Tis the season to reflect upon and give thanks for our many blessings. While I have heard, and have since learned, that growing old is not for sissies, I do appreciate the fact that advancing years should bring us wisdom. (Hopefully) Following is an excerpt from an article titled, “Things You Learn if You Live Long Enough!” It appeared in my hometown newspaper, “The Eden Echo”, where I worked during the summers between college semesters: -I choked on a carrot this morning and all I could think of was, “I’ll bet a doughnut wouldn’t have done this to me.”
-I like to make lists. I also like to leave them lying on the kitchen counter and then guess what’s on the list when I am at the store.
-If you dropped something when you were younger, you just picked it up. When you’re older and you drop something, you stare at it for a while, contemplating if you actually need it anymore.
Newly released books that have arrived here at Rhoads Memorial Library and are ready for checkout include: -”The Girl in the Vault” by Michael Ledwidge. The thriller follows Faye Walker, who wins the most highly coveted internship on Wall Street. She is a shooin for a full-time job at the renowned merchant bank, Greene Brothers Hale, until a treacherous betrayal occurs.
But what her high finance masters-of-the-universe bosses don’t know is that Faye, who made her way from humble small-town beginnings, is not like other interns. Rejection is not an option, so she makes plans to take her dream - and revenge - back via Swiss watch timing, nerves of steel, and $10 million in cold, hard Wall Street cash.
-”The Little Liar” by Mitch Albom. The novel features 11-year-old Nico Krispis, whose coastal home of Salonika, Greece, is invaded by the Nazis. The trusting youngster, who never told a lie, is persuaded by a German officer to convince fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to “new homes.” Nico complies, not realizing until it is too late that he has helped send the people he loved, and others, to their doom at Auschwitz.
After that, Nico never told the truth again, which complicated efforts by his brother, Sebastian, and schoolmate, Fanni, in locating him. They hunt, too, for the Nazi officer who changed their lives; as decades pass, the consequences of what was said and done is revealed, as is what they endured in the death camps.
Remember that while we are closed for the Thanksgiving holiday, we will re-open at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28, eager to help you with your reading, printing, computer use, faxing, movie-viewing, audiobooklistening, needs.
Until then, Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!