2019 Summer Reading Library Book Haul

Summer is here! In the library world, summer means summer reading and summer reading is here.

Courtesy of CSLP

Every year, CLSP (collaborative summer reading program), a system of "grassroot consortium of states" who, together, set up a summer reading program that provides summer reading materials to adults, young adults and children.  According to the ALA, summer reading started back in 1890s as a way to encourage students on summer break from school to read.  If you're looking for more information, you can click here.

The CLSP Summer Reading Theme for this year is "A Universe of Stories"

Jessica and I happily work in libraries and educating individuals on the benefits and services that are offered at the library make us somewhat passionate about summer reading. (Oddly enough, library card sign up month is in September- AFTER Summer Reading occurs...)

We encourage everyone out there to go to your local library and get a library card.  Not only can you check out books but your library has services that allow you to borrow e-books plus audiobooks and magazines! 

In honor of Summer Reading, this post will be a library book haul - all of the books that I have picked up from my library within the last week! 

- Nothing Left to Burn by Heather Ezell (you can find the review for that book here)

- Until Friday Night by Abbi Glines (review for this book is here)

- Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey (you can find that review here)

-The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

- D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis and Helped Win World War II by Sarah  Rose

- La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World by Dianne Hales

This library book haul has a balance of adult fiction (including mystery and romance), YA fiction and non-fiction!  Not to toot my horn here, but I think I did a pretty good job. 

Fix Her Up seems like it will be a cute rom-com story.  La Passione will hopefully indulge my new found desire to one day travel to Italy.  Until Friday Night was picked because I needed a good YA book to read.  I picked Nothing Left to Burn because of the cover art and because being a volunteer EMT myself, I found it intriguing to read a story featuring a volunteer firefighter. D-Day Girls was added to be TBR pile because MB and I will be touring Fort Miles in August and I wanted to learn a little more about WWII and D-Day. Lastly, The Widows of Malabar Hill was checked out because it was a recommendation on my Tailored Books Recommendation list! (But *shhhh*, don't tell Jessica that I subscribed out of curiosity....)

I hope this inspires at least one person who reads this post to go out to the library and see what's going on! Go complete the summer reading challenge at your library.

See you guys soon!

~ Jillian