Observations

Although I did not post anything this wekend, I spent some time ruminating on the purpose of blogs. As simple on-line journals, their purpose seems quite straightforward- a personal diary. But as I subscribe to a number of blogs through my RSS feed (which I learned about at last year’s conference), I realize that blogs have as many purposes as authors. So then I thought about what my purpose would be- aside from the fact that this is an assignment to enable us to become comfortable with the blogging format. As you will see from the title of my blog, books are always going to be my focus. So I believe that if I continue this blog after our course is over, it may turn into a rather rambly discourse on what I’m reading and enjoying now; both children and adult literature. Not that I have much time for the adult stuff at the moment.

The other concern for many bloggers seems to be- I write, but will anyone read and comment? Or should we care? So this blogging experience should help me to decide what my priority will be- blogging in such a way and with content others may wish to read or as a way to contain some of my scattered thoughts and memories and make them more useful personally. But enough of that for now!! On to books!

I was saddened last week to read of Madeline L’Engle’s death. I have admired her and loved her works for a long time and had the privilege of meeting her when she came to Bookworm’s Den in Saskatoon. I have a much treasured, autographed copy of a Wrinke In Time. My son in Ontario e-mailed me a link to a site with a review of her life, as we read many of her books at the same time.

This weekend’s read was Eyes of A Stalker- a Shelby Belgarden mystery writtten by Valerie Sherrard. I thoroughy enjoyed this  light, fast-paced novel- totally appropriate for our YA section 0f the library. Valerie is the author of Sam’s Light, which was a Snow Willow nomination several years ago and a very powerful novel.

So that’s it for today. I have not included comments on any other of this year’s Snow Willow titles- at this point, they can be found on my library blog