The chairs have arrived for the children’s computer completing that initiative, all children are invited to come and try some of the games and puzzles that make up the Magic Desktop suite.
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Seven MPS residents enjoyed their visit to the Library a week ago to see the Henry Lawson biographical display and enjoy morning tea.
This week’s New Materials display incorporates more adult fiction and nonfiction. “Gut: the inside story of our body’s most under-rated organ” by Giulia Enders must be the most unlikely bestseller of all time but deals with something that affects us all in an informative yet informal way.
With the Henry Lawson Festival fast approaching “The Mad Louisa” is a timely acquisition, a fascinating biography of Henry’s mother, Louisa, a poet in her own right and also a social reformer and feminist. Fiction writers represented include Tamara McKinley, Faye Kellerman and Jo Nesbo.
Congratulations to Heather Buckley, lucky winner of this year’s Friends of Grenfell Library Mothers’ Day raffle. Thank you to Margaret Whitty and Elaine Keys for organising the raffle and to those who supported the library by buying tickets.
Our Summer Reading Club reviewer this week is Darryl Knapp who wrote about “Australians, Volume 3: Flappers to Vietnam” by Thomas Keneally.
“In Australia’s recent past, who stands out as your heroes and villains?
“Thomas Keneally, author of such books as “The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith” and “Schindler’s Ark”, has produced a multi-volume work on Australian history, volume 3 of which is entitled “Australians: Flappers to Vietnam”. Closely examining Australia’s history from the 1920s to the 60s Keneally draws together documentary evidence and the views of a wide range of people contemporaneous to the events to give his readers a more ‘warts and all’ look at our heroes and villains. As one example were those who vehemently upheld the White Australia policy after World War 1 heroes because they prevented Japan from rapidly encroaching on our borders or villains because their attitude incensed the Japanese and saw them hell-bent on building an empire to prove their superiority?
“My own perceptions of Australia’s recent heroes and villains were severely bruised by Keneally’s careful and balanced research and writing. This confirmed him as one of my literary heroes.”
