RFPL Reads

Visit this page each month to see what RFPL staff are reading! This page contains the same content as our RFPL Reads blog, which you can also find at www.rfplreads.wordpress.com

Mary Ann’s March Recommendation - Dead Father’s Club by Matt Haig “A  modern ghost/mystery  story told by a young boy whose father died.  The boy’s view of events is very amusing.   Lots of fun-to-find references to Hamlet.  The boy narrator on the Play-away  is wonderful. A Play-away is a small, pre-loaded digital book-  just put in earphones and press play!  Stop in [...]

Joanna’s March Recommendation - Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani “Author of Lucia, Lucia and the Valentine series, Trigiani steps into the world of teen fiction with Viola in Reel Life.  It is 14-year-old Viola Chesterton’s worst nightmare, plucked from her home and school in Brooklyn, New York and sent to boarding school in South Bend, Indiana while her [...]

Claudia’s March Recommendation - Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticant “The Haitian-born American writer tells her moving family story centering around her closest family members–her father and her uncle.  She tells of joining her parents and younger siblings in New York at age 12, while fearing for her remaining family, including her beloved uncle, in Haiti.  Her personal story is [...]

Sue Q’s March Recommendation - Lit: a memoir by Mary Karr “As in her previous memoirs (Liars Club, Cherry) Mary Karr certainly doesn’t hold back much. She is shockingly honest about her self destructive slide into alcoholism and the insecurities, hidden demons and family tendencies that began in her rough East Texas childhood and unfortunately surfaced as she became a mother [...]

Katie’s March Recommendation - This Book is Overdue!: How librarians and cybrarians can save us all by Marilyn Johnson “As a newly graduated Librarian, this book intrigued me. When I started reading it, I learned about a lot of situations and librarians that I didn’t know about before. Marilyn Johnson isn’t a librarian which makes this book even more interesting. [...]

Sam’s March Recommendation - Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins “The sequel to Hunger Games, this book delivers just as much suspense, action, and intrigue.   I couldn’t put it down and eagerly await the 3rd book in the trilogy, Mockingjay,  which is out August 24th.” Read About It Request It You can find this book in the library at Call # TEEN FICTION COLLINS [...]

Sue Y.’s February Recommendation - The Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond “My new favorite book is  The Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond. She meets a great guy, marries him, and moves to his ranch. This is where the cooking takes place. Its a true story, and she cooks her own food at home and takes photos of all the steps  to [...]

Joan’s February Recommendation - Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner “It is a fast read that really makes you think about how the world works. Freakonomics explores the oddities in the economic world, and is written in plain English. It’s informative, fun, thought-provoking, and provides surprisingly insightful answers for questions such as: ‘What do school teachers and [...]

Joanna’s February Recommendation - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams “This month I read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.  A science fiction classic, this book and subsequent series titles title follow Arthur Dent and intergalactic, rag-tag group of alien and robot friends as they hitchhike through the galaxy trying to stay out of trouble.  A [...]

Blaise’s February Recommendation - My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari “Esfandiari, visiting her mother in Iran in 2006, gets accused of conspiring against the Iranian regime and is held prisoner in Iran’s Evin Prison.  She tells her story, interweaving it with the history of modern Iran, the Iranian Revolution and the changing relationship [...]