At Oceanside Library, we are super excited to be hosting an amazing line up of authors this fall. Best selling authors Lisa See, Craig Davidson, and Ellen Meister will each be visiting us virtually in the next few months. They’ll be discussing some of our favorite books and giving us a sneak peek as to what might be new to the shelves in 2021. These events are open to all! Visit our event calendar for the online links.
And don’t forget to tell your friends and share with your bookclubs. Bookclubs that register with us, will have the chance to win an exclusive bookclub gift during our visit with Lisa See on October 8th. Click here to sign up!
Want to read some of these authors before they visit? No problem!   Browsing and borrowing and curbside pickup are available or give us a call and we’ll be sure to help you get ready reading! 

We’ve picked Attachments by Rainbow Rowell as our next book discussion book. It’s a laugh out loud 1999 office drama, centered around Lincoln, a newly hired Internet Security Officer, whose job requires him to read his coworkers emails. Enter Beth and Jennifer, two email chatty coworkers who continue to break company email rules with their ongoing banter, and Lincoln just can’t seem to stop reading it.

Rowell has woven a tale of friendship, love, trust, and hope, using authentic 90’s voices in a time when the world was just on the brink of information overload. It’s a quick read and  is available for download on the Libby app. Join us on August 19 at 7:30pm for “On The Same Page” with Debbie and Nadine, as we discuss the novel and our favorite memories from 1999 and Y2K. 

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Amy and Sonia are our first Making Waves Summer Reading Club winners! It’s easy to enter. Just rate and review the books you are reading on our online Making Waves page, and you will instantly be entered for our weekly raffle! 

Do you love chatting about books as much as we do? Join Briana and Nadine each Tuesday and Thursday at 2pm for our Virtual Sunroom Book Chat! It’s a great place to meet fellow readers and get tons of terrific book suggestions. Go to our Event Calendar for links!

This Wednesday at 7:30pm Join Debbie and Nadine for the online book discussion for The Time Traveler’s Wife. And listen to their new podcast, Books & Banter with Deb and Nay and get the scoop on the next discussion.. 

Summer memories are the best, which is why we are going back to some of our favorite summer reads! Click on the flyer to the left and you’ll get to see all the titles we recommend as our Throwback Summer Reads! There are so many great books you may have missed. Summer is the perfect time to catch up – – and best of all, the more you read, the greater your chance of winning our raffles will be. Raffles start soon, so be sure to rate your books as part of our Making Waves summer reading program. There are lots of great things we have in store for you. So keep checking back with us and enjoy all that summer has to offer! 

First, congratulations to Bronna, our winner in this week’s raffle! We have reached nearly 250 reviews since we started our Comfortably Connected Book Club in April. That is sensational! Thank you for participating and for being incredibly awesome during this time we are temporarily closed. We hope that you have enjoyed finding new things to read, listen to, and watch.

But don’t fear… we will be launching our new and exciting “Making Waves Summer Reading” program in just a few weeks, so keep reading and check your email for that announcement!

If you’re looking to know what Oceanside has been reading, here’s a list of the Top 10 Books that were reviewed during the last 6 weeks: 

• 10. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (We love celebs!)
• 9. Becoming by Michelle Obama (Bios are best!)
• 8. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (A Debbie and Nadine selection for February)
• 7. A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum (Available on Overdrive and Libby!)
• 6. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (An Oprah Selection)
• 5. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Now streaming on Hulu!)
• 4. The Wives by Tarryn Fisher (Available on Hoopla! No wait!)
• 3. Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman (now streaming on Netflix)
• 2. This Tender Land by William Kent (Another Deb and Nadine Book Club selection!)
• And the #1 Most Reviewed book by Oceanside is…… 
  • 1. Where the Crawdad’s Sing by Delia Owens (Our Director’s Pick!)

​Please stay safe and keep reading! We’ll be back and Making Waves soon! 
Miss you!
Nadine and Briana