Shelf Reading

is an email book review service of the Transylvania County Library. Each week, a new email review, written by one of our community’s retired librarians, will be sent to your email inbox.

Reviews will average between 150 and 170 words and cover a wide variety of topics and genres (fiction, history, poetry, art, science). Each review will also have a See Also set of further reading recommendations that are either books by the author being reviewed or titles that are associated with the general topic of the review.

Reviews will cover both new and older titles and all reviewed books can be found in the Library’s collection.

Simply give your name and email address to any Library staff member OR  Click HERE to subscribe to "Shelf Reading".  Please include SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and your name in the body of the message. 
The first edition will be sent out on Friday, February 20 -- and each Friday after that.

We hope that Shelf Reading will help you will find some new “reads” or perhaps reacquaint you with some titles from your past reading experiences.