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Last Call to Pick the Next Milton Reads Book: MR18

November 30, 2017

After reviewing dozens of titles nominated by the public, the Milton Public Library is pleased to announce its finalists for “Milton Reads 2018: One Book; One Town.”

Now in its seventh year, the town-wide reading initiative invites Milton residents to participate in a shared cultural activity by exploring the same book together as a community. 

Throughout March 2018, Milton Reads will include a range of free programs for adults and families sponsored by the Friends of the Milton Library.

The public is invited to vote in person at the library or online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MiltonReads2018.

And the nominees are:

One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newark, New Jersey, Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly sat atop a flagpole for twelve days, and in Chicago, the gangster Al Capone was tightening his grip on bootlegging. The first true “talking picture,” Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, was filmed, forever changing the motion picture industry.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
“An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline’s imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe.”–Booklist, starred review

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour? To answer these questions, space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations.

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Amor Towles skillfully transports us to The Metropol, the famed Moscow hotel where movie stars and Russian royalty hobnob, where Bolsheviks plot revolutions and intellectuals discuss the merits of contemporary Russian writers, where spies spy, thieves thieve and the danger of twentieth century Russia lurks outside its marbled walls. It’s also where wealthy Count Alexander Rostov lives under house arrest for a poem deemed incendiary by the Bolsheviks, and meets Nina. Nina is a precocious and wide-eyed young girl who holds the keys to the entire hotel, wonders what it means to be a princess, and will irrevocably change his life.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The classic American coming of age novel.Pick a book.


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