It’s over! The election is behind us. The winning candidate-for-change will be inaugurated in January. Keep in mind that I am writing several days before the election, so I don’t know who will have won by the time you read this. Whoever he is, he campaigned on a platform for change. Change is good. What would life be without it? Can you imagine eating the same meal every day like my poor dog, Brady? All he has to look forward to is a bowl of the same old dog food, and his favorite frozen treats, ice cubes.
Change gets us up in the morning. We would all roll over and pull the covers over our heads if we knew that today would be just exactly like yesterday and tomorrow. I like change. I like to see the library grow and adapt to the changing needs of the community.
This week the biggest changes at the library are in décor and display. A new quilt has replaced Marilyn Hinner’s Dear Jane quilt. Judith Cochran made the one that is currently hanging. I couldn’t find the exact pattern in our quilt books, but it is a combination of squares and triangles in very cozy blues, browns and dark reds. Judith hadn’t named the quilt, so I did. I call it Autumn Stars. If I worked that long and hard on a project, I would certainly think it deserved a name. Come in and take a look, it’s just the change we needed.
Also changed this week is our display case. Now it houses a variety of books and memorabilia of our local Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle. Isn’t it incredible that this organization has continued meeting for 125 years here in Humboldt? In the display are photos of the early Chautauqua meetings held in tents at local parks. The program from the 1911 summer event is there and several of the books featured over the years are in there too.
The current membership of the local group consists of 12 members and two honorary members. The books for discussion for the remainder of the 2008-2009 season are: Pennsylvania Avenue, Losing Moses on the Freeway and The Zookeeper’s Wife. I understand that the group would welcome new members. If interested, check at the library. We can put you in contact with them.
New on the library’s shelves:
The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement by Bob Zellner. The memoir of a white guy from Alabama, grandson of Klansmen, who joined in the sit-ins and marches of the civil rights era.
Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews. I’m not sure how one writes a funny murder mystery, but Andrews and many other authors crank them out. This is the story of the murder of Santa Claus shortly before the annual Christmas parade. The book jacket says that this is “filled with outrageous Christmas spirit and mayhem.
Keeping Secrets by Gwen Madoc. Cousins and best friends keep their relationship a secret in the face of a bitter familial feud. All is complicated when they fall for the same fellow.
Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn. He wrote the book Memorial Day a few years ago. It was quite the hit, but when I ordered it, I mistakenly ordered a book of the same title by another author. Readers quickly brought it to my attention. This is the CIA and counterterrorism at its best.
An Outrageous Affair by Penny Vincenzi. The cover says that Vencenzi is the “doyenne of the modern blockbuster” and that this is her “most enthralling family saga yet.” Family sagas are just the right kind of book for coldish weather. Perfect to curl up with for a long afternoon and be transported into some other family’s problems for awhile.
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