Destination Imagination

Come by the library today at 4:15 for Marvelous Monday.  The 5th grade Destination Imagination team will be performing today. 

Calling all Science Buffs

We are knee deep in preparing for Summer Reading around here.  Our theme this year is "Fizz, Boom, Read!" with an emphasis on science. 

Do you have any ideas for science projects or experiments we can do?  Do you know of any cool gadgets that we need to get? 

We've already purchased a Newton's Cradle, and have a Pendulum Wave on order.  The Newton's Cradle has already been popular with kids and adults alike.

 

We also plan to have a ladybug farm and perhaps experiment with moss graffiti!  Let us know your ideas.  We need as many as we can get.

New Coffee Cups

Every year after TLA Lisa brings us back something fun.  This year it was these cool coffee cups!

Come in and see what we're reading!

Marvelous Monday! : Sock Bunnies

Check out the cool sock bunnies we made yesterday!

 

 

The bunnies were easy to make, requiring only a sock, some rice, yarn, glue, and decorations.  Come in next Monday at 4:15 to see what we're doing!!

Julie's Journal : Are you a re-reader?

Lately, I have been in a bit of a reading slump.  I am having the hardest time finding something new to read that I like.  I have read several books in the last couple of weeks, but none of them have really struck a chord with me.  In fact, to finish up the last few, I have found myself skimming large parts of the story, just so I could see how it ended and be done with it.  I think I may need to change my reading criteria because even the books that sound really good when I read the synopsis end up leaving me disappointed. 

However, when this happens, I like to go back and re-read some of my favorite books and authors.  I know that not everyone does this.  In fact, in my time working at the library I've had a chance to observe the reading habits of lots of people and my observation tells me that not many people enjoy re-reading books.  Many of our patrons actually mark our books with a small symbol in the back pages so that they know that they've read a book and don't accidentally check it out again.  (We don't mind.) 

I actually googled re-reading and found countless discussions about the pros and cons.  Readers seem to be firmly entrenched on one side or the other.  The main argument on the con side seems to be that there are so many books to read that a reader just doesn't have time to go back and re-read, which I certainly understand.  The argument on the pro side is that books have many different nuances that may need to be re-read to be properly digested. 

For me, re-reading is about knowing what book suits my current mood, and any discovering of new nuances is just a bonus.  I love knowing that if I loved a book the first time around, I can always go back and fall into its world again.  Some of my favorite books to re-read are:

The Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery,

Anything by Grace Livingston Hill,

 

and of course the Harry Potter series.

 

Of course, I only re-read books that I truly loved the first time around.  Which camp are you in?  Are you a re-reader, or do you read a book once then never again? What types of books do you re-read?  For me, fiction lends itself to re-reading much more than non-fiction, but I'm sure other people have the opposite opinion.  Do you wait years between re-reads or can you re-read almost immediately?  Let me know in the comments below.   



Lisa at TLA

Lisa is in San Antonio this week for the annual Texas Library Association conference.  This morning she was very fortunate to get to meet James Patterson and get a signed copy of his new children's book House of Robots which won't come out until November! 

 

I haven't gotten to talk to her about it yet, but I know she's excited!

What is a library?

New York Times Bestseller List

Fiction

1.       Power Play, by Danielle Steel

2.       Night Broken, by Patricia Briggs

3.       Be Careful What You Wish For, by Jeffrey Archer

4.       Stone Cold, by C.J. Box

5.       Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson

6.       The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt

7.       The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd

8.       The Bootlegger, by Clive Cussler

9.       Private L.A., by Mark T. Sullivan

10.   The Chase, by  Lee Goldberg

Nonfiction

1.       10% Happier, by Dan Harris

2.       The Promise of a Pencil, by Adam Braun

3.       Uganda Be Kidding Me, by Chelsea Handler

4.       Killing Jesus, by Martin Dugard and Bill O’Reilly

5.       David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell

6.       Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand

7.       Not Cool, by Greg Gutfeld

8.       The Future of the Mind, by Michio Kaku

9.       Story of the Jews, by Simon Schama

10.   Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg

 

Highlighted titles are available at Franklin County Library.

Easter in the Library!

It's that time of year again!  We've hidden Easter eggs all over the library!  Just come on in for your first Easter egg hunt of the season! 

All we ask is that you limit yourself to five eggs per day and that you return the empty eggs to the basket on the front counter.  All ages are welcome to hunt!!