Summer Reading Kickoff

I plan on taking some time to blog about IPAL and ILA/ACRL (both just happened last week), but wanted to post about our first Summer Reading Program meeting! We have 40 people enrolled, which beats last year's enrollment by 4--and we might still pick up a few stragglers as the summer goes along!

Today was our first lunch event & we had 14 attend, which is on par with last year's kickoff. There were some new faces and some familiar ones from last summer, and tons of great discussion! Here are a couple of photos of the group. (I always manage to catch folks with food in their mouths... I don't know if it's a gift or a curse of mine!)

Here is the list of Authors/Books that were mentioned. I tried to catch them all, but sorry if I missed any!

• Kerry Greenwood: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/48067.Kerry_Greenwood?from_search=true
• Ruth Rendell: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10890.Ruth_Rendell?from_search=true
• Maeve Binchy: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3532.Maeve_Binchy?from_search=true
• Circle of Friends: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41977.Circle_of_Friends 
• Alan Bradley: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1074866.Alan_Bradley?from_search=true
• Casual Vacancy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13497818-the-casual-vacancy?from_search=true
• Cuckoo’s Calling (JK Rowling as Robert Galbraith): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16160797-the-cuckoo-s-calling?from_search=true
• Henning Wankell: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22339.Henning_Mankell?from_search=true (inspector Wallander series)
• Down These Mean Streets: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95127.Down_These_Mean_Streets?from_search=true 
• Orphan Master’s Son: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11529868-the-orphan-master-s-son?from_search=true 
• Were’d you go, Bernadette? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13526165-where-d-you-go-bernadette?from_search=true 
• Stephen Jay Gould: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19109.Stephen_Jay_Gould?from_search=true 
• The Golem and the Jinni: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15819028-the-golem-and-the-jinni?ac=1 
• Matthew Bartholomew series by Susanna Gregory: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/37774.Susanna_Gregory?from_search=true
• Bartimaeus Series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/40838-bartimaeus-sequence 
• Same Kind of Different As Me: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104189.Same_Kind_of_Different_as_Me?from_search=true
• Jasper Fforde: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4432.Jasper_Fforde?from_search=true
• Thursday Next series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/43680-thursday-next 
• Nursery Crimes series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/43679-nursery-crime 
• Kate Atkinson: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10015.Kate_Atkinson?from_search=true
• Life After Life: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790842-life-after-life?from_search=true 
• Case Histories (Jackson Brodie series): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16243.Case_Histories?ac=1 
• Janet Evanovich: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2384.Janet_Evanovich?from_search=true
• Stephanie Plum series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/43040-stephanie-plum 
• Lillian Jackson Braun: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21625.Lilian_Jackson_Braun?from_search=true
• The Cat Who… Series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/41015-cat-who 
• Martha Grimes: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14150.Martha_Grimes?from_search=true
• Laura Hillenbrand: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/30913.Laura_Hillenbrand?from_search=true 
• Hyperbole and a Half: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571564-hyperbole-and-a-half?from_search=true
• Let’s Pretend this Never Happened: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12868761-let-s-pretend-this-never-happened?from_search=true