WooReads Adult Patron Book Reviews: Books for Cool Autumn Nights

Autumn has finally arrived, which means it's time to find your coziest blanket and curl up with a good book. Here's our weekly selection of patron book reviews, and all of these books sound worthy of reading on a crisp fall evening. Check out what your fellow WooReaders are saying and decide if any of these titles should be on your list.

Remember, too, that this is all part of our Adult Reading Challenge: Beyond Summer program. Logging books and writing reviews means you might win some library gear, and the more you log and write the greater chance you have of winning one of our Kindle Paperwhite Grand Prizes. If you still haven't joined the Reading Challenge, you can do so here: mywpl.beanstack.com.


Happy Reading!

The Idiot
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
This book took me a while to get through, partly because the story was very dense, and partly because the characters' names and the locations (all Russian) were a bit difficult for me to get used to. However, once I got into the story, it was well worth the time and effort. I think that a lot of the themes are relevant today, even though this book was first published in 1868. I found that it was helpful to read the introduction (my copy has an introduction by Joseph Frank, and is translated by Constance Garnett), since knowing a little bit about the author's life informed my reading of the story. It reminded me a bit of Tolstoy's 'War and Peace', except I found these characters more compelling. There's many different kinds of love and friendship, and I think that the characters' relationships with each other and the protagonist (Myshkin) are what make the story truly worth reading.

~Carrie B.

Lethal Licorice
By Amanda Flower
This is a cozy mystery which I love to read for pleasure. Bailey is a chocolatier from NY who moves to an Amish community in Ohio to help her Grandparents in their candy shop. She then gets involved in solving murder mysteries. Love this type of book.

~Frances N.

Horns
By Joe Hill
Wonderful and scary. Sad and romantic. Love it.

~Miriam V.

The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero
By William Kalush and Larry Sloman
I was impressed by the research that the author's Kalush and Sloman were able to compile in writing the book "The Secret Life of Houdini". In the year 1925 Houdini performed for two weeks in Worcester, MA.

~Paul K.

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
By H.G. Parry
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep is a great fantasy for lovers of the "Thursday Next" novels. Professor Charlie Sutherland has a secret: he can bring book characters to life. Usually he can control them and return them to the novel they came from, but sometimes they escape into the real world. When things go wrong, he turns to his older brother, Rob. And this time, things have really gone wrong. This is an entertaining story about the love between siblings and about the magic of reading.

~Mary R.

Good in Bed
By Jennifer Weiner
Her writing is so smooth and relatable. You feel like you are Cannie or at least feel like your rooting for her! Can’t wait to read more of her work!

~Susan M.