Thanks to everyone who contributed to and stopped in and shopped/bid/bought
raffle tickets at the Holiday Sale on Saturday. The sale was a great success, and an enormous help to the library.
Special thanks to Moe Wilson and the Friends of the Morrill Library for
coordinating this annual event.
There are some paperwhites (about to bloom) still for sale at the library, and
about 20 wreaths left (on Linehan's porch) ---- they are $15.

The reading group will next meet at the end of January: Wednesday, Jan. 26th,
at 1 pm, to discuss the book "Parrot and Olivier in America" by Peter Carey. There was a great turnout for the last meeting, which we hope continues. I'm trying to borrow
some copies of the book through ILL...... it will be available in a paperback
edition on Jan. 11.	A brief description: "In this work of historical
fiction, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey imagines the experiences of
Alexis de Tocqueville..... through the fictionalized character of Olivier de
Garmont, a coddled and conceited French aristocrat. Olivier can only begin to
grasp how the other half lives when forced to travel to the New World with John
"Parrot" Larrit, a jaded survivor of lifelong hardship. Parrot and Olivier are
a mid-nineteenth-century Oscar and Felix who represent the highest and lowest
social registers of the Old World, yet find themselves unexpectedly pushed
together in the New World. This odd couple's stark differences in class and
background, outlook and attitude which are explored in alternating chapters narrated by each are an ingenious conceit for presenting to contemporary readers the unique social experiment that was democracy in the early years of America."

Thursday: "After School Fun at the Library" will focus on holiday card making
this week, after a snack and read-aloud.
Friday: Storytime at 10 for preschoolers!

More new arrivals: "Rescue" by Anita Shreve, "Trespass" by Rose Tremain, "Dead
or Alive" by Tom Clancy, "The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray" by Walter Mosley,
"Cleopatra" by Stacy Schiff, "In the Kitchen With a Good Appetite" by Melissa
Clark;
and some DVD's: It's Complicated, The Karate Kid, Ramona and Beezus and The
Wizard of Oz (70th anniversary!)