The Greatest Travel Movies - Adult Summer Reading Program

As part of the library's Novel Destinations Adult Summer Reading Program, we will start this program with a discussion about our Favorite Travel Movies of all time.  Following this discussion will be a showing of a travel movie that most of us have probably never seen that takes place in the outback of Australia.  The movie, Siam Sunset, directed by John Polson, (Mission Impossible II) is a sometimes dark but satisfying comedy about a British design executive, who seemingly has everything going for him when his life is suddenly turned around by the bizarre death of his wife.  He wins a getaway trip to Australia where he meets a wild group of eccentrics, including a woman who has stolen cash from her drug-dealing boy friend. As the movie moves along, we learn further that the executive is constantly accident-prone and drawn into unlikely situations. The film's title refers to a new design color that Roache is trying to develop.  If you are a fan of zany British and Australian humor, you will find this film to be an enjoyable way to see some of the Australian Outback.

During the time that the library usually offers the Wednesday Wisdom lectures and film series, this summer will be used for Adult Summer Reading Events.  The theme of the Summer Reading Program is Novel Destinations.  We will have events every Wednesday at 1:30 in July and August that will center on the travel theme.  We will have programs on travel photography, travel journaling and sketch books, travelogues, book reviews and travel trivia games.  Keep your date with the library every Wednesday afternoon and join other armchair travelers as we explore the world through reading.  Check the website or bulletin board in the library for specific events.  Regular Wednesday Wisdom programming will resume in September.  Please participate in the Adult Summer Reading Program: Novel Destinations.  Submit an entry form for each book you read to be eligible for weekly prize drawings and for the Grand Prize of a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble to be drawn at the end of the program.  Submit your favorite vacation photos for our "South Brunswick Travels" photo mural and plan to attend the end of summer open house on August 24 from 2 to 4 for food and fun. 

Call or stop by the Information Desk for additional information.  Pick up a Novel Destinations Bookmark Entry Form to record your reading and to participate in the prize drawings.  Get the complete rules of the photo contest on the Photo Mural Entry Form which is available at the Information Desk or online at www.sbpl.info.