Musical Kick-Off Concert by Little Mozart Academy

Wednesday, Jun. 18, 1:00 PM

The Little Mozart Academy students and Director, Gabriela Morillo-Bohnett presented a special concert to kick-off our 2008 Summer Reading Program.

If you missed the concert, we have some pictures and a video clip for you to watch.

Summertime and the Reading is Easy

It's summertime and my reading is easy. School is out forever, my kids are working real grown up jobs, and things have slowed down around my house. The gardens are all planted, mostly weeded, and all that rain is doing a great job of keeping them watered. So it's time to kick back and relax.


Even on a sunny hot day the hammock is in shade - beckoning. I grab some cold lemonade to stick in the hammock webbing, maybe the cell phone so I can make calls if I wish, some really bad for you but delicious junk food (crunchy cheese curls or gum drops are a good choice), a book or two and disappear out back. No watch, no house phone (they can call back), and deny all dirty laundry, piles and dust. This is my time.


Truly, all this happens only a few times over the course of the summer but when it does I have no guilt, no problem ignoring the rest of the world and I always wonder why I don't do this more often.

Adult Book Discussion July 2008

Monday, Jul. 14, 7:00 PM OR Tuesday, Jul. 15, 1:30 PM.
Book discussion of Family by J. California Cooper.

Just another sad, horrible tale about the daily life of a slave in America’s South before the Civil War? No, this one is different. This author draws you in until you can’t put the book down. As one of the discussion participants said, the author makes you care about the characters, care more than you want to. You’d rather not care so much or feel so much.

There’s Clora, the narrator. Her mother committed suicide after she killed her master. Clora sees that her daughter is getting older and soon, Always, will have to serve the master too. Clora tries to find a way out for Always and brews a soup made from poisonous plants. The entire family drinks the soup but only Clora dies. Now, Clora watches her children and grandchildren and tells us the story of their lives.

This slim book is on reading lists at some high schools in the US. It is easily read. It will stay with you for a long time.

Adult Book Discussion June 2008

Monday, June 9, 7:00 PM OR Tuesday, June. 10, 1:30 PM.

The June discussion book at Rust Library was Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Leesburg readers had a lively conversation--wondering whether it’s possible to runaway to the circus more than once in a lifetime and why the author opens the book with such a misleading description of events and if Marlena knows what really happened during the animal stampede. The book’s evocative setting in a depression era traveling circus reminded many readers of their own experiences when the circus came to town and the texture of life during this period of American history.

If you haven’t read Water for Elephants, you will enjoy it. This book received unanimous thumbs up from our discussion group.

Adult Book Discussion May 2008

Monday, May 12, 7:00 PM or Tuesday, May. 13, 1:30 PM at Rust Library.

March by Geraldine Brooks.

Recommended for adults. Sponsored by Rust Library Advisory Board.