Reviewer Spotlight

Branch: North County Regional

This month we honor Gloria, a librarian from North County Regional Library. She is a voracious reader who has contributed several fiction and non-fiction reviews for adults to Reader's Club. Here is what she has to share with us:

"Books, Books, Books… Books are my life! Well, not totally because I now have five super grandchildren but books and reading do play a big part in my life. I have always been an avid reader. I remember walking to the public library on a school field trip when I was in second grade. Even when I didn't work at the library, I would go there at least once a week. And what a Bargain! If you live in Mecklenburg county, you can get a free library card! Wow, what a great deal. Where else you can go and get something so valuable for free?

My reading interests cover a wide range. I read thrillers, popular fiction, non-fiction, true crime, adventure, and occasionally young adult fiction. I love to discover new authors that I haven't read before that have written several books. I also listen to audio books most of the time. Typically I'm reading several books at the same time and listening to another. That is unfortunately what happens when you work at the library and continue to put books on hold; they seem to all come to you at the same time. I just listened to To Kill a Mockingbird (our Big Read for this year) and Robinson Crusoe and am currently listening to Treasure Island. Somehow, I missed these over the years. I am also currently enjoying a fascinating book that just came out called The Lost City of Z : a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. This is probably my favorite kind of read - true adventure that examines the actions of people.

Some of my favorite books are The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The Ruins: a Novel by Scott Smith, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, To Dance with the White Dog by Terry Kay, Judas Child by Carol O'Connell, The Perfect Crime by Peter Abrahams, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Undercurrents by Ridley Pearson, Last Breath : cautionary tales from the limits of human endurance by Peter Stark, and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.

Authors I particularly like and typically put on hold to receive their new titles are Ridley Pearson, John Sandford, Jeffery Deaver, Michael Crichton (now deceased), Phillip Margolin, Sue Henry, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, John Hart, Michael Connelly and Harlan Coben."

Thanks Gloria!