Staff Reading Journey

Library staff have been doing loads of reading over the last few months and some of them have been discussing their books on our forum- 'Book Chat', which is attached to this blog. If you want to chat with us then just click the tab at the top of this page and either post as an unregistered user or join (makes it easier to post regularly).
Also look out for our Staff Reading Journey posters on display in the Library. You can see whether anything we've read would interest you. I'll post some of the images on here in the next few weeks. 
Happy reading...

Happy New Year!

Hope you all had a good break and managed to read a few books while you were relaxing. The Library staff have certainly been bookworms and I've got new titles to add to their Reading Journeys. Don't forget you can use the forum (Book Chat) attached to this blog to talk about any new books/ authors you've come across and want to share with others, or if you just want to natter about other stuff you've read.
Thank you to all our Poetry Competition entrants. There are some really good efforts and the hard work you've put in has been clear to see; well done. We are reading through them at the moment and we hope to be able to announce the winner very soon. We'll keep you posted.
Have a great new year and we look forward to hearing more from you on our favourite subject: BOOKS!! Happy reading...

Christmas Time

Just a quick word to say thank you for reading the blog & forum this year and I hope you'll carry on in 2014.
The book blurbs for this month are all books which have been read (and enjoyed) by our Library staff, for their Reading Journeys.
Have a lovely break, whatever you may be doing and we'll get back to the chat about books in the New Year.
Merry Christmas!!

Poem for the Day

To help any of you budding poets out, who would like to enter our Poetry Competition, but are finding it hard to get started, I thought I would put an extract, or whole poem on the blog. We have a book available at Lower Mounts Library called Read Me and Laugh by Gaby Morgan, which is a collection of funny poems by lots of different writers. I will post each day's poem until the end of the competition, and maybe longer, if it proves to be popular. It will be on the left-hand side of the blog, under the 'Quote of the Week'. Have fun reading them!

New card design for the Reading Journey

For those of you who are ready for their next step in the Reading Journey, or for anyone who would like to join (pop into any Library Centre and ask staff for details), we have a beautiful wintery scene adorning our latest card.

Makes you feel warm and toasty doesn't it?