Library Notes
January 9, 2004
By Pansy Hundley, Librarian.
You probably saw by the heading on my Library Notes last week that this librarian is going absolutely nuts!! Maybe not completely, but almost.
Between finishing up paperwork on two grants the library had gotten last year, closing out last year and about a million other things, nuts is a pretty good description.
I’m about to get the days straightened out after the holidays and time off. And just lookee here, a new year has begun. Are you like me, haven’t gotten that usta’ writing 2003 yet, and must now concentrate on 2004?
The automation monster is staring us in the face now for the next few months. That is not a good way to start a new year. We cannot say that it will be a relaxing, know-what-you’re-doing beginning. More like a stumble-around and hope it all works out beginning.
Would ya’ll like to know how many books, videos and books-on-tape you carried out the door last year ? 27,234 and that’s why tongues are hanging out and stacks of books are accumulating that haven’t gotten processed. A total of 333 new members have registered in the past year to carry their share of books and videos out the door.
You would not believe how many people have been on the computers during the past year. They are all busy almost all of the time, with more people waiting many times. This is a going place!
Thanks to several people 22 years ago who worked so hard to make a beginning. That "beginning" has certainly mushroomed and flourished. It has made a place to help, entertain and further educate many children and even adults who have become college students, as the opportunity has finally presented itself.
If someone will take my soap box away now, I can step down, end this talking and get on with another new book that this flourishing place has received. Thank you.
How about a book of "heartbreaking suspense"? Are you ready for that? "Man And Wife", written by Andrew Klavan is what we will look into this week.
"Cal Bradley’s marriage is the stuff of romance. For fifteen years he has shared his life with Marie, a woman he passionately adores. In an idyllic corner of New England that has been home to his family for generations, Cal has become one of the most respected men in town: A father, a churchgoer, a talented psychiatrist who runs a family clinic. And life is good.
Then one night a nineteen-year-old boy named Peter Blue goes on a rampage. After a fight with his girlfriend, Blue sets fire to a local church and brandishes a stolen gun in the face of the town’s hard-boiled police chief – a man unlikely to forgive or forget.
Friendless and suicidal, Blue is sent to Cal Bradley for treatment. For the ;patient, it’s a last chance at redemption. But for the doctor, it’s the beginning of a journey into a world of fear, deception and murder. Because, somehow, Blue’s extraordinary inner life is bizarrely linked to Cal’s reality. And in the mystery of the teenager’s mind lies the key to a more terrible mystery: Marie Bradley’s hidden past.
Cal Bradley’s marriage is about to become a dark territory of secrets and sudden death. And before he can face the truth, he’s going to choose – between everything he believes is right and everything he loves."