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Happy April! May April showers bring May flowers and warmth. I am ready for my walk to not be muddy. In the meantime I continue reading books both to escape and to learn new things. I escape by reading lighthearted fantasies, historical fiction or science fiction (if you haven’t read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, I highly recommend it). I learn by reading new science books (Wild on Purpose: the American prairie story and the art of thinking bigger by Sean Gerrity), history and craft books. Currently I am reverse engineering a sweater my daughter found at a second hand store years ago and loves. I have used many of our knitting books to find stitches, basic patterns and ideas for shaping to help recreate a beloved sweater that I didn’t make and think was actually machine knit. It may take a couple of tries, but I’m learning lots and the yarn we picked out is delightful to work with.
Whatever your goals in life, let the library help you find books to take one step (or more) closer to your dreams. We have books about writing, building a business, learning watercolor, knitting or woodworking and so much more. Including the wonderful Natural Yarn Dyes by Anna Bauer and Eva Zathraeus which makes me want to try and spin and then dye my own yarn.
Kelley Armstrong, author of the Rockton novels, has a second series called Rip through Time. The fourth novel about a modern-day homicide detective who slipped back in time 150 years to Victorian Scotland has embraced her new life including her role as assistant to an undertaker and detective in Death at a Highland Wedding. Tell Me Somthing Good by Court Stevens explores the ripples we all make in our community whether we realize it or not as the events of twenty years ago are brought back to the surface with the accidental death of a man and threats that brings to a woman.
The Botanist’s Assistant by Peggy Townsend is being billed as a mix of The Maid and Lessons in Chemistry. A murder in a science lab shatters Margaret’s quiet and ordered life and she decides to solve the crime to restore her equilibrium.
If you want your mysteries with a side of romance or is that romance with a side of mystery, you decide when reading And Then There Was One by Martha Waters. Georgiana Radcliffe knows that nothing ever happens in her small Cotswold village so when at least four and maybe five villagers die in under a year, she decides she must reach out to a famous London detective only to be sent his assistant, who she believes to be a posh womanizer.
Remember that our Library of Things includes a wide variety of outdoor games. As you begin planning graduation parties or family reunions and grandchildren visiting make plans to borrow one or more games to enjoy together. We also have a roaster, drink dispenser and punch bowl.