Greetings from Byron G Merrill Library! It is so strange not seeing all of our favorite patrons each week. We do hope everyone is well, keeping busy, and getting all “those” projects completed!
The Library Ladies remain busy as we continue to serve Rumney’s readers by way of my side porch! Once we receive a request, we locate and check out the book, and place it on my porch, at 36 Buffalo Road, to be picked up. The system has been working quite well and we put out about one hundred books a week...Rumney is still reading! If you are interested in taking out a book, email me at sturbyne@rumneylibrary.org
We request that books be returned to my porch in a timely manner and please include your name so we can check the books back in! We bring the books to the library, sanitize them, and let them sit for a week before we return them to the stacks. We feel that everything is safe.
Our patrons are also able to check out eBooks from the New Hampshire State Library (we pay an annual fee for this service). If this is something you have not done and would like to check it out, please email Jane at jkelso@rumneylibrary.org and she will be happy to get you started.
In recent days I have read Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler (2020)... I love her writing and the warmth of her characters; Elsey Come Home by Susan Conley (2019), a Maine writer.... Elsey, like many of us, is simply trying to make it all work, add in that this family of expats lives in China; You Me Everything by Catherine Isaac (2018).... lots happening but it all takes place in the delightful French countryside and again, good people, muddling through (my kind of people); Promises of the Heart by Nan Rossiter (2020)...#1 in a new series is about a young family moving forward when they find they cannot have a baby, just a feel good book of overcoming adversity; How to Walk Away by Katherine Center (2018)... and sometimes we just need to walk away but not until the end of this “cannot put it down” read!
Jim had read The Overstory by Richard Powers (2018), the 2019 Pulitzer Prize winning novel for fiction... He thought it was beautifully written and so good, “a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and evocation...in the natural world”. And now he is reading Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2018)... She demonstrates how leaders are made, not born, and explores the highs and lows as four of our presidents, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D Roosevelt, and Lyndon B Johnson faced moments of horrific national crisis.
I mention the books that we have enjoyed so you know they are available for you to take out as well.
That’s all for this week as we settle in for several days of rain...a good week for a good book! Take care and know that we miss you! Susan and the Ladies
