Did you know that Summer Reading Club is no longer just for children? Now called the Summer Reading Challenge, it is open to all ages and participation makes you eligible to win things like a MP3 player, a netbook computer or an eReader. Visit any Fort Worth Library to pick up a Reading Card and get started. The Challenge runs from May 21 to July 31, 2011. Get more information by clicking here.
If you associate summer reading with lighter fair and a supernatural bent then I have just the book for you. Check out Mercedes Lackey’s Trio of Sorcery. I have to admit that this book brought me out of a reading slump of almost 4 months. Since the holidays I haven’t been able to concentrate on anything longer than a magazine article. I started to read several books, but I lost interest before finishing them. What attracted me to this book is the fact that two of the novellas featured some of my favorite characters from books the author wrote in the '80s and '90s. Picking up this book was like finding an old friend, but don't worry if you haven't read her other books. These stories can stand alone.
The first novella “Arcanum 101” features Diana Tregarde. Diana was in 3 previous books – Burning Water, Children of the Night, and Jinx High – but this novella is a prequel to the others. You meet Diana in her neophyte days as a freshman at Harvard in 1970. Diana is asked to assist in finding a kidnapped girl and to debunk a psychic hired by the mother. The 2nd novella, “Drums,” features Jennifer Talldeer who appeared previously in Sacred Ground. In it Talldeer, an Native American shaman, must use clever means to trick an angry Osage Indian spirit from carrying a woman off into the spirit world. The final novella, “Ghost in the Machine” features Ellen McBridge, a computer programmer and techno-shaman. She thwarts an evil wendigo in a popular computer game from transcending computer code and entering the real world.
If you are looking for the supernatural verging on horror or a sexy paranormal romance, this is not the book for you. But if you want interesting, strong female characters with fantasy and magic thrown in, this just might be the book to start off your summer reading.
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