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Spring is an excellent time to engage in training for summer. Starting now, read every day for 15-20 minutes and by the time summer arrives you’ll have built a habit that serves you in good stead whatever else is happening. Spend the time over the next several months figuring out the best time of day for you to read. Are you most consistent before you get up, or after you crawl in bed at the end of the day? It doesn’t really matter whether you read waiting for the bus, waiting for a child to finish an activity, or waiting for water to boil. Just read! Read daily for best results and make sure any children in your life know that you are reading.
Libby the app for digital ebooks and audiobooks also has digital magazines. You can browse for specific issues or get notified everytime a new issue is released of your favorite magazines. The library still has print magazine subscriptions as well. We have everything from Guns and Ammo and Personal Finance, to Martha Stewart Living and Fine Homebuilding. Magazines can be great bedtime reading and they aren’t as heavy as hardcover books and the articles can often be the perfect length to read in one sitting.
Spring sports season is underway so here are some classic books about baseball, golf and track. The Girl Who Loved Tome Gordon by Stephen King is a horror novel in which the main character, lost in the woods, listens to Red Sox baseball for solace. Moneyball by Michael Lewis is a very readable story about baseball statistics. Maybe you’d prefer a biography, then try The Luckiest Man: the life and death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig.
Try Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie or Back Spin by Harlan Coben for fiction that takes place on a golf course.
Jason Reynolds has written a wonderful series of books about an elite track team. The series starts with Ghost and ends with Coach. Each book focuses on one athlete and their motivation for running and the benefits it provides including emotionally.
Now is the time to plan your gardens. Are you starting your plants from seeds, do they need to be started indoors or are you buying starts? We are now about seven to eight weeks out from our last frost date. Stop by the library and browse our gardening books. We have classics like Organic Gardening in Cold Climates by Sandra Perrin to newer titles like Container Gardening by Valery Tsimba. And if you are getting serious about your gardening and want to try homesteading borrow either The Seven-Step Homestead by Leah Webb or The Sustainable Homestead by Angela Ferraro-Fanning.
And for those on the ball, plan-aheaders take a look at our craft books and get ideas for Christmas gifts to get started on. Christmas comes quickly when you are making gifts. Add Crafters’ Cafe to your schedule, the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays from 11am – 1pm, to further assist your making.