I'm not much of a winter fan, much to the chagrin of my snow-loving partner. Too much sleet! Too much hidden ice! Even the pigeons under the bridge around where I live are shivering! The only way I can convince myself to go outside between November and February is helping out at my local…
Now in its ninth year, the beloved One Book, One Community (OBOC) series is an opportunity for readers from Cook Memorial, Indian Trails, and Vernon Area public libraries to join in a shared experience of literature. This year’s selection is The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff. A young woman in rural India finds the false…
Poor Richard Osman. He wrote a beloved, critically acclaimed mystery series that breathed new life into the cozy mystery subgenre, spawned countless imitations, and is currently in production as a Netflix series. Then he pressed pause. At the end of The Last Devil To Die, Osman announced that the members of the Thursday Murder Club would…
Would you let your children pick your next date? In Is She Really Going Out with Him? (I must confess to humming the old Joe Jackson song every time I say the title) by Sophie Cousens that is exactly what our narrator agrees to. Anna Appleby is a busy, newly divorced mother of…
Office politics are the subject of Natalie Sue’s debut dramedy novel, I Hope This Finds You Well. Jolene works at the corporate offices of a big box store, Supershops. Her desperate loneliness is as redolent as the smell of burnt popcorn in the staff room microwave. It is in fact, a smell that kicks…
“They stared down at the ground in stony imitation of the graveyard angels, without the blank unblinking eyes or patchy beards of lichen. When they heard Edie’s footsteps round the Drewalt obelisk, they looked up and she looked down and realized that what they were actually staring at was a hole in the ground.” M.L.…
Who doesn't love a grumpy old man sticking his nose in other folks' business? In this case it's a grumpy old pony sticking his snout in his other people's business. Like Marcellus the octopus in Remarkably Bright Creatures, we have an animal intervening in human affairs and ultimately, saving the day. Pony after being sold by…
Meet Allie, the newest Reference Librarian at Cook Memorial Public Library District! She and Hannah discuss recent reads, the never-ending debate between hardcover versus paperback, and how Allie got into the library business. https://traffic.libsyn.com/cooklib/Welcome_Allie.mp3 Titles mentioned in this episode: Martina Calvi’s The Art of Memory Collecting; Molly Baz’s More is More; Franz Kafka’s The…
Award-winning author Clare Chambers has set this story in 1964 England, when the effects of World War II are a not-so-distant memory, and social changes are rocking society. The author introduces us in alternating chapters to two seemingly disconnected characters: William, a bearded, mute man living with his elderly aunt, and Helen, a practitioner…
"The girl's shoulders stopped trembling at "friend." Amazing how the word, so common and ordinary among those who practiced plain speech, could lift the spirits unfamiliar with the custom. Slowly, the girl unlaced her fingers and picked up her head. Pearl gasped. Cook had gone quiet. Abby refused to react." Caroline Woods, The Mesmerist, pg.…
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