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Today is the deadline to turn in your writing for our summer writing contest. Physical entries need to be at the library by 6pm today, Friday, July 18. Digital entries to ifallslibrary@gmail.com can be submitted until Monday morning as that is when all entries will be tabulated. Get your writing published for the community to read.
Crafters’ Café will meet on Tuesday, July 22 from 11 – 1 pm in the library meeting room. Bring whatever you are working on and join us for a beverage, conversation and crafting time. Libratory will help elementary students explore the world on Wednesday, July 23rd at 11 am. Storytime will gather at 10:30 am on Thursday and Big Play will be set up from 10:30 – noon on Friday. And don’t forget to read! Everyone can read and earn free books this summer. Summer reading continues until August 8th, but you can claim your earned books until the end of August.
I’m just finishing up The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. She is such an amazing writer and the setting is so familiar even though the particulars aren’t. The characters pop and come to life under Ms. Erdrich’s capable hands. I remember the flooding that occurred in 2008 as that was our introduction to the chances for major spring flooding and it wouldn’t be very many years before we experienced flooding in our community.
I’m finding that I need to alternate my reading more these days and next up will be something light and fluffy. I have enjoyed several romantasies this spring, so may I’ll look at a new science fiction title like Beth Revis’ short trilogy that starts with Full Speed to a Crash Landing continues in How to Steal a Galaxy and finishes with Last Chance to Save the World. (And if you haven’t read the Murderbot book series by Martha Wells, I highly recommend it.) K. B. Wagers And the Mighty Will Fall looks intriguing and has been compared to Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet that was a lot of fun. And with a title like Space Brooms! I may have to put A. G. Rodriguez book at the top of my pile. What happens when a lowly janitor finds a data-chit with deeply confidential and highly coveted information? Lots of chases and galivanting across the universe, I imagine.
Maybe I’ll explore the newest mysteries by J. A. Jance, Overkill, a new Ali Reynolds mystery. The newest Agatha Raisin title is Killing Time by M. C. Beaton and the newest Sneaky Pie Brown book is Sealed with a Hiss by Rita Mae Brown and the newest Craig Johnson Longmire story is Return to Sender. I also want to read the Cary Griffith mystery series about Sam Rivers that begins with Wolf Kill and a new title Rattlesnake Bluff just released.
Of course, I could always explore new titles from the junior room or young adult sections of the library. There are just so many books to read.