The County Library discussion

March is Community Cares month at the library. Be on the lookout for programs at the library with the #CommunityCares.

Since our theme is Community Cares, your challenge is to read a book about a Community Helper. What's a Community Helper? It's someone who's job directly benefits the community, like teachers, postal workers, garbage truck drivers, librarians, fire fighters, police officers, social workers, snow plow operators, farmers, etc.

Make sure you let me know when you've finished your book and how it relates to a community helper to be entered into the drawing to win a free book.

Here are a few suggestions:
Picture Books:
Keeping the City Going
Doctor Ted
Thank You, Neighbor!

Nonfiction:
How the Post Office Created America: A History
Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Heart Berries
Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena
Librarian Tales: Funny, Strange, and Inspiring Dispatches from the Stacks

Fiction:
In Place of Fear
Sea Swept
Trashlands
Welcome to the School by the Sea
Compared
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The Enigma Affair

I love this!

So excited for this challenge! I am going to read a book that's been sitting on my shelf for too long. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes. It's about a group of women who ran a traveling library in Depression-era Kentucky. I've heard this book is amazing and I am really looking forward to reading it.

I am so glad that this is the challenge this month. My mom has been talking to me about The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes for a while not but I just haven't found the time to read it. I will be nice to talk to her about it after I have finished it.

The book club that I run at the Taylorsville Senior Center read The Giver of Stars last year. It was really interesting because The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is on similar themes, and we had also read that earlier, so we ended up comparing and contrasting them a lot.

I'm going to read My Life Among The Underdogs A Memoir by Tia Torres, from the show Pitbulls and Parolees.

I just read Keeping the City Going!

Well hey, I already have The Giver of Stars checked out for a book club, so I guess I may jump on that wagon lol

I'm really hoping people find interesting and different books for this challenge.

I am going to read The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin

That one looks really good Deborah! I just added it to my want-to-read list. :)

I am going to continue a series I started and read Saving Mr. Terupt It is the third in the series. Mr Terupt is a teacher that the students absolutely love.
I will have to move Giver of Stars higher up on my to read list.

I read The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives by Theresa Brown.

3/3 for 2023

Greg wrote: "I'm reading
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
by Theresa Brown."

That sounds really good!

I have read The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and The Giver of Stars. I enjoyed them both and hope you all will as well. I am reading The Moonlight School for this month's challenge. It appears to have a similar topic to the packhorse library topic. Completed 3/14. The main character reads letters to illiterate community members and writes out replies for them in early 20th century Kentucky.

Elizabeth wrote: "Greg wrote: "I'm reading
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
by Theresa Brown."

That sounds really good!"

It was really good! 4 stars from me!

I finished My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir by Tia Torres. Her pitbull rescue in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA is the largest in the world.

On a side note, Animal Planet canceled their show. This is the last season of Pitbulls and Parolees.

Em wrote: "I have read The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and The Giver of Stars. I enjoyed them both and hope you all will as well. I am reading The Moonlight School for this month's challen..."

I read that book and it is really good.

Ooh I've been meaning to read the Mr Terupt books too.
So many choices.

My wife recently read The Giver of Stars, and thought I’d like it, so I’ll give it a go!

I'm responding to this thread again purely in hopes that doing so on my laptop (as opposed to in the app on my phone) will mean I actually get the notifications for new posts.

Britt, Book Habitue wrote: "I'm responding to this thread again purely in hopes that doing so on my laptop (as opposed to in the app on my phone) will mean I actually get the notifications for new posts."

I hope so too, Britt.

Hey it worked!
I read the readers' choice book If You Ask Me, which features an advice columnist and a firefighter so actually counts for this too!

Nice. I'm glad you got one done. Two birds with one stone.

I read Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued. It's a 2023 Beehive Award nominee. Nicholas Winston rescued 700 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before WWII closed the borders.

That is on my TBR list JoAnn.

I am reading Leeva At Last which is a recent release by Sara Pennypacker. Some librarians are very important to the main character. About half way through now but I should finish quickly since I am listening to it today.

I finished reading The Giver of Stars tonight and absolutely loved it. Best book of the year so far!

I did end up finishing Leeva At Last this evening.

Finished The Giver of Stars. Equal parts delightful and infuriating. A little "A Jury of her Peers" and I laughed out loud more than once.

I haven't participated here before but saw a book I wanted to read suggested here. Going to read Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian.

I just finished listening to The Giver of Stars - loved it!

I just finished reading The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes. This is my favorite book of the year so far. I was drawn in from the prologue and didn't want to put it down, and then I wanted to read it again as soon as I finished.

I finished Saving Mr. Terupt. It was a slow start but a great ending.

I finished The Librarian Spy Such a good book.

Will we have a new challenge before Saturday?

Yes! Just posted it. :D

Last day to tell me what you've read to be entered into the prize drawing!

Brittany is our prize drawing winner for March's 2023 reading challenge for reading The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes.

Congratulations!

Hooray! :D

Congrats, Brittany!

Good job, Brittany!