If you're looking for a smart, irreverent and witty summer read about women of a certain age, Elinor Lipman's The View from Penthouse B should fit the bill.   When Gwen's beloved husband dies, Margot, her recently divorced older sister, invites Gwen to move into her luxurious West Village apartment.   While somewhat of an "odd" couple, the two are bound by sisterly love as they seek to reinvent themselves in often hilarious and sometimes touching ways.

Today is the first day of our Adult Summer Reading Program.  Submit an entry form for every book you read and every audiobook you listen too, and you'll be eligible for one of weekly prize baskets.  Entries can be made online or pick up paper entry forms next time you're in the library. 

Here is NPR's Summer Books 2013 list as selected by their critics.  There are lots of good titles on this list!

For Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce fans, here is an interesting video clip of an interview with Sylvia Beach, owner of the Parisian bookstore Shakespeare & Company  that was a hangout for Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce.  In it, she talks about her relationship with the two literary greats.

The Art Forger by Barbara Shapiro is our newest addition to our Book Club Corner titles.  The library along with Books on the Common and The Aldrich Contemporary Art  Museum will be co-sponsoring an author talk with Ms. Shapiro on July 11th at 7 PM.  The talk will take place at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.  Please register on the library's website if you plan to attend.

We've added three more titles to our Book Club Corner:  Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, The Round House by Louise Erdrich, and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.  If you would like to reserve any of these titles for a book group discussion contact Karen Kazzi, Inter-Library Loans, 203-438-2282 x 1011 or kkazzi@ridgefieldlibrary.org.

Louise Penny has done it again.  For the fifth time, she has won the Agatha Award for the best novel of the year for an entry her Inspector Armand Gamache mystery series.  The latest entry, The Beautiful Mystery, takes this year's prize.