Fall is for many the beginning of the year. If you have trouble keeping the resolutions you set in January, here is another time to set goals, maybe some educational goals.
It is important for all of us to continue learning new things and keeping our brains active. The library wants to help. Let us know what you want to learn or read this coming year and we’ll make sure the library has the resources to help you.
A good goal would be to just to read more this coming year. Authors keep coming up with new works that may tell an old story in a new way or a new story in an old way. Here’s a handful of new fiction to whet your appetite. Or your stomach with a title like How to Eat a Cupcake by Meg Donohue. Annie and Julia were childhood friends in spite of their class differences but a life-altering betrayal destroyed the friendship. Now a decade later, life intervenes and they must face the truth about their past or risk losing everything.
Mark Haddon of Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother has a new book recently published called The Red House. He illuminates the puzzle of family through Richard and his estranged sister Angela as they spend a week together at a vacation home in the English countryside.
I really enjoy short stories and short story collections. While this collection isn’t really my taste, I like some of the authors included in the collection and will read a few of the stories, which is the real beauty of story collections — there is no rule that you have to read everything. The Weird: a compendium of strange and dark stories includes tales by Neil Gaiman, Michael Chabon, Stephen King and many more from a century of storytelling dark and strange stories across all genres.
Let’s finish off today’s titles with something a mystery. Maisie Dobbs survived World War I, established her own detective agency and continues to thrive in post-war England, but it is now April 1933 and powerful political forces are afoot as London becomes affected by the march to another war years before the first shot is fired. A powerful and poignant story told masterfully by Jacqueline Winspear in Elegy for Eddie.
The library lobby is available for visual artists to display their work. If you are interested in providing pictures for us to display, please contact Diane at the library. We have space available between now and December and then again after the new year.
Be sure and take a look at our new Pictures and Pen photograph just waiting for its story to be told. All story entries are due by Sept. 26, at 6 p.m. And while the September deadline for photographs has passed, just get them in by the 10th of any month for inclusion in the monthly contest. Photos and winning stories can also be found on our blog at http://ifallslibrary.blogspot.com.
