Welcome back!

Welcome back everyone! I hope you had a relaxing spring break! Whether you were sunning yourself on a beach somewhere or sitting in your backyard, I hope you had a good book to read.

My favorite book I read over break was The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson (she also wrote Bridge to Terabithia). In 1999, author Katherine Paterson's church sponsored a family to come to America from war-torn Kosovo. One of the members of her church mentioned to Katherine Paterson the idea that she could write a book about a fictional Albanian Kosovar family and the circumstances that they would have faced in their turbulent country near the turn of the twentieth century. The result of this idea is The Day of the Pelican.

I learned a lot about the struggles Albanian's faced during the conflict and what it would be like to leave your home, family and friends to start a new life in a country where you don't speak the language. I highly recommend this book!

Keeping Corner Book Review

Happy New Year everyone! Sorry for the delay in adding to the blog. There was some red tape that I needed to work through with the district to be able to keep the blog active.

Now that I am back and ready to give you all sorts of library related information, I will start with a good book I recently read titled Keeping Corner by Indian author Kashmira Sheth.

I purchased this book for the LRC because the author is coming to the Warren Newport Library in April. I love books that teach me things about cultures of far away lands, either in the past or current day. This book did just that! Set in Gujarat, India in 1918, the story gives readers an in depth look at the marriage laws of the time and what a woman had in store for her if she had the unfortunate luck of becoming a widow. It also touches on the political view of the time, women’s rights and the influence Gandhiji had over the Indian people.

I truly enjoyed this book and I look forward to reading another book by the same author!