{"id":29667,"date":"2021-08-05T13:32:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/?p=29667"},"modified":"2021-08-05T13:32:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:32:22","slug":"book-recommendations-to-keep-your-summer-sizzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/book-recommendations-to-keep-your-summer-sizzling\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Recommendations to keep your summer sizzling!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you joined the summer reading fun yet? Here are a few more books recommended by our summer reading reviewers:<\/p>\n

Lottery<\/i> by Patricia Wood \u2013 Mary Jo R. says this is a great summer read! \u201cWhat\u2019s your number? Perry L. Crandall\u2019s number is 76. You have to be 75 to be mentally retarded \u2013 he is just slow. Perry is 31 years old and lives with his Gram. They have a routine \u2013 bingo, words, the lottery, and lists. They keep lists for everything \u2013 especially what they will do if they win the lottery. Gram dies suddenly and Perry adjusts to his new life. His friends, Keith, Gary, and Cherry help him. Then he wins the lottery and everyone wants to be his \u201cfriend,\u201d especially his older brothers. They want to \u201ccon\u201d him out of his money. With the help of Keith and Gary, Perry outwits his brothers and gets what he wants \u2013 but so do his brothers. Read this book to find out how. So \u2013 what\u2019s your number?\u201d<\/p>\n

Braiding Sweetgrass<\/i> by Robin Wall Kimmerer \u2013 Amy G. describes this book as \u201cpart poetry, part memoir, part naturalist guidebook, and part Indigenous wisdom. Beautifully written, Wall Kimmerer, an Environmental Scientist and Potawatomi, offers a love letter to nature and her culture between the pages of her book.\u201d<\/p>\n

I Heard That Song Before<\/i> by Mary Higgins Clark \u2013 Christine M. says \u201cReading a Mary Higgins Clark mystery is like putting on a comfy pair of socks: easy to read, good for guessing an ending, not a brain-taxing experience. It’s a cozy read and the appropriate people live happily ever after.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Lottery:\"Braiding\"I<\/p>\n

What books do you recommend? Fill out a short book review to enter and our summer reading prize raffle \u2013 the contest is open until August 14! You can enter online<\/a> or in person at any Bethlehem Area Public Library or Bookmobile stop.<\/p>\n

Our most recent winner is Karen G., who won a gift certificate to Town & Country Lanes. Thank you to the Friends of the Bethlehem Area Public Library for donating the prize!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you joined the summer reading fun yet? Here are a few more books recommended by our summer reading reviewers: Lottery by Patricia Wood \u2013 Mary Jo R. says this is a great summer read! \u201cWhat\u2019s your number? Perry L. Crandall\u2019s number is 76. You have to be 75 to be mentally retarded \u2013 he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295,5045],"tags":[299,5395,5651,298],"class_list":["post-29667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-recommendations","category-summer-reading","tag-adult-summer-reading","tag-book-reviews","tag-reading","tag-summer-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVu5I-7Iv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29668,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29667\/revisions\/29668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}