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Old book unfinished, new one is better

I confess. I wasn’t able to finish Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I’m sure it’s a very good book and I hope that the author will appear on talk shows and that will motivate me to finish the novel. Here’s the deal: I give myself one week (seven days) to finish a book. So if I read 50 pages a day, that means the book is very good and I don’t want to put it down. Potentially, I can read a 350 page book in a week. Fifty pages a day was a struggle for me and then another book that I had on hold arrived. Isn’t that always the way? Every time I put ...

12 ways you save money with a Juniata County Library card

When my father was growing up and would move to a new town, the first thing he would do is find the nearest library and get a library card. One of the many things he taught me was how to save money and find ways to cut costs. A free library card with the Juniata County Library is your ticket to saving money! Any Pennsylvania resident, from Juniata county or any of the other 66 counties, can get a Juniata County library card for free. Here are 12 ways you can save money and cut costs with your free Juniata County Library card: 1. Borrow books from us: We carry over 50,000 physical ...

Reading Jimmy’s Book Club selection

A couple of months ago, I wrote that I was eagerly waiting for Jimmy Fallon to begin his Book Club selection. In the past, and really, he’s only done this twice before, Jimmy would talk about a different book each night, usually in July. On Friday, after the show aired, viewers could vote on Twitter for the book that they thought they wanted to read for the Fallon Book Club. I don’t have Twitter, but I wanted to see which books would be talked about and which book would be the big winner. Sometime in August, the author appeared and Jimmy interviewed them. Not this year! This ...

Library workers face trauma, stress and burnout on the job

Presented at the 2022 American Library Association’s (ALA) annual conference was a groundbreaking study that detailed the trauma, stress, and burnout library workers face in the workplace. The results of the study are relevant to not only library workers but customer service workers outside of libraries. Andrew Albanese in Publishers Weekly summarized the study titled “The 2022 Urban Libraries Unite Trauma Study,” which draws upon “a wide-ranging literature review, survey responses from more than 435 urban library workers (conducted between August and September 2021), focus ...

Seeing what’s right in front of you

Have you ever had the chance to see your community through a visitor’s perspective? I recently had such an opportunity, and the experience was quite eye opening. I was assisting on tours showing prospective transplants what our area had to offer.At the end of each tour, I asked the group to tell me what they saw as the pros and cons of our area.I am pleased to report that there were zero cons!Now on to the pros. The No. 1 comment I heard from multiple individuals was that the people here are so friendly.I think that is something we take for granted.As we walk down the street it is ...

GOP-led economic recovery agenda gives boost in state business survey

In January of 2021, we stood in Pennsylvania’s Capitol to announce the formation of an Economic Recovery Task Force that would inform the Commonwealth’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Pennsylvania of nearly 20 months ago was very different — we were all masked, socially distant, and yet to have access to today’s vaccines and treatments — we knew that we would need a serious effort to correct our economic trajectory and meet the challenges ahead of us. We knew then we needed to start the work of marshalling Pennsylvania’s legislative resources to ...