Here are a few summer reads that aren’t summer reading (you know the school kind). All these YA books take place during the summer. A little...
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Read, Renew, Repeat with the 2024 Adult Summer Reading program!
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...
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Black Joy: Adult Fiction
The Matchmakers team salutes the Juneteenth holiday with a blog post featuring fiction for adults, written by Black authors. The characters in these...
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Come and Read at the Contemporary Fiction Cafe!
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...
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The 2024 Adult Summer Reading Program: Read, Renew, Repeat
Today the Matchmakers team welcomes Adult Summer Reading Coordinator, Jen M! Jen writes: Read, renew, repeat with the 2024 Adult Summer Reading...
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She Drives Me Crazy
You can fit so many tropes into this one. Fake dating? Check. Enemies to lovers? Check. Grand gestures? Check. Basketball and cheerleader? Check....
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Journeys of Self-discovery
I read a lot of romance, but these two books struck me as a little bit different than your typical romantic faire. Must Love Books and Float Plan...
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When you just want to get away
I don't know about you, but when the weather turns snowy and gray, I long to be somewhere much more tropical than Cleveland. Since travel to warmer...
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Andrea’s Best Books of 2021
Happy New Year (somewhat belatedly, 2022 is already shaping up to be another strange year, right?) from the Matchmakers team! I like to read "Best...
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I have so many questions, Mrs. Caliban
The title of this post was my first thought after reading this wonderful, bewildering, and somewhat depressing novella. For such a short story,...
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Thanksgiving books to get you in the holiday spirit
I'm always a big fan of books set during holidays, and Thanksgiving is no exception! Here are some books that you can enjoy in between cooking,...
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Love is in the air
Typically, when I read, I like to alternate genres, but I've found myself reading a lot of romances lately. They've been a nice bit of escapism in...
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