Just a quick mention that there is a faction of our local community elected leaders that are talking about defunding the library. Yeah, stupid indeed, but some of these people have been this way before but seem to have a few newer members who are like minded.People have said they want to close the library, to me they want to control the library.
One of the newer people also wants to do an audit of books, especially those aimed at LGBTQ+ issues. How would it affect me? If they truely closed, I guess I would have to drive a little farther to the next suburb to use their library! I will update but not often on this issue.
Back to my reading.
A nice mix of fiction and non fiction in this bunch. I sorted them out and read one non-fiction followed by a fiction. Keep things mixed up!
Pain Killer is an updated book as of 2018 of a book published in 2003 in regards to the opioid crisis with OxyContin. This is sort of the readers digest version at less than 200 pages. If you want a more in depth book read Empire of Pain published in 2021 and I read that about a year ago. All about Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family.
Food IQ is a book that helps explain what you need to cook. What types of pots, pans, knives. Cooking methods. Fresh or dried herbs, what is the best type of potato or onion for what you want to do. Recipes included.
I'll Be Watching You another thriller by Andrea Kane. Glad I have gone back to read her stand alone earlier books. In this one a woman is being stalked by a guy she thought had died. Is it really him or someone playing games with her.
Lying Beside You is the latest Cyrus Haven book, just published last year. Cyrus and Evie don't really work together but some how get involved with figuring out why three former co-workers are being targeted. Two have been abducted and a third murdered? Who and why? Another page turner.
Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America, doesn't focus on gun control, but rather the mindset of the shooter. During the last 30-40 years both the FBI and US Secret Service have launched task forces to work out threat assessments and behavior analysis to get into the minds of potential shooters. To identify them before they take action and get them help.
The Club is a celebrity members club with a new spot opening up on an island off the Essex coast of England. Select members and staff are invited for the opening weekend. Tempers fray, bad behavior and then the bodies start showing up. Who and why were these people killed. Page turner.
Good Enough is a cookbook of sorts. Some recipes along with the author's tales of her life. I skipped her stuff and just went through the recipes, nothing that I wanted to keep.
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post is a fictionalized story of her life, based on the real things that happened in her life.
Our community has a very small group that doesn't like that any book could end up on the library shelves. Our public library once was a part of the school system, but that tie was severed decades ago, however some folks still think they can threaten the director and the board with defunding or being fired.
ReplyDeleteWe are staunch supporters of not banning any book.
Our goal is to have open arms to the ENTIRE community; come to the library to read, play games, knit a scarf, listen to a lecture, find your ancestors, and everyone is allowed to learn, no matter what.
The thing about mass shootings in USA is to account for why there are so many of them compared to anywhere else in the world. I have read that one argument made about it not being anything much to do with the ready availability of guns is that guns don't shoot people - people shoot people. And that perhaps those who do the shootings are mentally ill. But there are mentally ill people everywhere around the globe, so I don't see that as a factor that differentiates USA from everywhere else. It's a complex phenomenon.
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Sydney, Australia
Mark's Mews: TBT: I think reading all books teaches us something. I learned more about language reading books than I did in High School english classes.
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