Book Review and Comments from Summer Reading Program Readers

The Adult Summer Reading Program at the Adrian Public Library began last week and readers are off and reading! It's great when our readers take the time to complete the Book Review & Comment cards for the books that they have read. Here are some titles and comments if you are looking for some recommended reading:

Blood Trail by C. J. Box
*Highly recommend
*A real page turner
"One of C. J. Box's best, with Joe Pickett."


Phantom Prey by John Sandford
*Highly recommend
*A real page turner
"Another winner in the Prey series."

For All My Tomorrows by Debbie Macomber
"Believable people in the book. I could relate. Slow going."

Comfort food by Kate Jacobs
*Light and entertaining
*Highly recommend

Stop in the library and sign up for the Adult Summer Reading Program "Pollinate Your Mind".
Local businesses have provided great prizes for reading incentives. Weekly raffles begin June 21st and a Grand Prize drawing will be held August 23rd. Fill out a Book Review & Comment card and you automatically enter a Special Prize Drawing to be held August 23rd.

The Welsh Girl

Author Peter Ho Davies, U of Michigan creative writing faculty, published The Welsh Girl, his first novel in 2007. The Welsh Girl takes place in remote northern Wales during the end of World War II. Esther, a young barmaid and daughter of a local farmer, dreams of escaping her provincial life and abusive boyfriend for London. In a POW camp built in the same town, a German soldier, Karsten, struggles with his decision to surrender himself and his men to the enemy. Karsten and Eshter find each other, fall in love, deal with issues of loyalty and search for their place in a world filled with turmoil.