FORFAR LIBRARY CORNER, JANUARY 13
JIM Broon, author of the popular agribiography "Brocht Up in the Country", will speak at the Forfar Library reminiscing afternoon on Tuesday, February 2.
Nowadays staying at Newtyle, Jim retired after 30 years working with DC Thomson and is now a guide in the agricultural section of the Angus Folk Museum in Glamis. Jim is also a well known local musician and a much enjoyed speaker. His book has been a very popular addition to libraries all over Angus.
Jim's talk is part of our regular monthly "Time to Remember" reminiscing afternoons in Forfar Library. Around a dozen local folk come along to talk about old times in discussions lead by library staff, to try quizzes based on old Forfar, or to listen to speakers on topics ranging from Forfar's ghosts to the natural history of Forfar Loch.
New people are always warmly welcomed and if you are interested, we encourage you to come to the Library on the first Tuesday of every month, telephone 01307 466071 for more information, or pop along on February 2 at 2.30pm.
Channel Four's new series, "The TV Book Club" starts this Sunday with a line-up of new presenters including Jo Brand and Gok Wan. Each week the presenters will discuss a book, rate and review it, invite comments from other readers and show features on authors.
If you'd like to read along with the TV Book Club, Angus Libraries already have copies of each of the six titles with more on the way. If you're not yet a library member, don't forget that it's free to join and you can borrow books free for 28 days. Just bring along some identification with your name and current address and another piece of identification with your signature.
This month's recommended read is from librarian Fiona Dakers and it's the first book to be discussed in Channel 4's new show - "The Little Stranger" by Sarah Waters.
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds.
Its owners - mother, son and daughter - are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayres haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?
Fiona said: "This was the first Sarah Waters book I've read and I did enjoy it. The descriptions of Hundreds give the story great atmosphere and you can feel the family's love/hate attachment to the house and see why Dr Faraday falls in love with it.
"I thought it was a little long to sustain the ghost story feeling throughout, although the episode in the nursery was spine-tingling. I'm still not sure what the reader is meant to make of Dr Faraday and his motives - frankly I couldn't warm to him - but it will be interesting to hear what the celebrity reviewers made of him. I loved the ending though - I'll say no more!"
"The Little Stranger" is available in the adult fiction section of Forfar Library.
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Thursday 09 February 2012
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