1. I have an odd relationship with reading. My parents and their families were diametrically opposed where reading was concerned. I have drifted in and out of periods of reading in my life. Right now, I’m in. My mom’s family (and my mom) were ALWAYS in.
2. Speaking of reading, I just started reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner. (Thanks to Tony and Margie from Back Roads and Other Stories for reminding me of this book.) It made me wonder how many Pulitzer Prize winning novels or other fiction pieces I have read. Not as many as I thought! Here’s a link if you care to see how many you have read. I will be very impressed if anyone has read them all! Pulitzer Prize Winners
3. When I was perusing newspaper articles last week, I discovered a recurring column which listed all the small rural communities and their use of the Bookmobile (did you check out books from the bookmobile?) Our little mountain community always had one of the highest numbers for books checked out and one of the lowest numbers for overdue books. The father of one of my oldest and dearest online friends drove a Bookmobile. She once sent me articles about him. That was sweet. I never knew a Bookmobile driver.
4. Iva Lou Wade is a character in Andriana Trigiani’s book Big Stone Gap. Iva Lou is the Bookmobile librarian/driver. What a great character! I love Trigiani’s character development. I am also very familiar with this very real community of Big Stone Gap as it is not far from where I grew up.
5. Speaking of Adrianna Trigiani, she was a very successful producer on both ‘The Cosby Show’ and ‘Different World’. So talented.
That’s it for the five things running through my mind on this late Friday morning.
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We still have a ‘bookmobile’ that comes to Beetley. Over here, it is called by the grander name, ‘Mobile Library’. It was suspended in February because of the pandemic, and has been sorely missed by many local people who relied on it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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We have a bookmobile here, too, Pete. I do not know if it is running or not. Reading has been so important to so many during the pandemic.
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On my TBR list is The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes based on the true story of the horseback librarians of Kentucky, which I think sounds fascinating.
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Mary, I recently finished “The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek” which is said to be a very similar book. I will be interested to hear what you think of Moyes book.
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Is that the one about which there has been some controversy around which author ‘took’ the idea of the other?
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That is the one.
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Guess I’ll have to read both 🙂
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