Dumb numbers joke — auf Deutsch edition! A woman walks up to a bar and orders two martinis. The bartender asks, “dry?” The woman looks at him and says, “Nein, zwei.” If this joke makes no sense to you, take some fun German classes through Mango Languages, free (frei) with your Andover library card! Enjoy this month’s puzzle!
October 2023 Book of the Month
Called a "mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy," The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides is our pick for the October Book of the Month.
October 2023 Puzzle: Celebrity Heroes
This month's crossword features famous people who've done action-hero type things in real life. If you're worried about missing out on the action taking place at the library, sign up for library news by email!
September 2023 Mid-Month Sudoku
This puzzle becomes available in September, the month in which International Talk Like a Pirate Day has been observed every year since 2002. Did you know Mango Languages has a six-lesson course on how to talk like a pirate? (Mango can help you learn over 70 other languages, so why not?) Anyway, to commemorate the occasion, we leave you with this joke to tell a friend:
September 2023 Book of the Month
Called A Best Book of the Year by the New York Times and NPR, September's Book of the Month is The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty. Winner of the National Book Award in 2022, it is a mesmerizing story that will stay with you long after you finish it.
September 2023 Puzzles: Double crossword bonus!
This month we present two crosswords, MA State Parks and Some Pretty Good Books. For those partial to the first, did you know you can get passes to Massachusetts State Parks and properties owned by the Trustees of Reservations from our museum passes collection? For those partial to the second, check out our Book recommendation newsletters, Book recommendation archive, and New York Times Best Sellers pages. Still don't know what to read? Tell us what you like and we'll send you a personalized list of suggestions! MA State Parks
August 2023 Mid-Month Sudoku
This puzzle drops on August 15, which is also known as National Lemon Meringue Pie Day. In honor of this fact, we searched "Lemon Meringue Pie" in New York Times Cooking to see what came up. (We recommend you not do this while you're hungry or you'll go crazy.) It's got recipes with names like Cranberry Lemon Meringue Pie, Extra-Lemony Meringue Pie, Dolester Mile's Lemon Meringue Tart, Lemon Meringue Pots de Crème, and more.
August 2023 Book of the Month
Called charming and uplifting by Booklist magazine, The Little Italian Hotel by Phaedra Patrick is a perfect read for the sunny days of August!
August 2023 Puzzle: Seen on Highways
If you are planning a long road trip, games like The Alphabet Game and Ghost can help keep boredom at bay, but be sure to also load up on audiobooks! If your car has a CD player (and lucky you if it does!), then there are more than 4,000 audiobook CDs you can borrow from the library and almost 35,000 titles to choose from within our library's network! If your car has Bluetooth, Apple Car Play, or Android Auto—or an audio cable than can connect to your car stereo's AUX port—you can use your smartphone to play any of thousands more digital audiobooks using the Libby, by OverDrive and Hoopla Digital apps. Please get in touch if you would like us to help you find great books to listen to or to get set up with either of these apps.
July 2023 Mid-Month Sudoku
This month's Sudoku comes with surefire way to make money using unassailable numbers logic: Ask a friend if you can borrow a dollar. If they say yes, tell them to give you just fifty cents of it. When they ask why, explain that that way they'll owe you fifty cents, and you'll owe them fifty cents, and you'll be even. Quod erat demonstrandum!