Summer reading

Today I dropped by the library looking for some summer
reading and happened to notice a shelf with some shopping bags full of books.  Some of them were book club sets, a dozen of the same books geared to book clubs who want to discuss a particular title. But other bags were full of varied books, some of which piqued my interest.

It turns out that these are something new by our Victoria library: Staff picks to go. The librarians collect six books and a video on a particular theme and you can check them all out at the same time. Instead of 3 weeks, you get six weeks to plough through them. Wow, what a cool concept.

There were several selections including religious and fantasy and a few others, but I chose the collection called "Search for Fulfilment" because the titles spoke to me.





Here's what was in the bag.




It turns out that I have already read (and enjoyed) two of these books, plus the Harold Fry one that the videos are based on. But that leaves four interesting books and the possibility of ten hours of video.  Isn't that great?

And on the back of the list of books in this bag, they include a whole page of other books on the same theme.

I'm really impressed with the Victoria Public Library. And I will be back for more of these staff pick collections.

I have read "Broken for You" by Stephanie Kallos and loved it. I will be looking up these other ones as well.  Because, when I think about it, one of my very favourite genres has to be books about the search for fulfillment.
Not too sure what that says about me. I don't feel unfulfilled but I do love reading about the process.

"A Thousand Days in Venice" sounds like a wonderful escape.

Hooray for the Victoria Public Library.