This will be a somewhat shorter column than usual; we’ve been out of town, New Orleans, on my annual birthday trip. Generally, New Orleans is warm in August, but this year, it wasn’t warm, ‘twas HOT! One weatherman said, 93-95 degrees, another said 100! I believe that one! But the trip, as usual, was totally delightful, except that I got hooked on pralines! Wound up buying two pounds; the first was annihilated before leaving town! There is always so much to see and do in that delightful City; even spending a month there, you could not see it all, especially in the French Quarter. But I’d sure love to try!
Prior to leaving Port O’Connor for New Orleans, I thought I’d work on those wonderful “love handles” that won’t go away. Watching my beautiful daughter-in-law grow even more slim as a result of teaching Yoga classes, I took out a book from our Library on Yoga. Titled Yoga For All by Bharat Thakur, the book is beautifully illustrated with excellent photographs showing each exercise. Sections of the book are divided into various exercises for different parts of the body, and another section describes the benefits of meditation. Sadly, I’ve still got the “love handles”!
The First Love Cookie Club book had such an intriguing title, I took it home. Actually, I took it to New Orleans, but read only two paragraphs! This is the third book in Lori Wilde’s Twilight Texas series; the other two are entitled The True Love Quilting Club and The Sweethearts’ Knitting Club.
Take one plump teenager in love with an older neighbor boy, a caring grandmother with a special Christmas Tradition, in a small community with concerned residents near the Brazos River called Twilight, Texas; shake them up and forward nine years and a book with that warm feeling evolves.
Our heroine, Sarah Collier, the overweight teen who is underloved by parents, grows up, slims down, moves to Manhattan, writes a special best seller novel under the name of Sadie Cool. Several years later while struggling with writer’s block on her next book, she receives a startling letter from a young girl in Twilight, Texas. The letter pleadingly invites Sadie to Twilight’s Christmas Celebration. Deciding to attend and arriving in her hometown, Sadie soon discovers that the young letter writer is the dying daughter of Travis Walker, the object of Sadie’s teen-age crush. And the book continues from there with the intrusion in the lives of both Sarah and Travis by the seven members of the Cookie Club.
This book is one of those heartwarming “gotcha” kind of stories; it makes you feel good while and after reading it. Must remember to put it out with our Christmas display at the Library.
We’ve just received a wonderful donation by a caring individual; a number of dvds for children. Among the group is Lilo & Stitch 2, a Walt Disney film. It’s certainly gratifying to receive donations of books and needed dvds from concerned members of this Community.
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
