Hello WooReaders! We're back for another week of adult patron book reviews. There's a great selection of titles this week, which includes fiction and nonfiction. If you'd like to read any of these books, click the title to be brought to our catalog to place a hold. Join our WooReads Adults Challenge: Turn a New Page to log your books and help us reach our community goal of 3,000 books read by the end of May. We're almost there!
Great work by Samantha Irby. Her essays are laugh out loud funny, great distraction from the current events. ~ Rebecca G.
A nice story centered around five people who spend the Winter Solstice together. Their paths converge after a series of personally unfortunate events, and during the time spent together, they learn to live, laugh, and love again. ~ Mary T.
Would highly recommend this book. Really fun! ~ Jovietthe R.
There are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
Compelling view of life in a South Side Chicago public housing complex in the 1980's. The book follows one family for several years while the main characters, 2 brothers, are elementary and middle school age. The challenges (which is putting it mildly) that these children face on a daily basis are immense. I was so concerned about them by the end of the book that I had to google to see whether they were even still alive (they are). MANY social justice issues are portrayed in the book by an author who actually spent time, money, and great effort to try and change the trajectory of the boys' lives with some, but not complete success. Well worth reading. ~ Linda J.
Compelling view of life in a South Side Chicago public housing complex in the 1980's. The book follows one family for several years while the main characters, 2 brothers, are elementary and middle school age. The challenges (which is putting it mildly) that these children face on a daily basis are immense. I was so concerned about them by the end of the book that I had to google to see whether they were even still alive (they are). MANY social justice issues are portrayed in the book by an author who actually spent time, money, and great effort to try and change the trajectory of the boys' lives with some, but not complete success. Well worth reading. ~ Linda J.
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