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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Libary renovations

As you will all be aware we are about to embark on renovations at Bowral Library. Our library is now 10 years old and it's time for an update. We will be closed from the 1st of July and will re-open on Friday the 10th July. During this time requests for items from Bowral Library made online via the library website between Monday 29th July and Friday 10th July cannot be processed. Please do not place any requests during this time. Moss Vale and Mittagong Libraries will be open for business as usual.
We look forward to seeing again after the 10th.
Helen

Friday, June 12, 2009

Listen by Kate Veitch

“Daphne. That smell is the loveliest thing … and if you’ve got a good bush growing, you never want to shift it, you know that don’t you darl?”
“Yeah, I’ve heard that “ Olivia said. “Daphne doesn’t like to be moved”.
“Too right,” Alex said. “I made that mistake once, you know. I made that mistake with a young lady. I moved her and I thought she was in the right spot, I thought she was happy, but no. She just couldn’t adjust to the new place. Roots just didn’t take.”
That’s the only time Alex spoke of his former wife, Rosemarie, the mother of his four children, who did the unspeakable and left them all… on Christmas Eve in 1967. Forty years later the children, all coping with her disappearance in different ways, are adults when they find out she is still alive.
Set in Australia, this novel explores families and their secrets, life’s challenges and the undeniable love that holds everything together.
I laughed, I cried, and being a child of this era, I understood. This is a great read.
Helen

Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke

Being a fantasy enthusiast, I saw this series, consisting of Inkheart, Inkspell and Inkdeath, and became impelled to delve into the lives of Meggie and her father Mo who have the extraordinary gift of being able to read characters and/or objects out of books, which is a gift some of us would love to have. But, it comes with a price, what comes out must go in. Unfortunately, this is what happened to Meggie’s mother, Resa, when Mo read Inkheart to her. She went into the story while the cruel and heartless villain, Capricorn, and the soft hearted fire-eater, Dustfinger, came out.
The series follows Meggie and Mo’s search to rescue Resa and their adventures in and out of the book. Along the way, they have the aide and support of The Black Prince, Farid (a character read from ‘One Thousand and One Nights), Fenoglio (author of Inkheart), Doria, Roxanne, Great-aunt Elinor and many more exciting characters within the Strolling Players. But, with every friend and ally, there are an equal number of unscrupulous and evil characters, such as Milksop, Adderhead, Orpheus, Mortola, The Piper, and Sootbird.
I thoroughly enjoyed these series of books. They captivated me with their story of mystery, fantasy and adventure, and found it hard to put them down. Although, I did find the final book of the series was quite drawn out as I was eager to find out the fate of the characters, but was pleasantly surprised by the end.
Amy