Reader's Club Email Newsletter:

It’s Our 5th Birthday!
November Feature: “Too Good to Put Down”
Meet the Author: Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun
Reviewer Spotlight: Jeff G., North County Regional Library
Celebrity Reviewer: Wynonna Judd
Librarian's Choice Award: Literature Awards

This month Reader’s Club celebrates its fifth birthday. Reader’s Club began with a team of three librarians and a few reviews (mostly written by those three librarians) in November 1998. Since then, the Reader’s Club Team has grown to eight, and our database contains nearly 2,000 reviews of fiction and non-fiction books for adults and teens. Most of our reviews are written by staff from every branch and department of the Library, including Circulation, Automation Support, Information Services, and Management. The Reader’s Club Team would like to sincerely thank everyone who makes Reader’s Club possible, including all of you who visit Reader’s Club.

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Are you the nail-biting, thrill-seeking reader that needs action and excitement on every page and can’t wait to turn the page? If this describes you then check out the titles in this month’s feature, including books by authors Dan Brown, John Case, Harlan Coben, and Jeffrey Deaver. This list of authors will give you hours of exciting reading--better than watching an action movie any day!

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This month Reader’s Club interviews Frances Mayes, the author of three best-selling non-fiction books about Italy. The No. 1 New York Times bestseller, Under the Tuscan Sun, remained on the Times bestsellers' list for more than two years and is now the inspiration for the movie starring Academy Award® nominee Diane Lane. A widely published poet and essayist, Mayes has also written five books of poetry and her first novel, Swan. Formerly a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University, Mayes now devotes herself full time to writing.

Read this month’s interview with Frances Mayes.

Meet Jeff from North County Regional Library, an avid reader and reviewer of sci fi, fantasy and horror.

According to Jeff, “If I had to choose between watching TV, listening to music, and reading, I would have to choose reading. Even though I would hate to give up the others, nothing passes the time like a good book.”

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Have you ever wondered which books have inspired well-known people? Take a look at our Celebrity Reviews and find out. Here’s what Wynonna Judd told us when asked “What is your favorite book?”:

“The Bible. Throughout my life, I have many times been in search of answers for the questions I ask about my journey, about my purpose and the reasons to believe in miracles even when I ask, "why?" The stories of hope, of God's love and His promise of eternal life keeps me believing! Personally and professionally I am never without God's word. It has healed me many times. Peace.”

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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps most fatal to true happiness," wrote Bertrand Russell the winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature. This month’s Librarian’s Choice Award goes to Literature Awards which primarily focus on the Nobel Prize for Literature from 1901-2002, and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction going back to 1918.