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West Vancouver Memorial Harry Greenwood, Chair West Vancouver Memorial Library Board Summer Reading - Not Just for Kids! The Library provides some wonderful programs and clubs to keep children excited about reading through the summer. By reading for at least 15 minutes for 50 days, the young people can earn a medal. I think it sounds like a worthy goal for all of us. The time I spend reading always adds richness to my life. So what am I reading this summer? Two years ago I spent a week at Hollyhock in a Writers' Workshop with Sharon Butala. The topic was writing a memoir and the material we covered was just the tip of the iceberg. I am beginning to organize myself to read and reread much of the material from the reading list that Sharon provided. I am now reading, for the third time, Vivian Gornick's The Situation and the Story: the Art of the Personal Narrative, a very useful tool. While the Library does not own this title, they do have Fierce Attachments, the acclaimed memoirist's classic exploration of her relationship with her mother. In addition, I am reading Doris Grumach's Extra Innings: A Memoir. Grumbach's book begins on September 15, 1991, the day her first memoir, Coming into the End Zone, first appeared in print. It describes her memories, philosophical musings, reading, work, the people she cares about, and her home in Maine. In addition, I look forward to relaxing in between with my usual mystery thriller. Attention adults! These books are not just for teens Crossover novels are a new phenomenon in publishing these days. These books are marketed for both adults and teens. Sometimes the publishers cannot seem to make up their minds. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, was published in England as a young adult and an adult novel, but in North America, it is an adult book. The Book Thief, by Mark Zusak is considered adult in Australia, but is young adult in North America. Though many older teens migrate to the adult section for their reading material, how many adults have thought of visiting the Teen area of our library to find a good book? Here are a few recent titles that qualify as sophisticated and literary, and might well bring adults back to the Teen area for more: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Young Liesel first meets Death, the book's witty, articulate and forthright narrator, when he comes to take her brother. An ambitious novel, this juxtaposes Liesel's experience of the horrors of World War II and the redeeming potential she discovers in words and books. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M. T. Anderson Octavian Nothing, a bright young African American, is subjected to extensive science experimentation, until he escapes his misguided captors and is swept up in the events leading up to the American Revolution. This has the flavour of science fiction set in the past. www.westvanlibrary.ca