by Claire Cline
October 2023
Claire’s Picks
After That Night by Karin Slaughter
The Ghost Illusion by Kat Martin
Final Call by Alex Lake
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
12 Months To Live by James Patterson
After That Night
This is #11 in the Will Trent series but these novels can be read alone and not in order. I am also watching this show on TV and I am enjoying it very much. GBI Investigator Will Trent and Medical Examiner Sara Linton are back again in a mystery thriller. Fifteen years ago Sara Linton’s life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her, or so she thought. A good read.
The Ghost Illusion
I started to read this novel because of the authors note inside this book. She stated she wanted to write a ghost story and began her search for a place to set the novel and chose England. After beginning to search abandoned historic buildings she states she started the beginning of a journey that led her to a place she did not want to go. She states that she is bringing you the reader a tale she felt compelled to write, but not one she would have chosen. She states that she believes it is a story she is meant to tell. Soon she said you the reader will understand why. So with this connotation how can I not now start to read it.
Final Call
They thought it was a simple flight home. How wrong they were.
Heading home after a conference, the senior leadership of a global corporation relax on their private jet ahead of their Christmas break. But their peace is shattered when they realize their jet isn’t taking them home. Instead, it’s heading east – out over the Atlantic Ocean.
Black River Orchard
A small town is transformed when seven strange trees begin bearing magical apples in this horror story. Take a bit of one of these apples, and you will desire only to devour another and another. You will become stronger, more vital, more yourself you will believe. But then your appetite for the apples and their peculiar gifts will keep growing – and becoming darker. This is what happens when the townsfolk discover the orchard and soon everyone is consumed by an obsession with the magic of the apples and what’s the harm if it is making them all happier, more confident, more powerful? But something else is buried in the orchard besides the seeds of these extraordinary trees: a bloody history whose roots reach back to the very origins of the town. But now the leaves are falling, the days grow darker. It’s harvest time, and the town will soon reap what it has sown.
12 Months To Live
Tough as nails criminal defence attorney Jane Smith is hip deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually her charmless client might have committed several murders. But Jane doesn’t have much time, between falling in love with a wonderful guy and an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. She’s just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she is murdered before her expiation date. A bit of a strange read but it did keep me reading.
There are going to be several workshops this fall & winter. To start we will be having a Wreath Making workshop Thursday November 2nd 6pm to 9pm $50 everything included to make a large winter wreath.
There will also be a Needle Felting Snowman on Saturday, November 4, 10am to 12noon $10. and on Saturday November 18th 10am to 1pm a Needle Felting Christmas Tree $25.
There also will be a Small Loom Weaving which will be a full day and you will take home a lovely wall hanging. A Knitting or Crocheting 2 week class for beginners where you will make scarves and dishcloths. Also another 2 week class where you will learn how to make hat and mittens and also another 2 week class how to make slippers.
Please call the library 705 377-5334 for more details and drop in to register for the first 3 classes in November.
Lots of things to do during the cold, dark days of the winter and of course we have lots of books to pique your interest.
See you at your library!
Claire
