Join Victoria for a summer full of scares! Each month during the summer we will be reading a horror novel and discussing it on the last Thursday of each month. Copies will be available at the reference desk. Reader beware: since this is a horror book club, some of the themes could be disturbing to some readers. Discretion is advised.
This month’s book is The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she’d be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck—enough to get her off-planet and on the trail of her mother—meant she’d get a skilled surface team, monitoring her suit and environment, keeping her safe. Keeping her sane.
Instead, she got Em.
Em sees nothing wrong with controlling Gyre’s body with drugs or withholding critical information to “ensure the smooth operation” of her expedition. Em knows all about Gyre’s falsified credentials, and has no qualms using them as a leash—and a lash. And Em has secrets, too . . .
As Gyre descends, little inconsistencies—missing supplies, unexpected changes in the route, and, worst of all, shifts in Em’s motivations—drive her out of her depths. Lost and disoriented, Gyre finds her sense of control giving way to paranoia and anger. On her own in this mysterious, deadly place, surrounded by darkness and the unknown, Gyre must overcome more than just the dangerous terrain and the Tunneler which calls underground its home if she wants to make it out alive—she must confront the ghosts in her own head.
Registration Required
11 am August 31
In-person in the computer lab
Join Victoria for a summer full of scares! Each month during the summer we will be reading a horror novel and discussing it on the last Thursday of each month. Copies will be available at the reference desk. Reader beware: since this is a horror book club, some of the themes could be disturbing to some readers. Discretion is advised.
This month’s book is The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
Touring their prospective suburban home, Julie and James are stopped by a noise. Deep and vibrating, like throat singing. Ancient, husky, and rasping, but underwater. “That’s just the house settling,” the real estate agent assures them with a smile. He is wrong.
The move–prompted by James’s penchant for gambling and his general inability to keep his impulses in check–is quick and seamless; both Julie and James are happy to start afresh. But this house, which sits between a lake and a forest, has its own plans for the unsuspecting couple. As Julie and James try to establish a sense of normalcy, the home and its surrounding terrain become the locus of increasingly strange happenings. The framework– claustrophobic, riddled with hidden rooms within rooms–becomes unrecognizable, decaying before their eyes. Stains are animated on the wall–contracting, expanding–and map themselves onto Julie’s body in the form of painful, grisly bruises.
Like the house that torments the troubled married couple living within its walls, The Grip of It oozes with palpable terror and skin-prickling dread. Its architect, Jac Jemc, meticulously traces Julie and James’s unsettling journey through the depths of their new home as they fight to free themselves from its crushing grip.
Registration Required
11 am July 27
In-person in the computer lab
Which one will YOU read first?
The 2014 Nutmeg Books arrived on the shelves of the Avon Free Public Library Wednesday May 1st!!!!
The new Nutmeg Books have titles that are funny, sad, scary and full of adventure.
The Candymakers by Wendy Mass
Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman by Meg Wolitzer
The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan Long-Shang
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Mike Stellar: Nerves of Steel by K.A. Holt
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
Saving Armpit by Natalie Hyde
Wild Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff
and Wildfire Run by Dee Garretson.
These ten new titles are for children in grades 4th-6th.
Each book can be found on the Nutmeg Shelf in the fiction section of the Library.
The 2014 nominees were chosen by kids from Connecticut just like you, we will vote in April of 2014 for the best book and that book will become the 2014 Winner.
On May 15th the 2013 Winner will be announced.
The kids from Avon voted the best book Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
Mrs. Moody is our Nutmeg Expert Extraordinaire. Let’s find out what she’s been up to:
Q. Hello Mrs. Moody. What have you been reading for the Nutmeg Book Discussion?
A. Where the Mountain meets the Moon. It’s about this girl, Minli, who is trying to find the old man in the moon so that she can bring fortune to her family.
Q. What kinds of things did you do in your book discussion?
A. We ate oolong noodles with chopsticks and we drank green tea and ate swedish fish. We answered round robin trivia based on the book and we had a raffle!
Q. Who is that in the glass bowl?
A. It’s my pet fish – Jeffrey. He was at the booktalk.
Q. Grace Lin is a wonderful author, what other books has she written?
A. She wrote The Year of the Dog, The Year of the Rat, Dumpling Days and now she has a new book called Starry River of the sky.
Q. Wow, what book will you be discussing next?
A. We will be discussing The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick. On March 14th we will have our discussion (and pizza too, Jeffrey will be there).
Goodbye Mrs. Moody!
