Dennis Hill of Memory Road fame will entertain us with songs from the movies at noon tomorrow, Wednesday, April 8, in the Cumberland Room. Oh, to remember yesteryear!
The Mysteries of Egypt will be presented by Larry Pahl, director of the American Institute for Pyramid Research, at 1:30 p.m., right after the concert. Stay and learn about the mysteries of Egypt.
Art Circle Public Library is at 3 East St., Crossville. Visit artcirclelibrary.info or call 931-484-6790 for more information.
Great New Books
Transcription by Ben Lerner. This slim novel is divided into three sections.
In the first, the narrator returns to Providence, RI, where he attended college, to interview Thomas, his mentor, on the occasion of his 90th birthday. The unnamed narrator drops his phone in the hotel sink, rendering it useless for recording the interview.
For some reason, he cannot bring himself to tell Thomas about the broken phone, and so pretends to record their interview.
The second section takes place in Spain, where the narrator is attending an international symposium in honor of Thomas’s memory.
The third section is told by Max, Thomas’s son, with the original narrator interjecting in places.
In his first publication since COVID-19, Lerner looks at the early days of the pandemic, interrogates what it means to be a good adult child and a parent, how legacy is collated and perpetuated, and the function of memory, particularly the relationship between memory and technology.
The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer. Book witch Rainy March knows the rules: real people belong in the real world, and fictional characters belong in their books.
Still, when she’s given the assignment to keep her book crush, noir private eye the Duke of Chicago, safe from a Book Burner, she can’t help falling in love, even though she’s a real person and he’s a fictional hero.
She can enter his book, but the duke shouldn’t enter her world — though he does. Once her coven leader finds out, Rainy is forced to stay away from the duke if she wants to continue keeping books safe from the Burners, people who seek to harm books.
However, the improbably named Penny Nichols, a new witch in Rainy’s group, throws the duke back in Rainy’s path, allowing the two of them to solve the mystery of the kidnapping of Rainy’s grandfather and even Rainy’s own family backstory.
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Natalie Heller Mills is a car wreck of a protagonist who crashes through barriers and leaves bodies in her wake. The influencer lives on a custom-built farm in the Idaho mountains, not far from where she grew up.
Natalie’s rustic farm and raw-milk lifestyle are fodder for her million-plus followers on social media, where she projects the image of the perfect Christian trad wife, living with her college-sweetheart husband (a political scion) and their five (soon to be six) kids, plus two nannies and a social media producer.
Shortly after readers meet her, Natalie’s life begins to spiral out of control, resulting from actions revealed to readers much later in the two-pronged narrative.
As things are unraveling, Natalie wakes to find herself in the mid-19th century, on an actual farm with different children who still call her mother. Desperation takes hold as she tries to find a way back to her “real” life.
Library Laugh I
Who made the fish’s wishes come true? Its fairy cod-mother.
Stingy Schobel Says
Did you know that buying a used kitchen knife from a resell site like eBay can save as much as 90% of the energy costs needed to make a new knife?
You can sanitize a used knife in seconds at home. If the knife does not have a plastic handle, place it in boiling water for 30 seconds. Turn off the heat and let the knife sit in the hot water, then slowly pour the boiling water out; allow it to cool to room temperature.
If the knife has a plastic handle, fill a pot with the hottest water that comes out of the tap and let it soak for 15 seconds. Remove with tongs and scrub with an old toothbrush to remove any debris.
Library Laugh II
Why is talking to cows a waste of time? Whatever you say goes in one ear and out the udder.
Libraries=Information
Many homeowners are advised to keep chest freezers in the garage because the unheated area will help keep the freezer cold.
But the reality is that the garage has inconsistent temperatures, especially in climates with hot summers and cold winters.
These swings in temperature can force the freezer to work harder on hot days, which works the internal motor longer and can reduce the lifespan of the freezer.
The best place to keep a chest freezer is the basement, where the temperature is consistently cool.
Spring Blossom Bonus
How does a farmer count his cattle? With a cow-culator.