September Activity Calendar Reads

Observe a daily holiday by reading a book!

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Book cover for "City of girls"
Star rating for City of girls
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Notes:
SEPTEMBER 18 IS NATIONAL FIRST LOVE DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO ROMANCE FICTION
Description:
"[A] unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance....
Book cover for "The hobbit, or, There and back again"
Star rating for The hobbit, or, There and back again
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Notes:
SEPTEMBER 22 IS HOBBIT DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO HOBBIT-RELATED FICTION
Description:
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
Book cover for "The institute"
Star rating for The institute
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Notes:
SEPTEMBER 21 IS STEPHEN KING'S BIRTHDAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO WRITTEN BY STEPHEN KING
Description:
"In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same...
Book cover for "Labor Day"
Star rating for Labor Day
Average Rating:
2.3 stars
Notes:
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023 IS LABOR DAY
Description:
Relates a story of love, sexual passion, painful adolescence, and devastating betrayal as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy--and the man he later becomes--looking back on the events of a single long, hot, and life-altering weekend.
Book cover for "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"
Star rating for Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
SEPTEMBER 12 IS NATIONAL VIDEO GAMES DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO VIDEO-GAME-RELATED FICTION
Description:
"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
Book cover for "The weird sisters"
Star rating for The weird sisters
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Notes:
SEPTEMBER 9 IS WONDERFUL WEIRDOS DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO FEATURE "WEIRD" CHARACTERS
Description:
Unwillingly brought together to care for their ailing mother, three sisters who were named after famous Shakespearean characters discover that everything they have been avoiding may prove more worthwhile than expected.