This week, the Curious ‘Cat asked First Year Experience Librarian Rob LeBlanc about his recent reads:

Book-to-screen adaptation: Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

Author who visited Villanova: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Genre you never read before: (Kitchen science) What Einstein Told His Cook by Robert Wolke

Book whose cover you loved: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Book you meant to read in the last year: (Re-read) Dune by Frank Herbert

A ghost story: End of Watch by Stephen King

Climate fiction book: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

A biography: John Adams by David McCullough

Book recommended by a friend: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Your summer reading recommendation: The Book Thief by by Markus Zusak

Interested in additional reading recs and/or research help? Contact LeBlanc: robert.leblanc@villanova.edu

Kallie Stahl, MA ’17 CLAS, is communication and marketing specialist at Falvey Memorial Library.