When reading a book, we tend to follow the journey and exploits of one protagonist. But what if there were two? Or three? Or ten?! Today is a...
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...
LGTBQIA Historical Fiction
I've read a lot of contemporary romances featuring LGBTQIA characters, but I wanted to delve a little deeper into both the LGBTQIA genre as well as...
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...
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...
Satire at its Finest
Humor, irony, and exaggeration are the three necessary components of the satirical novel, and if this sounds enjoyable to you then I have three...
A Houseful of Hauntings
This month, I thought I’d focus my pleasure reading on haunted house books—but only those that have the word “house” in the title, just for fun!A...
Waiting to be Arrested at Night: A Memoir from Xinjiang
I want to begin this post with a short explanation. This blog post is a companion piece to a post I wrote last year about The Backstreets, the first...
Older Women Can Be Protagonists, Too, You Know
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...
Mushrooms and Beetles and Snails, Oh My!
I’ve read several books lately that focus on the tiniest forms of life—some creatures charming and inspiring, others, devastatingly harmful, and...
Hispanic and Latinx books
Today's blog comes from guest author, Michele Hirschfeld, who is highlighting Hispanic and Latinx authors. Anita De Monte Laughs Last, by Xochitl...
Gardening with Children!
Here at the Coventry Village Branch, we’re gearing up for gardening season. In this week of the vernal equinox, we’ve got seedlings starting inside,...
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