of Science Fiction, and by far my favorite Sci-Fi stories always have deep and well thought out world building. They not only detail...