We don’t say thank you enough to everyone who donates their time, their books, and their money to the library. If you would like to join the Friends of the Library we would love to have you. Annual membership dues are $5 for an individual, $10 for a family, and $50 for a business. Membership dues can be dropped off at the library, mailed to Friends of the Dickens County Spur Public Library, 403 East Hill Street, Spur, Texas 79370, or online via PayPal.
The Friends do not currently have a meeting schedule, but will in the near future. The purpose of this organization is to serve as an advocacy and support group of volunteers for the Dickens County Spur Public Library, to raise funds for library needs, to enrich activities in the community, and to promote literacy. When you shop through AmazonSmile with Friends of the Dickens County Spur Public Library as your chosen charity, a portion of the proceeds go to support the Friends.
If you are a regular reader of this column you know that my preferred method of reading is listening to audiobooks through our Libby app. I ran into a friend recently who told me about an audiobook he and his wife were listening to. I checked my Libby app for the book and was disappointed to find it wasn’t available, so the library purchased “Me & Patsy: Kickin’ up Dust” by Loretta Lynn in audiobook format for the Overdrive. It is now available on the Libby app. I was beaten to the draw on checking it out, but I am second in line after putting a hold on it. I am looking forward to reading about the friendship between these two icons of country music.
While shopping in the Overdrive marketplace I saw another title that caught my eye. “The Queen’s Gambit” by Walter Tevis. As a fan of the Netflix original series based on the book, I felt this might also be a good read. The inside flap of the book reads: “Orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she’s competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as she hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting. Engaging and fast-paced, ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four.”
You don’t have to play the game of chess to appreciate this work of fiction. I have personally only played one game in my life and was completely taken in by the characters and storyline. This is what the Fort Worth Star-Telegram says about the novel: “There’s more excitement in Beth than in the collected works of Robert Ludlum.”
We have Stephen King’s “Joyland” now available at the library. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, “Joyland” tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Check it out at the Library!
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