Last week I mentioned how much I like September, and one of the reasons I think it’s a special month is library-related: September is Library Card Sign-Up Month. If you already have a library card, thank you and well done! If you don’t have a library card, this is the perfect month to get one. There are two main card types: the Everything Card and the eCard. The Everything Card lets you do, well, everything! This means you have complete access to our physical and digital resources. Just bring a current photo ID and proof of address to one of our staffed library locations (visit www.fvrl.org to see our locations) and apply for a card. If you find that you are mostly interested in the library’s digital resources (e-books, eAudio and eResources which include genealogy, hobbies, language learning, magazines, newspapers and much, much more), you don’t even have to come into the library to apply for a card. Register for the eCard online and get immediate access to a world of digital resources. Hooray!
Once you have a card the reading possibilities are endless. But perhaps “endless” is too daunting, as in “Whoa, there are so many choices! I don’t know where to begin!” I totally get this, and that’s why I’m providing a starting point with the reading list below. This week I’m recommending Pulitzer Prize winners in fiction and general nonfiction from 2015-2019. Many of the titles are available in multiple formats which I’ve indicated in parentheses at the end of each title.
So, get out your library card — or sign up for one — and check out a prize winner (or three or four). Remember, “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body” (Joseph Addison).
2019:
“Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America,” by Eliza Griswold. (Also available in e-book and eAudio formats.)
