As summer was winding down, I caught Blue Line riders reading everything from downright academic titles to beach reads.
Several readers traveled to exotic locations with trendy fiction. One of you escaped to Nantucket with Elin Hildebrand's summer's bestseller The Rumor. Her next book, Winter Stroll, debuting October 13, can help us transition to colder weather. Another rider examined Louise Penny's latest murder mystery set in Quebec, The Nature of the Beast.
A fellow Blue Line commuter landed on another planet with The Martian, which appeared on our Space Books for Grown-Ups list, a tie-in to this year's award-winning Explore and Soar Summer Learning Challenge. The highly anticipated movie starring Matt Damon comes out October 2.
But some of you were absorbed in heavy political tomes. I spied one rider studying Infidel, Ayaad Hirsi Ali's gripping tale of her fight for the rights of Muslim women. Her recent book Heretic boldly calls for a major reformation of Islam.
On the literary fiction front, another Blue Line passenger en route to O'Hare balanced a paperback copy of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon on top of his suitcase. Perhaps he would enjoy the latest Oprah Book club pick, Ruby, which has been compared to Morrison's work.
Another passenger was engrossed in the well-received new novel Among the Ten Thousand Things, which Kirkus called a "quietly wrenching family portrait" dealing with the aftermath of an affair.
Kudos to Blue Line riders on their taste in contemporary literature! Who knows what Chicagoans will be caught reading next?
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