On Friday, February 22, the library held our third Evening for Excellence. This year we celebrated the naming of the Main Library reading room in honor of former director, Mark A. Nesse with a talk by Nancy Pearl entitled the Pleasures and Perils of a Life of Reading. Nancy is the former director of the Seattle Center for the Book, and is now an author and NPR commentor. Some of you may remember Nancy from her previous visits to the Everett Public Library. She always recommends good books to read, and I was pleased that we have almost all of the titles she mentioned on Friday night in our collection.
I made a note of the books she talked about, and thought you might like to check out her suggestions. In no particular order they were:
Paperboy by Pete Dexter
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert by Georgina Howell
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halbertam
In the Woods by Tana French
Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck
Feed by M.T. Anderson
and, anything by Patrick O'Brien, Lee Child, and William Laschner. Someone has already checked out The Towers of Trebizond, so I'll have to wait for that one.
