@ Your Library
Hope your March is shaping up to be a wonderful month of reading. There are so many wonderful books to read that every month could be a great reading month. I am really enjoying my last Christmas gift (our family gifts books to each other on January 6th, the last day of Christmas and Three Kings Day). I received Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane. The author explores the concept of rivers being alive by visiting three rivers around the world as well as a local stream near his home in England. I have only read about the first river, Los Cedros located in the cloud forests of Ecuador.
I am also enjoying the second Emily Wilde book by Heather Fawcett about Emily’s attempt to map the faerie realm, or at least the doors leading to faerie realms. I highly recommend T J Klune and his duology The House in the Ceulean Sea and Somwhere Beyond the Sea. Beautiful books about hope, acceptance and finding one’s place in the world. I am looking forward to reading Under the Whispering Door in which a man who barely lived when alive finds he has just seven days to live a whole life.
I have enjoyed several books by R. F. Kuang and am still looking forward to reading Katabasis her latest academia fantasy.
This past month I also finished The Black Wolf by Louise Penny and admit it was a difficult read. She seemed to so accurately capture current events and incorporate them into her latest Inspector Gamache mystery as he seeks to root out domestic terrorists in Quebec.
This book really needs to be read after at least The Grey Wolf. The whole series is wonderful and I just love the characters and their depth and rich lives shared in the small village of Three Pines.
I just discovered Murray McBride, a character invented by Joe Siple. The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride combine a 100 year old former ball player who is looking for a reason to live and a 10 year old with a terminal heart defect.
I try not to read books because of their cover, but sometimes I do. And when it is an author I already like, then watch out. The Winds from Further West by Alexander McCall Smith is a uplifting novel of chance encounters and new beginnings set in Edinburgh. Dead Creek by Vicdtoria Houston is a Loon Lake (Wisconsin) mystery with plenty of fishing. Lauryn Harper Falls Apart by Shauna Robinson is a feel-good story of second chances in a small town and looks at one scenario of returning to the hometown you couldn’t leave quick enough.
After a couple of months with limited new books in the library due to our main book distributor going out of business, our new book shelves are looking full again. We think we’ve caught up on all the popular authors and their new titles, so come check our new shelves for great reads.