Today, the Matchmakers team welcomes Adult Summer Reading Coordinator Adam! Adam writes:
Time flies when you’ve found some good books— there are just under two weeks left in this year’s Summer Reading program! Whether you’re just starting or finishing strong, join in the challenge on Beanstack for a chance to win great prizes, including our iPad Grand Prize!
Earn raffle tickets and enter prize drawings right from your device. Register at heightslibrary.beanstack.org or download the Beanstack app, available for iOS and Android (site name: “Heights Libraries OH”).
Between June 1 and August 10, participate by logging your reading, writing reviews, and attending programs. Here’s some picks our Summer Readershave enjoyed to match your summer vibes:
Heading out on a summer vacation: The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren is a fun summer story readers loved for its well-done romance tropes. A huge inheritance is on the line as two opposing exes (who, of course, couldn’t be more different) must reunite on a private island to survive family scrutiny. Readers loved that genuine care and good chemistry between the leads buoys delightful chaos, hilarity, and even some heavier discussion of class and family dynamics: this is beach reading at its best.
Looking for a short but touching read to wrap up the summer? Readers found the five stories in Michiko Aoyama’s What You Are Looking For Is in the Library to be thought-provoking, perfect for a summer pick-me-up. In this translated Japanese novel, a strange librarian guides patrons to books they never knew they needed with surprising results — and this book might justbe that for you.
If you’re after a layered story of secrets and emotions, readers enjoyed the intrigue and intertwining points of view in Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris. This contemporary family drama follows a group of African American siblings as the revisit their past and their secrets as they try to stop developers from taking over their late father’s North Carolina home.
Finally, for a darkly funny mystery to end a summer night, readers recommend Elle Cosimano‘s Finlay Donovan series. With a blend of thrills and humor, it follows a struggling suspense author who learns real-life crime is stranger than fiction when she’s mistaken for an assassin. Start with the first hit story, Finlay Donovan is Killing It.
