We will be having craft night on Monday, September 6, from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. at the Spur library. We will be doing a variety of crafts using crayons. We have some wreath forms. If you have a wreath form you would like to use, please bring it. We will also be making pencil holders using crayons. I have been practicing making both, and they are fun to make. We will be using hot glue, so please try to bring your own hot glue gun and extra glue sticks. The crayons will be provided. Since we will be using hot glue, children must be accompanied by an adult.
School has been under way for a couple of weeks now. This year’s school supply drive at the library is officially over. We were able to supply over 65 Dickens County students with all the supplies needed to begin the school year. If anyone needs to replenish some supplies during the school year let us know and we will see if we have it.
“Merci Suarez Can’t Dance” by the Newbery Medal–winning author of “Merci Suarez Changes Gears” Meg Medina, is one of the large print books in our new youth large print section. The suggested age group for it is 9–12. Also available in our youth large print section is “Dear Sweet Pea” by Julie Murphy. Kirkus reviews had this to say about the book: “Endearing and funny… An excellent blend of eccentricity, humor, genuine sweetness, and mild drama.” These plus many more were made possible by the Texas Book Festival grant.
Also available because of the Texas Book Festival grant is from the master of horror, Stephen King. King brings us a thrilling new novel about a good guy with a bad job in “Billy Summers.”
Chilling and compulsively readable, touching on timely issues that include power, agency, appropriation, and creation, “Dream Girl” by Laura Lippman is a superb blend of psychological suspense and horror that reveals the mind and soul of a writer.
In “Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things” by Kelly Williams Brown, crafting tutorials serve as the backdrop of a life dissolved, then glued back together. Surprising, humane, and utterly unforgettable, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the unexpected, messy coping mechanisms we use to find ourselves again.
A few Western fiction largeprint novels were added to our shelves this week courtesy of the Tocker Foundation grant. They are “Haunted Border” by Patrick Dearen, “Ride the Hammer Down” by Terrence McCauley and Ralph Compton, “The Return of the Wolf” by Larry D. Sweazy, and “Curly Jack” by McKendree Long.
Check it all out at the library.
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