GREAT READS

I don't usually read books after seeing the movie, but after watching the "Hunger Games" starring Jennifer Lawrence, I was reminded of another movie she starred in; "Winter's Bone." It came out several years ago and was a wonderfully atmospheric movi...

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley had been recommended by several librarians, but still I hesitated. Would I like a mystery with an 11 year-old sleuth? Now I know what I'd been missing. From the very first page I was drawn to ...

We recently started a lunch-time mystery book discussion at the Perryville Branch Library and one of the books I was most eager to share with the group was Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. I had read the book about four years ago at the urging of sev...

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett begins with researcher Marina Singh setting off on a journey to the Amazon. Reluctantly, she has agreed to look into the fate of her colleague and fellow researcher, Anders Eckman. Dr. Eckman perished mysteriously in t...