Claire’s Picks
1. ‘3 Days To Live’ by James Patterson
2. ‘Murder At Haven’s Rock’ by Kelley Armstrong
3. ‘Nowhere For Very Long’ by Brianna Madia
4. ‘The Sun Walks Down’ by Fiona McFarlane
5. ‘Old Babes In the Wood’ by Margaret Atwood
‘3 Days To Live:’ There are three thrillers in this book. ‘3 Days To Live’ is about a CIA agent bride on her European honeymoon when she and her husband are poisoned,leaving her 72 hours to take revenge. ‘Women & Children First’ – When a deal goes band on a tech executive in Washington he turns an order to kill his family into a chance to relive his military glory days. ‘The Housekeepers’ – A doctor trusts her two housekeepers, but when she’s murdered in a botched attempt to steal drugs, the pair of drifters trying to control their former employer’s estate face off against the Russian mob. These three stories were okay although I would rather have one full length novel.
‘Murder at Haven’s Rock:’ Deep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run. This is not the first town of this kind, something Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, know firsthand. They met in the original town of Rockton, but greed and deception led the couple to finance a new refuge for those in need. A different but good read.
‘Nowhere For Very Long:’ The unexpected road to an unconventional life. In this vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures travelling across the deserts of the American West in a van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life. ‘Nowhere for Very Long’ is the true story of a woman learning and unlearning, from back roads to breakdowns, from married to solo, and finally, from lost to found to lost again—this time on purpose. A different read.
‘The Sun Walks Down:’ In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Faily—newlyweds, farmers, mothers, Indigenous trackers, children, artists, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen—confront their relationships, both with one another and with the landscape they inhabit. A bit different again, I don’t think I really liked this one.
‘Old Babes in the Woods:’ Another kind of book I don’t normally read. This has a total of 15 stories in it and Atwood explores the warp and weft of experience with her characteristic insight and humour-from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right was to stop someone from choking, to a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch. They feature beloved cats, a confused snail, an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales and a cabal of elderly female academics and more.
These tales by turn devastate, illuminate, delight and entertain, so they say.
In the next Claire’s Picks I am going back to reading a good novel by J.D. Robb or Grisham or Kellerman, although I do believe it is a good thing to try something different once in awhile.
The Pyansky Egg Workshops March 23 and 25 are filled. Please leave your name and number if you would like us to see if we can do another egg workshop or if you have any ideas on what other kind of workshop you would like to do or if you would be willing to teach one.
We also have several activities for children during the March break, check our Facebook page to see what’s happening.
And starting March 21 every Tuesday from 1 to 3pm we will be having a Knitting/Crocheting Club. Bring your knitting/crocheting and enjoy a couple of hours working and socializing. And if you need a refresher course or would like a few lessons come out and meet these talented people and learn a new skill.
And of course, we are still having the Mahjong ladies coming every Wednesday from 10 am to 12 noon playing this fun game. Everyone is welcome.
We are trying to do many of the activities etc that you asked for on the survey we sent out a few months ago. We are now open Thursdays evenings which is what many of you wanted to see but we certainly are not seeing the numbers we hoped. Reminder we are open Thursdays from 12 until 6 pm until the end of March and then our hours change on Thursdays from 1 until 7 pm. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays we are open from 10 am to 4 pm.
Hope to see you at your library!
by Claire Cline
