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Summer Library Challenge, Week Eleven
 
Welcome to week eleven of the Lake Oswego Public Library's Summer Library Challenge! It's been a very warm week, so we hope you can sit back with a cool beverage and a good book. 
 
Weekly Drawing Winner
Congratulations to Marlene!
 
Marlene is this week's weekly drawing winner! Congratulations!
 
Please be sure to register online and log your reading minutes at lopl.org/summer in order to be entered into our weekly and grand prize drawings. Prizes include gift cards to Powell's Books and a grand prize winner will receive a two nights stay at the Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport, Oregon.
 
Winners will be notified directly. 
 
Summer Library Challenge 2023
 
How is the Summer Library Challenge going for you?

If you are interested in sharing your SLC goals, what you're reading right now, or a favorite reading nook or book, please email us at either ayokoyama@lakeoswego.city or ssedell@lakeoswego.city! We would love to feature you in this newsletter. 
 
SLC Sign-up Kits
 
Have you picked up your complimentary Summer Library Challenge sign-up kit yet? Each kit comes with a book journal, LOPL vinyl sticker, a scavenger hunt form, a coupon to the Booktique, and special SLC 2023 message magnets. Claim your prize at the Fiction Desk on the main floor of the Library.
 
 
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Carolyn Wood
 
Last week, LOPL hosted a writing workshop led by Carolyn Wood. The author of several memoirs, Carolyn Wood gained fame as a 1960 Olympic gold medalist in swimming; at fourteen she became one of a handful of child athletes to win gold. A lifelong Oregonian, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon (BA English 1967) and Portland State University (MSW 1979, MS Education 1980), and taught high school English, literature, and composition for over thirty-five years. Wood is a member of the Oregon State Sports Hall of Fame, a fellow of the Northwest Writing Project, and a past participant in the Centrum, Fishtrap, and Banff Writers writing communities. Her work has appeared in Teachers as Writers, Elohi Gadugi Journal, REI Co-op Journal, Women Who Write, and Curve Magazine. Her first memoir, Tough Girl, was awarded the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award by the Independent Book Publishers Association and the 2019 Buck Dawson Authors Award by the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
 
Watch here to see her presentation for the Third Tuesday Author series from 2021. You can find her books here. 
 
 
Tough girl : lessons in courage and heart from Olympic gold to the Camino de Santiago
by Carolyn Wood

On a solo pilgrimage to walk the 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago in an attempt to reclaim her "inner tough girl" Carolyn Wood recalls the many triumphs and struggles of her life: the path to become a young Olympic athlete, coming out as gay in the 1970s after a brief marriage and motherhood, and the disillusionment and loss she experiences when a 30-year relationship suddenly comes to an end.
Reading Inspiration
Anti-Beach Reads
 
As lovely as the idea of the beach and a book good enough to steal your gaze from a stunning body of water is, this list is for those who'd rather read inside (in an air-conditioned building and big, comfy chair), where they're safe from sand and/or saltwater ruining their print book or ereader, and who prefer long, complicated, dramatic tales with no promise of a happy ending.
 
Blue skies : a novel
by T. Coraghessan Boyle

When a social media influencer buys a Burmese python from her local pet shop, she sets in motion a series of increasingly dire events that ensnares her entire family in the new novel by the author of World's End.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride

When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
The new earth : a novel
by Jess Row

Demanding that her mother, father and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more for her wedding, Winter Wilcox and her fractured Jewish family must face the harms of the past and decide if they can ever reconcile in the face of humanity's uncertain future. 50,000 first printing.
Silver nitrate
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Helping a cult horror director shoot the missing scene from his magic film that was never finished to lift a curse, sound editor Montserrat and her best friend Tristán start seeing strange things and must unravel the mystery of this film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city.
Sivulliq: Ancestor
by Lily H. Tuzroyluke

In the spring of 1893, arctic Alaska is devastated by smallpox. Kayaliruk knows it is time to light the funeral pyres and leave their home. Ibai, an African American whaler, grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts among the long-standing whaling industry. The lives of Kayaliruk and Ibai become intertwined on this journey, both witnessing colonial horrors upon their Peoples.
Upcoming Events
We’ve been hosting optional Adult Summer Library Challenge programs in support of this year's SLC theme Find Your Voice. Be sure to join us for our final get-together this summer.
 
SLC Final Book Discussion
Sunday, August 27 1:00-3:00
Come celebrate your SLC wins with Librarians Alicia & Shannon! Snacks provided.
 
Happy Reading!