You’re invited to ride your way to Darien Library’s courtyard to meet author Mary Simses — and learn bicycle maintenance tips from experts.
Mary Simses, the author of The Rules of Love and Grammar, will kick-off Summer Reading on June 10
The event will kick-off the Library’s 2017 Adult Summer Reading program.
Win a book, a bike, or some handy bicycle accessories. Refreshments will be served and books will be sold. The maintenance tips are from the experts at Schwinn Bicycle.
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— an announcement from Darien Library
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Simses, author of The Rules of Love & Grammar and a Darien native, will be the Library’s featured speaker at 2 p.m., Saturday, June 10.
Darien Library is proud to cosponsor this event with Schwinn Bicycles, Shake Shack Darien, and Mother’s Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Connecticut.
About Mary Simses’ The Rules of Love and Grammar
If only the rules of love were as cut-and-dried as the rules of grammar!
Grace Hammond is a young woman with a bone to pick about spelling mistakes, punctuation, and sentence structure in The Rules of Love and Grammar, the highly anticipated novel by the author of the bestselling debut The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop and Café.
A wordsmith by trade, Grace can’t let even the most innocent grammar mistakes slip by. She marks up menus in restaurants and cringes when she sees fliers with incorrect punctuation. Grace’s life is in need of correcting, too.
Laid off from her writing job and newly single, she hits pause and returns to her parents’ house in Connecticut.
About Summer Reading
This year the Adult Summer Reading program will encourage patrons to step up their reading game by participating in Darien Library Bingo. Readers hit bingo when they complete five library and book related challenges.
Patrons who score bingo will be eligible for monthly raffle prizes and be entered to win the grand prize for a $100 dollar gift certificate to Barrett’s Book Store.
The program will run June 10 through August 31. Patrons can pick up their bingo cards here or at the Library’s Welcome Desk.
About the Author
Mary Simses grew up in Darien, Connecticut and began to write stories at the age of seven. She spent most of her life in New England, where she worked in magazine publishing, and, later, as a corporate attorney.
She wrote fiction “on the side” for many years, during which time several of her short stories were published in literary magazines.
Mary is the author of two novels, The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café, which was adapted for a movie called The Irresistible Blueberry Farm for the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel, and The Rules of Love & Grammar.
She enjoys photography, listening to old jazz standards, and escaping to Connecticut in the summer.
She lives in South Florida with her husband, and they have a daughter in college who is quite a writer herself.