by Miriam Toews, 2021 This is the 2nd book selection for the Old Town Library Book Club 2025-2026. It was very different, very funny in spots, a wonderment, sometimes irritating, but touching and beautiful. The story takes place in Toronto. There are 4 main characters: Grandma, Mom, Swiv, and Gord. Swiv is 9 years old, […]
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Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America
Mike Yankoski, 2005 An excellent book on homelessness, recommended in the packet of materials Wayne got from Harvest Farm. As a young man, Mike Yankoski decided to show his faith by living as a homeless man for 5 months. He and Sam, a volunteer who became a good friend, stayed about a month each in […]
Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books
by Kirsten Miller, 2024 This is the first selection for the Old Town Library Book Club for 2025-2026, and the Fort Collins Reads Headliner for 2025. It was an easy read, about a fictional southern town, Troy, Georgia, filled with good people and bad people. One of the bad people is Lula Dean, an ignorant, […]
Understanding the Changing Brain: A Positive Approach to Dementia Care
by Teepa Snow, 2021 Mom’s OT, Kaylee, recommended Teepa Snow’s book, “Dementia Caregiver Guide: Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care techniques for caregiving, Alzheimer’s, and other forms of dementia,” but the library didn’t have that one. So, I got this one from the library and checked it out. It’s compassionate, caring, loving, accepting, positive, and […]
Out of Zion: Meeting Jesus in the Shadow of the Mormon Temple
by Lisa Brockman, 2019 This book was on the monthly e-mail list of recommended biographies from the Poudre River Library. It really showed me the insides of what Mormons believe, and it is complete BS. Wow! She loved her Mormonism and it was her life as a child and a young teenager. When she started […]
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler, 1982 I got this book from a Little Free Library and it was on my stack for a long time. I finally read it and it was GOOD! The main characters are Mom (Pearl), Cody (oldest son), Jenny (daughter), Ezra (youngest son). Mom is a mean, terrifying, abusive woman but filled with […]
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers, 2000, 2001 (First Vintage Books Edition: February 2001) I got this book from the Little Free Library in front of Poppy’s house on Locust Street. It was mostly laugh out loud funny and I adored it until the end. It’s a memoir. Dave’s father and mother died within 5 weeks of each […]
Blood Work
by Michael Connelly, 1998 Really good book – I got it from the Little Free Library in Cooper Landing, Alaska, along the bike path. It’s a crime mystery. A former FBI agent, Terry McCaleb, has received a heart transplant. The heart was from a murdered woman, Gloria Torres. Gloria’s sister, Graciela, comes to Terry while […]
London After Midnight
Selected and Edited by Peter Haining, 1996 I got this book from a Little Free Library, I think the one by the Spring Park Fire Station. It was fun! There were 22 short stories by various authors. The stories were detective mysteries. I read this book while up in Alaska for 3 weeks with Adam, […]
Joshua: A Parable for Today
by Joseph F. Girzone, 1995 Danette recommended I read this book, one of her favorites, while I was up in Alaska June 2025. It’s about a modern day Jesus who comes to live in a small American village. He is a simple carpenter, working with wood, but he carves statues that are beautiful. He is […]
The Diary of Mattie Spenser
by Sandra Dallas, 1998 Carol Sparks gave me this book to read in the airport and on the airplane on the way to Alaska. It kept me entertained during the entire trip. I finished it in one day. I left it in a beautiful Little Free Library on the Snug Harbor Road in Cooper Landing, […]
Sunrise on the Reaping
by Suzanne Collins, 2025 Book 5 of the Hunger Games series. Hopeless and depressing – the prequel to Katniss and Peeta’s story. This is about the 50th anniversary of the Hunger Games, when Haymitch Abernathy is taken from District 12. He’s a 16 year-old and he narrates the story, and it’s awful – everyone he […]
The Book Woman’s Daughter
by Kim Michele Richardson, 2022 Pat was reading this so I decided to get it from the library and read it. It was not as good as The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. There is a really bad dude (Perry Gillis) in this one and he causes so much heartache and misery. He kills his […]
Miss Silver Comes to Stay
by Patricia Wentworth, 1948 I got this book from a Little Free Library. It is a fun mystery. It’s set in 1940’s England, in a charming little village. You think you know who murdered James Lessiter all along, but it turns out to be someone completely unsuspected. Miss Silver, a beloved elderly governess turned private […]
Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl, written in 9 days in 1945, first published 1946 Danette recommended this book, along with The Tattooist of Auschwitz. I’ve wanted to read it for a long time. The copy I read includes 6 parts: a Foreword by Harold S. Kushner; the Preface to the 1992 Edition; Part I, the story […]
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
by Mark Twain, 1899 This is the last story in the Pudd’nhead Wilson book. It’s about a town, Hadleyburg, in which the residents pride themselves on their honesty. A man comes to town once and is hurt so badly, he devises a plan to get back at the town and expose their hypocrisy. After a […]
Those Extraordinary Twins
by Mark Twain, 1894 This is the second story in the Pudd’nhead Wilson book. It’s about true Siamese twins, Luigi and Angelo, and it’s crazy! He presents them in all seriousness, though. They come to live with Aunt Patsy Cooper and her daughter, Rowena. The whole town comes to love them. One is serious (Angelo) […]
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris, 2018 Danette recommended this book. It was very, very good. Took you into the lives of Lale and Gita, two Slovak Jews who meet in Auschwitz and it is love at first sight. Lale is the tattooist, the man who tattoos the numbers on the inmates. They somehow survive Auschwitz-Birkenau and, when […]
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel, 2014 Found this book in a Little Free Library and it happens to be the Old Town Library’s April 2025 book selection. It was a good book, very well written with really interesting characters, but sort of wandering. It’s about a Traveling Symphony in a world after a flu kills […]
For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind
by Tulsi Gabbard, 2024 Adam asked me to read this book. He forewarned me that it would make me mad. I should have asked him why he thought it would make me mad. I think the thing that makes him mad is how when Tulsi was running for President, and had completed her first debate […]