What a wonderful Easter Baby Bounce! Thanks everyone for attending - SDV

Seniors Week at the Library

Today we celebrated Seniors week with over eighty seasoned citizens turning out to watch the Sing Australia Choir regale them with classic tunes such as "We are Australian", "Blue Moon" and "Two Little Boys". The choir showed off their skills with a fine montage of "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" and "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag". 

Accompanying Sing Australia was the Lake Wyangan Public School Choir for their debut performance. The promising young vocal talent brought to life many good time tunes with special exuberance for the golden oldie "Lollipop".

Local poet Lance Parker followed up with a humorous and most entertaining original take on two classic fairytales; 'Little Red Riding Hood" and "Three Little Pigs".

 

Over 100 spectators turned out to enjoy the Seniors Week show.

  

The Sing Australia Choir accompanied by the Lake Wyangan Public School Choir.

 

Local poet extraordinaire, Lance Parker.



Hi everyone,
This is my first blog for the year so I thought I'd start with a real winner.  The book is written by an Australian woman named Amanda Webster and the topic is anorexia.  Amanda's son Riche developed anorexia when he was 11 years old.  The story tells of Amanda's agonising journey to save Riche's life as well as being a mother to two other children and a wife to her husband Kevin. 

The anorexia consumed Riche so much that he believed that he could gain calories by touching people, by them floating through the air, or by him being in the vacinity of food.  The book also focuses on the treatment of anorexia and the lack of understand from the medical establishment. 

This book is a must for anyone who loves an emotional read.  Don't expect to have dry eyes at the end.  SDV

The Light Behind The Window - Lucinda Riley

Here is a book about two women whose lives could not be more different, one, an english rose thrust into the belly of WWII, the other a rather irritatingly naive heiress. Never the less, it was quite difficult to put this one down. I could not help but fall in love with the characters. Riley's depiction of the landscape and her talented story telling of espionage, deceit of course romance, wrap you up like a warm blanket.

So why is it that after reading a novel that just captures my imagination, is it so difficult to go on to another book. After reading Lucinda Riley's the Light Behind the Window, I have been left with my bedside table full of books that just "don't do it for me". Hubby tells me to just take them back to the library, but I feel that I should at least give them a chance! Rose

Enter our Colour-in Competition 0-13years. Loads of choccy prizes!!SDV

Easter Storytime, Colouring-in Competitions can be picked up now! Join us for the fun... SDV





The Perks of being a what? a what? a Wallflower?

So I just finished 'The perks of being a wallflower' and I have to admit that I didn't really get it.. People have been talking about, its apparently the new 'it' book, and up until page 175 (the library copy has 213 pages in total) I can honestly say 'I really didn't get it'.

I mean does this kid have some sort of mental disorder? What 15/16 year old kid talks like this? Why is it written as letters? And who the heck is 'Friend'?

All I can say is you find out some of the answers to the above, and some you don't get to find at all.

I think after page 175 it really kicked in who this kid might be and why people have loved it. Its raw, it’s sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and almost always filled with cringe-worthy moments, like smoking weed and some vivid sex scenes (not exactly for the younger teens).

Would I recommend it... I'm still not sure, how weird is that to say after you've finished book? Its just I think it’s not a book for everyone and I'm still not sure I can say I liked it... strange! Maybe it's just one of things you can't say you loved or loathed; you just read it and possibly learnt something.

According to a good friend of mine the movie is amazing (one of the best he has seen recently - and he watches quite a few movies)... so there you go...

Really I'm starting to feel like this post is a post about nothing...maybe my post is being a wallflower?

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (by Stephen Chbosky) - read it or don't.

Available at all good libraries - Including Griffith City

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