My book club, "The Inklings"

Tonight I get to go to my monthly book club meeting. We try to read one "classic" book a year and this month's book, The Woman in White by Wilke Collins, certainly fills that requirement. Collins, a contemporary and friend of Charles Dickens, wrote this novel in 1859 and origianally published it as a weekly serial. Considered one of the first mystery novels ever written, it kept my attention despite it's length (over 500 pages!). I really look forward to meeting my friends and talking about our current book. We've been meeting together for over six years and truly it's one of the highlights of each month. I encourage you to form a group and read a book together. You'll be surprised how much more you'll get out of a book when you discuss it with your book club.

Summer reads

Between life and my master's classes I haven't had a lot of time to read this summer. However, I did managed to finish Eragon the other day and look forward to the second book: Eldest. Summer nights seem to get me in the mood for fantasy reading and these books by Christopher Paolini allowed me to travel to another time and world without leaving my home. If you haven't picked up a good fantasy book lately, why not give it a try this summer? I think you'll be glad you did.

my next entry!

Have you ever wondered how a computer's mouse arrow moves around inside your computer? I just learned of a web site that magnifies the screen lens to reveal how it works. Check this out! http://www.1-click.jp/ I'm sure you'll go away totally amazed to see the actual workings of this mechanism.

I hope you're enjoying the summer. School will start before you know it, so have some fun in the sun while you can.

Getting started

Welcome to my first blog entry for the 2007-2008 school year. I know, you all are having a great summer vacation, but I am in graduate school and this is my homework. I hope to use this blog for a place to let students and staff know about new books and technology at the CHS library. For now I just want to get started and get this set up. Watch for further entries and be sure to comment if you want to. I hope I get back to this soon.

Mrs. Hightower