We are celebrating "I Love To Read" month in February. Some librarians call it "Love Your Librarian" month. In an effort to thwart inappropriate outpourings of affection to the library staff, we are focusing on book-loving, not librarian-loving. Librarians can spot a book lover from 30-yards. During a blizzard the book lover will go to the library first, then to the grocery store, because you can survive without food easier than without a book. A book lover prefers to go to lunch with a book, rather than another human being. A book lover prefers to go to bed with a book, rather than — . Well, you catch my drift. Next week, Children’s Librarian, April, will have a special 1-, 2-, 3-year-olds story hour to which moms and dads, grandpas and grandmas, aunts and uncles are invited. If you want to bring your fourth cousin from Cleveland, that’s OK, too. Story hour begins at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at the library. Naturally we have new books in for "I Love to Read" month. The long-awaited legal thriller, by John Grisham, "The Last Juror," is cataloged and on the shelf. In 1970, The Ford County Times, was owned by a 23-year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper.The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Miss. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, a life-sentence didn't necessarily mean "life," and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began. Also new on the shelf this week is "Paranoia," by Joseph Finder. Adam Cassidy is 26 and a low level employee at a high-tech corporation who hates his job. When he manipulates the system to do something nice for a friend, he finds himself charged with a crime. Corporate Security gives him a choice: prison — or become a spy in the headquarters of their chief competitor, Trion Systems.They train him. They feed him inside information. Now, at Trion, he's a star, skyrocketing to the top. He finds he has talents he never knew he possessed. He's rich, drives a Porsche, lives in a fabulous apartment, and works directly for the CEO. He's dating the girl of his dreams. His life is perfect. And all he has to do to keep it that way is betray everyone he cares about and everything he believes in.But when he tries to break off from his controllers, he finds he's in way over his head, trapped in a world in which nothing is as it seems and no one can really be trusted. And then the real nightmare begins ...
