Summer Tales – End of Story?
As we are closing to wrap up our Summer Reading program this week with a series of blog posts with our reflections, first, here is a list of findings participants … Read More
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Summer Tales Update: In the Homestretch
Following up on our successful Neil Gaiman discussion, the Summer Tales Book Club turned to a classic: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Sleeping and Waking,” a piece about insomnia that straddles the … Read More
Summer Tales with Joyce Carol Oates!
Come hear acclaimed writer Joyce Carol Oates read from and talk about her short story “Where Is Here?”! Oates is a National Book Award winner, a five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one … Read More
Summer Tales Update: Our First Discussion is in the Books!
Over at the Summer Tales project we’ve wrapped up a successful month-long discussion of Neil Gaiman’s short story “How to Talk to Girls at Parties“! Students brought a lot of … Read More
Summer with New Jersey books and authors
Summer in New Jersey? Whether you are staycationing or longing to come back to campus, we’ve got you covered! Browse our summer reading recommendations below until the reopening of Rutgers … Read More
A recap of Session 1 of the Summer Tales Book Club
As hosts of the Summer Tales Book Club reading program delivered in Canvas in the summer of 2020 as a joint initiative of Summer Session and New Brunswick Libraries, we … Read More
Summer Reads: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
(or the peculiar motives to read) It’s no secret that we at Books We Read also host the Summer Tales Book Club, the reading program of the Rutgers Summer Session … Read More
Recommendations: Fiction Books by Queer Black Authors
Going into this week we had planned to write a post to celebrate pride month. However, this week is not a celebration, it is a fight, and it is … Read More
Launching Summer Tales
Books We Read has some exciting news: New Brunswick Libraries and the Department of Continuing Studies have teamed up to launch Summer Tales Book Club, a short story discussion group … Read More
Summer: Time for Audiobooks
Tired of staring at the screen? Finished all the print books at home you had purchased in the past few years? Libraries still closed? How about trying something new? If … Read More