Just received information concerning the Summer Reading Program at the Library. The programs start here on Tuesday, June 7th until Tuesday, July 12th. Registration will begin on Tuesday, May 31st; see Ms. Shirley here at the Library for further information. This can be a fun morning for the kids as various speakers will be here to talk about what’s going on!
A very kind gentleman in this area donated a book to our Library that still has me in a state of fear concerning our government and its proposed actions. The book is entitled Inside Out, and the author is Barry Eisler. Mr. Eisler had spent three years in a covert position with the CIA’s Directorate of Operations. Not too certain what that involved, and not too certain that after reading the book and the listing of footnotes, bibliography, and acknowledgments from the author, I would want to know. The book hits a very hot point today with the subjects of “torture” and “waterboarding” and hidden CIA prisons, and a team of assassins, the JSOC, supposedly under the control of the Vice President. The book is impossible to put down until the last page is reached, and then, you want to reread it. Beautifully written, the author’s previous career in law is quite evident in his writing.
A fun book was also a gift, Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella, and we have on our shelves another book by this author. The plot concerns a young woman, Lexi Smart, a lower echelon employee of a firm in London, who wakes up after suffering amnesia to find that she has become a high rising corporate executive with an extremely wealthy and gorgeous husband. Her struggles to learn how all of this happened in the previous three years are entertaining and also frustrating. But when she learns that she has an adorable lover with whom she is planning to live, well, Lexi’s level of confusion reaches a high. A great book for the summertime.
Wendy Corsi Staub writes mysteries filled with suspense; she has achieved the talent of providing the reader with an unexpected and twisted ending. All The Way Home tells the story of a haunted area in upstate New York; haunted not by ghosts but by the mysterious disappearance of four teenage girls previously. When the heroine returns to this small town, after being absent for a number of years, she finds herself involved once again in these disappearances when she had lost her older sister. Now she loses her younger sister along with another teen resident. And the story continues and continues.
Ladies: don’t forget, Bunco will be the first Tuesday of June, the 7th at 7:00 p.m. in the back room of the Community Center. See Shirley for more details!
We have a number of books, both hard cover and soft cover, available for sale at the prices of $1.00 for hardcover and $0.25 for the soft. They make excellent companions when you go on a trip and don’t want to worry about a due date from our Library. Do come and check them out! You won’t be disappointed.
“When an old person dies, a Library burns down” -Karin Gillespie
