Revelstoke Mountaineer Reads: New weekly summer feature for readers

Revelstoke Mountaineer Reads is a new summer book series that features book recommendations from three Revelstoke book purveyors. The contributors are Samantha Robert, owner of Castle Joe Books; Kendra Runnalls, librarian at the Revelstoke branch of the Okanagan Regional Library and Vanessa Smith, owner of Grizzly Book & Serendipity Shop.

Each week until August, they’ll take turns sharing a book, books or other reading experiences with the community. Most of the works will have a Revelstoke connection, whether it’s a regional fiction read or a non-fiction work that will help you explore the world around us.

Thanks to Kendra, Samantha and Vanessa for contributing!

Week 1: Samantha Robert, Castle Joe Books

Spring, I find, is typically the time for some light reading. The weather is mild, the air is fresh and quite often you can find me sitting under a tree overlooking the Columbia, relaxing in my beautiful courtyard, or on the patio of one of our wonderful coffee shops with my nose in a book.

One of my most current reads, Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography, has counterbalanced some of the heavier reading I had to do while establishing Revelstoke’s most current attempt at a Safe Space social group.

Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

I definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves Neil Patrick Harris but more so doesn’t mind having people stare as you accidentally spit out your coffee from a quippy line such as — well I won’t ruin it, and let’s be honest it’s probably not rated PG.

Harris’ autobiography is a take-off on the popular 1980s Choose Your Own Adventure series and uses the old cliffhanger gags and pulpy styles to delve into the raunchy, sincere and funny page-turner episodes that have made up the life of the popular U.S. actor so far. Make the wrong choice and you’ll be responsible for his untimely demise!

I also recommend that people balance out their reading so they stimulate their mind but don’t get bogged down with the mechanics of the material they are consuming.
Interested in hearing more about the autobiography? Click the link for a synopsis by none other than Neil Patrick Harris himself.