Sunshine Little Free Library

08/17/2025

📚Sunday Shelfie 📚
I added some books from my collection to our Little Free Library this weekend! ❤️📚 These three were all titles I really enjoyed, but have decided to pass them along to other readers in our community. They were book club picks that my book club has read over the past while.

🌈 The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. My favourite book I’ve read in a LONG time! I ended up getting myself the hardcover sprayed edges version to match my edition of the sequel. Found family. Magical realism. Enchanting. Unforgettable characters.

🌊 Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid - a perfect summertime read. Historical fiction. Summertime in Malibu in 1983. Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives change forever.

✨ Weyward by Emilia Hart - historical fiction with elements of the supernatural. Female power. Resilience. I was gripped! If you’re into nature, curious about witchcraft, and the connections that tie us together as women from different eras, read this one! 🌳✨🐦‍⬛

The rest of the books added were generous donations from our kind neighbours! Thank you to everyone who has visited and donated books. 🫶🏻

If you’d like to donate books, there is a bin on our porch. 📚

08/16/2025

Thank you to local author Oliver Dyment for gifting our an AUTOGRAPHED COPY of his debut novel, The Ninth Forsvar. ✨ This book is an adult other-world fantasy thriller full of nail-biting action and wily political intrigue! 👀

This book has maps inside, and stunning illustrations as well!

📖 Book Description:
War cannot describe the ravages of the Umman Manda. When these monsters descend from the mountains, the people of Estrickt have their own word for what follows: Forsvar.

The scars left by the eighth Forsvar run deep. Time passes, seasons turn, walls find their strength anew. Still, terror holds fresh in the mind of every Estrian. In a society molded to fight these vicious beasts, true recovery is a distant dream.

A new empress is crowned, a new hope rises. But already, signs tell of horrors swelling in the land beyond the mountains.

The ninth Forsvar is on its way…

👑 If you enjoy such authors as Joe Abercrombie or N.K. Jemisin, give Oliver’s book a try!

Do you know someone who would love this book? Tag them in the comments below! ⬇️

08/14/2025

Our friends at Zunzun Reading Community will be hosting an awesome event this weekend! 📚✏️🚌

Hard to believe back to school is just around the corner! How are we feeling about it??? Answer with an emoji below:
🥳 Cannot wait!
😐 Meh, same old for me regardless
😭 Don’t want summer to end

Did you know that this Saturday August 16th we are launching the Back-to-School collection and offering school supplies at Zunzun Little Free Library?
The event starts at 11am. I hope many of you can join us with the kids!
I'll be posting pictures of the amazing collection we've gathered very soon.
Image by Freepik.

08/02/2025

Our has a new flag! 🫶🏻 The other one was fading and I couldn’t resist this beautiful sunshine themed one, with Is rich colours! ☀️
📚 Added some new books today - lots of great titles for adults and kids in there! (If there are any Babysitter’s Club super fans out there, lots of treasures inside for you!) 💜

👀 What catches your eye?

07/30/2025

I am so excited to be joining the reading challenge! (Organized by Daybreak Little Free Library on Insta) ❤️📚

It was so hard to decide on which four books to read as my TBR shelves (because yes there’s now more than one shelf of books waiting to be read) are full of temptations and there just aren’t enough hours in the day!

I’m really looking forward to each of these selections:

1. A Two Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby has been on my TBR for too long. This book comes highly recommended by a dear friend, and I am thrilled that it is the Canada Reads selection for 2025! For the past several years, I have been reading more books by Indigenous authors as part of my own learning and unlearning journey, a priority that’s really important to me. I am grateful to the writers and artists sharing their stories and experiences. 🧡

2. The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton - has been on my TBR since last year when a friend put it forward for bookclub and it wasn’t selected. It sounded so good so I had to grab a copy. Now finally a year later, it was suggested again and we’ll be reading it. It’s a genre that’s new to me - climate fiction. And while I anticipate it will be a heavy and distressing read, I feel these kinds of narratives are ones we need to explore and become more comfortable with as our world continues to change.

3. In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas - also on my TBR shelf for a while… and also part of my learning and unlearning journey. This book explores the interconnected histories of Black and Indigenous communities in southwestern Ontario, particularly focusing on the Underground Railroad period.

4. Wally Lamb’s The River is Waiting is a book that I have been waiting YEARS for. He’s one of my favourite authors and I am really looking forward to diving into this one. Each of his books has lingered in my mind long after putting it down, and I do hope this one does the same!

💭 What’s a book that’s been lingering on your pile for a while?

07/26/2025

❤️📚Happy Saturday Readers!!📚❤️
We put the overflow trolly out with some adult books for weekend visitors looking for summertime reads!
✨Fiction
✨ Historical Fiction
✨Thrillers / Psychological thrillers (including one title autographed by the author!
✨ Non-fiction

Swing by anytime this weekend 📍Newcarlisle Cres

07/14/2025

Local author Pascale Lacelle left a SIGNED copy of her book Curious Tides in our !! Love little surprises like this appearing! ✨📖

Curious Tides is the first book in a trilogy. It’s an atmospheric dark academia fantasy for fans of The Atlas Six, The Binding, The Hazel Wood and Fourth Wing, set in a world of lunar magic, secret societies, and dangerous friendships. ✨🌙 A teen mage must unravel the truth behind a secret society that may have been involved in her classmates’ deaths.

This YA book will undoubltedly be scooped up quickly! Thank you Pascale for sharing this book with us!

The author provides the following content warning on her website: Please be advised that this book deals with and portrays a number of difficult subjects, including death, grief, branding/tattoos, body horror, mild panic attacks, anxiety and depression, bloodletting, elitism, vivid dreams, recurring nightmares, alcohol use, magical substance abuse, magical asylums/prisons.

07/13/2025

Time for our ! We’ve had a number of visitors this weekend already, and things definitely needed a refresh this am. Swipe ➡️ to see what’s in the library today.

Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
This is a historical novel set in the American South, exploring themes of identity, belonging, and the Cherokee Removal. By the author of Cold Mountain.

07/12/2025

☀️I’ve had an amazing start to the summer, with a trip to the west coast to visit my brother and his family, and then a cottage in Quebec with friends.

I’m home now and reflecting. I meant to share a gratitude post before I went away, but time slipped away… before we left, a library visitor saw me and asked if I am the one running this library. I said yes, with the help of my kiddo. He thanked me and shared that his 5 year old loves visiting the library every morning - shared that it’s her favourite part of the day when she gets to choose a new book and leaves a book behind for someone else. He also shared with me that he has started reading more because of our library, and isn’t going on Reddit anymore. It was meaningful to get to hear how this little library is making such a difference for this family in our community. This is why I do this - to bring joy to neighbours, to encourage more reading in our community, and foster a love and excitement about books - particularly among children. ❤️📚

I forgot to ask his name… but I hope whoever you are, that you see this post, and know that I really appeciate you taking the time to talk with me. Thank you! 🫶🏻

07/11/2025

📚☀️We have restocked our in time for the weekend! It’s going to be a hot one. 🥵 Grab a book, and head somewhere cool if you can!

Lots of excellent summertime reads for a range of interests and genres. There are some fantastic kids books available for readers of all ages - includng some Usborne Books that are in like-new condition 🤯, some Babysitter’s Little Sister (original chapter books!), and a ton of early reader options. 📚

Thank you to all of our generous neighbours who have shared these awesome books! I am so grateful for your generosity. 🥰

⬇️ Let us know in the comments: what book would you recommend for summertime reading?? 🧐 I’m always on the lookout for book recommendations.

📍 Find our Library on Newcarlisle Cres ❤️📚

07/11/2025

I am back from an incredible vacation, and while I was away finished our recent read - The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin.

I really enjoyed this book! I found it compelling to read this memoir, which follows the experiences sliding from life as a suburban soccer mom to an opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller… leading to a journey of addiction recovery and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter. I couldn’t put it down, and found myself moved to tears - which I did not expect. Highly recommend as a great summertime read.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4.5 stars)

I’ve added it to our so someone else can enjoy it! If you’ve read it, let me know in the comments what you thought ⬇️