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Dive into a good beach read this summer with recommendations from two local librarians, Jen Ohzourk and Jennifer Alexander.
What makes a good summer read? For St. Louis Public Library regional branch manager Jen Ohzourk, it’s a book that is captivating, escapist, and easy to put down and pick back up again later perhaps after a swim or bike ride.
On Friday’s
St. Louis on the Air, Ohzourk and St. Louis County Library Collection Development Specialist Jennifer Alexander shared their favorite beach reads.
JEN OHZOURK S PICKS:
“Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake” by Alexis J. Hall (2021) “If you like watching The Great British Baking Show and wonder about the real lives of contestants, this quick-paced, fun romance is for you! Single mum Rosaline is competing each week and also falling for another contestant, Alain. However, fellow baker Harry may be just the friend she needs.”
by Christopher Buehlman (Gollancz £16.99, 416 pp)
You might think that a naked, tattooed, lady assassin being vomited from the belly of a blind tomcat might cause the gentle reader to pause for a beat, but no: it’s business as usual in this pulsating, gruesome, funny debut.
Knitting together sea voyages and shipwrecks, murder and leg theft, base magic and a looming, existential, goblin-related threat, are a trio of mismatched companions: Kinch, the eponymous blacktongued thief; Galva, an enigmatic Amazon with a giant, killer raven at her disposal; and Norrigal, a novice witchlet with surprising powers.
Their mission? It’s political, complicated and pretty much everyone wants to stop them achieving it. But ’nuff said: read, enjoy and cast a spell for a sequel.
After the success of 2015’s
The Martian (directed by Ridley Scott no less) it’s little wonder that the world is hyped to read the next novel from
The Martian’s author, Andy Weir. Luckily, the wait is now over and Weir’s latest novel
, Project Hail Mary is out this month (and already optioned for a movie adaptation!).
The novel follows Ryland Grace, the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission – and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.