Every year there is a book that catches fire, figuratively, with the reading public and becomes a “must read.” In recent years, such novels have been “Lessons in Chemistry,” “Where the Crawdads Sing”, and “Someone Else’s Shoes”, to name a few.
We have all of them here at Rhoads Memorial Library, ready for checkout, along with a 2017 release that we acquired recently. “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” by Gail Honeyman, follows lonely Eleanor who “struggles with appropriate social skills, tending to say exactly what she is thinking.”
But her friendless life changes when she and Raymond, the bumbling and hygiene- challenged IT guy at her office, save Sammy, an elderly man who has fallen. The trio become friends in this “uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit...realizes the only way to survive is to open your heart.”
Newly released books that have arrived and are ready for checkout include: -”Circle of Death” (a Shadow thriller) by James Patterson and Brian Sitts; -”An Evil Heart” (a Kate Burkholder novel) by Linda Castillo; -”Must Love Flowers” (a novel) by Debbie Macomber; -”Obsessed” (a Michael Bennett thriller) by James Patterson and James O. Born).
I have mentioned previously that Texas Panhandle public librarians are a closeknit group that help one another. This statement is proven via such actions as the phone call we received from Jennifer Wilcox, director of Deaf Smith County Library in Hereford, when she asked if we wanted a set of 2021 World Book Encyclopedias.
It seems someone donated the set but the library already had one. We eagerly accepted the set and replaced our older 2011 set. Thank you to our friends to the north!
Terrific Tuesday, led by Felice Acker, local agent with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, focused on France recently. They tasted croissants and made their own miniature version of the Eiffel Tower after she read “Madeline and the Bad Hat” by Ludwig Bemelmans.
An activity sheet was given to the children, and it included fun facts. It noted that France is smaller than Texas but is twice as big as the United Kingdom and eight times the size of Ireland. It is, however, the largest country in the European Union. It produces over 1,500 types of cheese and more than 95% of their population eats cheese.
Don’t forget that the Diabetes Support Group will convene in our meeting room on Thursday, Aug. 3, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Courtney Lowe, Health Agent with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, will lead the session.
Until next week, Happy Reading!