Library Notes
February 4, 2005
By Pansy Hundley, Librarian.
A befuddled, puzzled, half-sick Jim Lee came in the library the other day. He came to tell me his most recent mouse tale. He still wasn't sure, even after pondering it, whether he had a very Wiley mouse or what.
He had been sick as the proverbial dog the week before and the mices had come in and tried to take over the house, just because he was sick.
He set the mouse trap with cheese, just like a body is supposed to do. And he had a sack of pecans setting on the cabinet.
Now, if you're wondering why I bring the pecans into this tale, just read on.
When next Jim checked his trusty mouse trap, there was something in it alright, but it wasn't the mouse.
What was caught in the "jaws" of the trap was one of Jim's pecans from the sack. The trap was not tripped, but there, caught in that trap, as pretty as you please, was one of his pecans.
AND, on top of the stove, aligned between the burners, rested eight pecans, as though they had been placed there in some order.
Not quite believing his eyes, not able to figure how that mouse got that pecan in that trap, maybe thinking he was out of his head, Jim got his neighbor to come and behold the sight. He couldn't figure it out either. So, he told Jim "If you won't tell anyone about this, I won't either!" However, Jim came and told me about it and now I'm telling the world.
Well, Jim couldn't not tell it. He tried and tried to get that pecan back in the trap as it had been before. The trap kept tripping and he couldn't do it. He didn't know if he had a mouse in the house who was smarter than the average mouse, but thought he must have.
He did catch that mouse in that trap eventually. But, who knows if it was the pecan-carrying mouse or not. I suppose only time will tell. We shall have to wait and see if any more strange things happen in Jim's house in the future.
Hey, Jonathan Kellerman has a new book out and the name of it is "Twisted". Let us delve into it and see what Kellerman is up to this time.
"Lifeless bodies sprawl in a dance-club parking lot after a brutal L.A. drive-by.. Of the four seemly random victims, one stands out: a girl with pink shoes who cannot be identified -- and who, days later, remains a Jane Doe. With zero leads and no apparent motive it's another case destined for the cold file -- until Petra decides to follow her instincts and descends into a world of traveling drifters and bloodthirsty killers, pursing a possible eyewitness whose life is in mortal danger.
Finding her elusive quarry -- alive -- isn't all Petra has on her plate: department politics threaten to sabotage her case, and her personal life isn't doing much better. If all that wasn't enough, Isaac Gomez, a whiz-kid grad student researching homicide statistics at the station house, is convinced he's stumbled upon a bizarre connection between several unsolved murders. The victims had nothing in common, yet each died by the same method, on the same date -- a date that's rapidly approaching again. And that leaves Petra with little time to unravel the twisted logic of a cunning predator who's evaded detection for years -- and whose terrible hour is once more at hand."