August 13th is the last day to join the Read Beyond the Beaten Path Adult Summer Reading Challenge! For our grand prize, log at least 10 books for two chances to win a MoMA book lamp!
Find your next great read at our Reader's Corner, which features books recommended by WPL staff, or try one of our Bundles if you'd like a librarian to select books, magazines or DVDs for you. For information on adult classes and programs, visit mywpl.org.
Enjoy these book reviews submitted by your fellow patrons through our WooReads challenge.
Brilliantly done. It is mostly first-person narration, with some 3rd-person, and the style differences brilliantly convey the shifts in POV and also create the narrator character for us. This is the "Flowers for Algernon" of the 21st century. But it has a happier ending. ~Amy W.
The Catch Me If You Can documents the journey of the first Black woman to travel to all 195 countries. Warning: causes bouts of envy and serious wanderlust. ~Mary T.
This was an easy summer read. It's amazing how many doctors Selma consulted over the years before anyone ordered the MRI that revealed her chronic illness when it was quite advanced and required a potentially-dangerous treatment. About half the book is about Selma's childhood and school years, which she tells in a wonderfully humorous way. Highly recommend!
~Linda J.
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I swear, Colson Whitehead can write anything. He takes all manner of popular genres and turns them into high quality literary fiction. He's done it with the Zombie novel, historical fiction, magical realism. And now with a crime novel that is at the same time a love letter to New York City and particularly Harlem. ~Dale R.
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