Adults Read Two
Take part in our Summer Reading Challenge
The Summer Reading Challenge isn't just for children! Celebrate your love of books and reading this summer and join our adult reading challenge. You can take part in the Adults Read Two Competition by telling us about two books you have read this summer, and be in with a chance to win a £50 book voucher through our prize draw. Just select the competition tab below to enter.
You can also take part in our #30DayBookChallenge from 13 July. This is just for fun but can be used for ideas for your reading over the Summer. We’d love to know the first book you ever read, what book makes you instantly happy or a book by your favourite author. Join in the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and tell us #WhatYouAreReading
Whether it be a gripping thriller or cosy romance, reading a book for just six minutes can help improve an individual's mental health. You can now join the library online and get instant access to all our free online resources including eBooks, eAudio books, eMagazines and eNewspapers, just click here.
If you have children or grandchildren there is also a list of online children's events which are running over the summer just select the Online events tab below to see details.
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Read two books (they can be an eBook, eAudio book, a library book or one of your own) between 1 July and 31 August 2020 to be in with a chance to win a £50 book voucher through our prize draw. All you have to do is to write the titles and authors of the two books you have read, along with what you thought of them (this can be simply one word e.g. “good” or longer, your choice).
Click ‘add an idea’ to enter. Add a title and author and then write a review in the description box, youContinue reading
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The one. Kiera Cass
A good ending on this trilogy but the last few chapters felt very rushed. Almost like she was going to write a forth book to finish the story but got told by the publisher at the last minuite that they only wanted 3 books.
5 days ago
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
This is the autobiography of Audre Lorde from her childhood up to her coming of age in the late 1950’s. I hadn’t known what to expect, except that it was a book about a black woman’s experience of life in the USA in the 1950s. It’s much more than that as well. It’s about love, and learning to stand on your own two feet, and how much more complicated it is to deal with your own inner, personal life, when faced with prejudice and racism. She was an amazing woman, and I’ll be looking to read some of her other books.
5 days ago
The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman
A retelling of the well known fairytale Sleeping Beauty, with a dash of Snow White. This is the story that people should want their daughters to read - the princess doesn’t need a hero to save them, because they’re perfectly capable of saving themselves. Well, except for Sleeping Beauty, who can’t do too much to help herself. So in steps Snow White. A really lovely story, a bit creepy in places (I would have loved this as a child!). And the illustrations are, of course, beautiful.
6 days ago
"Holy Island" by LJ Ross
I chose to read this book simply because it was set on Holy Island, where I visited several years ago and loved for the history and atmosphere. It was my first exposure to the stories of DCI Ryan, and although there were plenty of references to previous novels about the DCI, there was sufficient clarity for this story to stand alone. In the end I wasn't a fan of the modern witchcraft/devil worship theme but I still found it sufficiently gripping that I couldn't put it down and I am looking forward to reading the earlier DCI Ryan stories seeing what led up to the point where "Holy Island" begins.
6 days ago
"The Irish Princess" by Elizabeth Chadwick
This is the "true" story of an Irish king, his daughter and her husband. I loved the "Cast of Characters" at the beginning, allowing me to refer back throughout the book to check who was who and how they related to each other, and I liked the quick guide to pronunciation and the Author's Note at the end of the book. For me these touches provided a framework which helped me understand the broader history and the specific story. Obviously the dialogue is imagined but I think the bare bones of historical accuracy is there. I loved that the story of Aoife and Richard was unexpectedly a love story and it is so poignant to know that for all time they now rest on opposite sides of the Irish Sea, Welsh-born Richard in Dublin and Irish-born Aoife in Wales.
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