Category: Literary
2023 Adult Reading Challenge! September
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2023/09/01/2023-adult-reading-challenge-september/
DISCOVER DIFFERENT GENRES! FIND NEW AUTHORS! WIN PRIZES! JOIN OUR EXPLORING GENRES BOOK CLUB! Join us for a fun book challenge throughout 2023! Sign up and keep track via Beanstack. If you’ve participated in any of our recent summer or winter reading...
Everything Old is New Again, Part 1
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2017/12/08/everything-old-is-new-again-part-1/
If you like reading the classics, you may be interested in some of the new interpretations that have come out in the past few years. One publisher, Hogarth, has a series of Shakespeare tales retold by some of today’s most popular authors. Here is...
Man Called Ove
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/06/18/man-called-ove/
Title: A Man Called Ove Author: Fredrik Backman Publisher: Atria Books, 2014/Dreamscape Media, LLC. (audiobook), 2014 Summary/Review: Ove is not someone you want to cross paths with. He is an older man, set in his ways, and not afraid to tell people what he...
Delicious Foods
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/04/26/delicious-foods/
Title: Delicious Foods Author: James Hannaham Publisher: Little Brown & Company, March 2015 Summary/Review: The story begins with Eddie, who has recently escaped a mysterious company called Delicious Foods. His mother, Darlene, is still working there. Eddie has no hands, he’s estranged from his...
Mrs. Hemingway
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/06/19/mrs-hemingway/
Title: Mrs. Hemingway Author: Naomi Wood Publisher: Penguin, May 2014 Summary/Review: Favorable comparisons with Paula McLain’s outstanding novel “The Paris Wife” are inevitable and deserved, and anyone who enjoyed “The Paris Wife” will no doubt love “Mrs. Hemingway.” What makes Naomi Wood’s book such...
All the Light we Cannot See
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/02/08/all-the-light-we-cannot-see/
Title: All the Light We Cannot See Author: Anthony Doerr Publisher: Scribner, May 2014 Summary/Review: It is 1934 and Marie-Laure is just 6 years old when she loses her sight. Her father, the principle locksmith for the National Museum of Natural History in Paris,...
Canada
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/01/31/canada/
Title: Canada Author: Richard Ford Publisher: Ecco , May 2012 Summary/Review: Dell (the narrator) and Berner Parsons are ordinary fifteen year old twins living a somewhat isolated life with their parents in Montana circa 1956. Their father has failed at a number of ventures...
Schroder
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/12/08/schroder/
Title: Schroder Author: By Amity Gaige Publisher: Grand Central, 2013 Summary/Review: Erik Schroder is writing a letter to his estranged wife. It is an apology and an explanation as to why he felt compelled to kidnap their daughter. Writing from the correctional facility from...
The Dog Stars
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/09/20/the-dog-stars/
Title: The Dog Stars Author: Peter Heller Publisher: Knopf, August 2012 Summary/Review: After a pandemic kills 99% of the population, a survivor tries to find some hope for the future. Hig, along with his dog Jasper and fellow survivor Bangley, is living on a...
The Language of Trees
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/10/19/the-language-of-trees/
Title: The Language of Trees Author: Ilie Ruby Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, July 2010 Summary: Ilie Ruby’s debut novel opens with a canoeing accident in the waters of the Canandaigua Lake. The three small Ellis children have stolen a canoe and are making their way out...