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Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
1st Meeting and Book List Round 2
So, had my first Nutmeg meeting and got my 2nd list of contenders!
I feel very blessed to be working with this awesome group of school and public librarians, along with our student readers. We are meeting in West Hartford, which means hubs drops me off and then goes to play at Cabela's. Our first meeting set up the ground rules and expectations for the next year. We started the debate on List 1.
A few days later we received List 2. I am even more excited about List 2. I'm already 4 books in! I will say that one has already been reviewed here! I'll be pushing for that one BIG time! ;)
Just FYI, if you've requested books at WHPL, there's been some really wonky stuff going on with the state/LION hold systems. Double check your record to see if your holds are still there and if they are moving at all!
Over at the WHHS LMC, we are still working on "getting the house in order" so to speak. Still hopeful we will be moving someday, so we're on to eliminating VHS tapes and paring down the DVDs.
Don't forget all the books I buy for Nutmeg reading will be donated by hubs and I to the WHHS LMC next year!
Follow me on Twitter @RamblingsLMS
Tweet what you're reading #whhs #read
Submit your reviews to The Westie Review corner of The Rostrum
I feel very blessed to be working with this awesome group of school and public librarians, along with our student readers. We are meeting in West Hartford, which means hubs drops me off and then goes to play at Cabela's. Our first meeting set up the ground rules and expectations for the next year. We started the debate on List 1.
A few days later we received List 2. I am even more excited about List 2. I'm already 4 books in! I will say that one has already been reviewed here! I'll be pushing for that one BIG time! ;)
Just FYI, if you've requested books at WHPL, there's been some really wonky stuff going on with the state/LION hold systems. Double check your record to see if your holds are still there and if they are moving at all!
Over at the WHHS LMC, we are still working on "getting the house in order" so to speak. Still hopeful we will be moving someday, so we're on to eliminating VHS tapes and paring down the DVDs.
Don't forget all the books I buy for Nutmeg reading will be donated by hubs and I to the WHHS LMC next year!
Follow me on Twitter @RamblingsLMS
Tweet what you're reading #whhs #read
Submit your reviews to The Westie Review corner of The Rostrum
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics
I requested this from WHPL a while ago, and decided to take a break from the Nutmeg nominees (first meeting Wednesday, and I still have FIVE books to read!!!!) and read this instead. It's very short--a quick few hours.
The tagline on the cover:
"Imagine Stephen King writing Little House on the Prairie"
On the back:
"Basically Little Hell House on the Prairie"
I'd say both are accurate.
This is pure horror, very reminiscent of King, down to the ants (see Revival). There's man-eating pigs too.
Amanda is the oldest of 5 children (Emily, Joanna, Charles, and Hannah), living with her parents Susan and Edmund on the mountainside. Life is rough on the frontier. Hannah, born during a long illness and even longer winter, is blind and deaf. There is little work, less food, and loneliness all around.
Amanda finds company in the arms of the postal boy, Henry. Amanda becomes pregnant by him, and he abandons her.
Not long after, Edmund announces that the local postal boy (Henry, of course) suggested they move toward the prairie, where work and food are more plentiful. The family heads out, taking up residence in an empty cabin. A cabin they find covered in blood. Nothing strange about that, right? The family learns a boy, Zeke, and his doctor father have been using the empty cabin's water well, and allow him to continue if the doctor will examine Hannah.
As time passes, stranger and stranger things happen to Amanda and Hannah. All hell breaks loose (literally and figuratively) when Amanda miscarries.
Definitely not a read before bedtime book.
Follow me on Twitter @RamblingsLMS
Tweet what you're reading #whhs #read
Submit your book reviews to The Westie Review in The Rostrum!
The tagline on the cover:
"Imagine Stephen King writing Little House on the Prairie"
On the back:
"Basically Little Hell House on the Prairie"
I'd say both are accurate.
This is pure horror, very reminiscent of King, down to the ants (see Revival). There's man-eating pigs too.
Amanda is the oldest of 5 children (Emily, Joanna, Charles, and Hannah), living with her parents Susan and Edmund on the mountainside. Life is rough on the frontier. Hannah, born during a long illness and even longer winter, is blind and deaf. There is little work, less food, and loneliness all around.
Amanda finds company in the arms of the postal boy, Henry. Amanda becomes pregnant by him, and he abandons her.
Not long after, Edmund announces that the local postal boy (Henry, of course) suggested they move toward the prairie, where work and food are more plentiful. The family heads out, taking up residence in an empty cabin. A cabin they find covered in blood. Nothing strange about that, right? The family learns a boy, Zeke, and his doctor father have been using the empty cabin's water well, and allow him to continue if the doctor will examine Hannah.
As time passes, stranger and stranger things happen to Amanda and Hannah. All hell breaks loose (literally and figuratively) when Amanda miscarries.
Definitely not a read before bedtime book.
Follow me on Twitter @RamblingsLMS
Tweet what you're reading #whhs #read
Submit your book reviews to The Westie Review in The Rostrum!
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