Jax’s Comments (group member since Jan 02, 2024)

Jax’s comments from the Jax Stacks Reading Challenge group.

Kinsey wrote: "How do you find it??" Open the Libby app, click on the menu button (the three lines at the bottom) and click on your Jacksonville Public Library card (you may have more than one). Then, you're on the Library's main Libby page. From there, you can browse several collections, some created by Libby... but many of them curated by your Jacksonville Public Library staff. Right now, there's one called "Jax Stacks - A book of poetry, essays and short stories" with 40 titles. We try to change these up every month. Hope that helps!

Jeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of three novels — Almost Snow White, winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards; Hating Heidi Foster, winner of the 2013 Readers Favorite Book Award for young adult literature; and The Emancipation of Evan Walls, winner of the 2020 National Indie Excellence Award for African American fiction, winner of the 2019 Readers Favorite Book Award, winner of the 2019 American Bookfest Best Book Award and a Shelf Unbound 2019 Notable Book. So, there are lots of great options here for "A book by a 2024 Lit Chat author."

He joins us live at Pablo Creek Regional Library on January 31 from 7-8 p.m. to talk about his upcoming new release: Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way.

Register for FREE: https://jaxpubliclibrary.libnet.info/...

Can't make it in person? The interview will also be live-streamed via Zoom. An audience Q&A will follow the interview. Stay after the program for a book signing, with books available for sale on-site from The Bookmark.

Is anybody doing Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge?

Number 14 is: "Read a book by an author with an upcoming event (virtual or in person) and then attend the event." They're talking about Lit Chats!

Find upcoming Lit Chat Author Talks and Interviews coming to a Library near you over on our Events Calendar:
https://jaxpubliclibrary.libnet.info/...

Check out the Read Harder Challenge categories at:
https://bookriot.com/read-harder-2024/

The New York Times bestselling author of the 2022 memoir, I Came All This Way To Meet You, is coming all the way from New Orleans to meet you at Jacksonville Public Library for two back-to-back bookish events!

Lit Chat Interview with Jami Attenberg on Saturday, January 20, from 2-3 p.m. live at the University Park Branch Library (and live on Zoom)
Link to register: https://jaxpubliclibrary.libnet.info/...

Writer's Lab: Put Your Creativity First on Saturday, January 20, from 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the University Park Branch Library
Link to register: https://jaxpubliclibrary.libnet.info/...

You might recognize Jami Attenberg from her debut collection of stories, Instant Love, or one of her six other celebrated works of fiction. Among her many accolades, Kirkus dubbed her the “poet laureate of difficult families" for her most recent novel, All This Could Be Yours. Attenberg is also the creator of the worldwide literary movement #1000wordsofsummer.

In 2024, she's set to publish a new novel and new motivational creativity book, 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round.