We’re almost into summer and summer holidays (although you wouldn’t really know it when you check the weather forecast. And Summer at Millarville Library means our popular and award-winning (yes we received an award from the Marigold Library system last year) Summer Reading (and fun) Program. It will be a drop-in program as it was last year. The Library has also received funding from AHS and FDS (Foothills School District) for summer programs. These programs will be for all ages (Mom and tot, school aged, teen and adult only). Most of them will deal with Mental health, issues, bullying, anxiety etc. Watch the library FB, Instagram and website for more information or call our librarian Natasha Grusendorf at 403-931-3991.
By the time you read this we will have enjoyed our annual local Book Club Wine and Cheese. There are 12 active book clubs in the area and we invite members from each book club to share their favourites. It will be great to socialize with everyone again. The book clubs are so diverse it is a great way to hear about books that otherwise might not have crossed our radar. In next month’s newsletter we will list these titles for you, just in time for summer reading!
A great new book in our library is “French Braid” by beloved Man Booker and Pulitzer winner Ann Tyler. Ann Tyler has written 20 plus book and many of our slightly maturer readers (this writer included) have read them all! This one is a funny, joyful, perspective journey deep into the foibles of one Baltimore family, from a boyfriend with a red chevy in the 1950s to a longed for reunion with a grandchild during Covid.
Full of heartbreaks and hilarity “French Braid” is classic Ann Tyler. It is an uncannily insightful novel of warmth and humour that illuminates the kindness and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those we love and how close, yet ultimately unknowable every family is to itself.
