And it is my pleasure to welcome you to this first public program of the fall season. And we are trying an experiment today where you're doing what we're calling rapid reviews. And there are a couple of people in the audience who are actual librarians or retired librarians who may have been to rapid review sessions at the Vermont Library Association. And the idea is that our esteemed colleagues here will very quickly review each of them or review ten of their favorite books. Some old, mostly new. And did you all get a bibliography? No. No? But don't worry, Michelle will pass it up. Because I do whatever it is to do. So, as you study each of your bibliography and then you can make notes on it, there's something that you really like. Michelle, Virginia's one. So, before I introduce our speakers, I would just like to make sure that many of you are regular Oli attendees. Some of you I think might even be your first time. But we do have a program every Wednesday at 1.30 here at the Mark Healyer Senior Center. And if you do not have a program, those beautiful orange brochures right over there will tell you everything that you need to know. Well, not about life, but about all. Next week, without the fact, she's... Next week, I believe it's an Amy program. This is Amy Ehrlich. Next week, we're having representatives of search. Oh my God, that was a spider. That's George. You always get to think, do you man do like this? Well, why wouldn't you? So, next week we're having representatives of search, which stands for showing up for racial justice. And the topic is white people and racial justice, how the fight against racism is our issue too. So that should be a very interesting presentation and discussion. And we have all sorts of other programs after that. We have history, we have politics, we have the environment and art, et cetera, et cetera. So I'm hoping that you can come to a lot of them. As you probably know, it's $40 for the whole session or $5 for each one if you come in. If you don't come in, you don't have to pay a thing. Yeah, so we try to make it easier for people. So we have two booksellers and two librarians and some of you will say, but wait, but wait, what person is both? And yes, that would be George Spaulding, who works full-time at the library and quite a lot at the bookstore. We don't know how he does it all, but I noticed that almost every single person that came in said, hello George, because they know. Now, Steve Paggio, you've seen him at the library. He's ahead of circulation. He is quieter than George. Oh, what a surprise. But also, my great guy. And then we have our two booksellers, Cora Kelly and Claire Benedict. And I hope you are also patrons of Bear Pond, as well as the Kelly Cumberd Library. Now, the bibliography is, of course, an alphabetical order by an author, because guess what? I'm a librarian and there's no other possible way that I could have done this list. So it's going to be popping up. So for instance, George, you see the first entry as George's initials after GS. And so if you have any questions about any of the books that they're talking about, you can't remember afterwards who mentioned them. You would do have the initials to refer to. So they're going to be popping up doing the books in order that they appear on here. There is no relationship between one book and the next, other than the fact that each book is liked by somebody here. We have a PowerPoint that is the covers of the books that they're talking about, so if you don't want to stare at them, you may also stare at this. Are there any questions before we start? Everybody ready? Are you excited? Okay, guess who's first? I'm talking about the first book, which is Real Queer America. The author of the book is a reporter who was formerly a fairly conservative, straight reporter who discovered she was a woman. And she made it a point to travel the United States for a couple years after the recent much-nomented election to go to different areas that voted red in 2016. Places like Utah, Salt Lake City, Indiana, Bloomington, Fort Wayne, Texas, the Rio Grande Valley, to talk with people that were there, that were queer in various ways. She saw a ton of drag shows because drag apparently translates everywhere. She also talked with a bunch of people who were immigrants, who were living in the Rio Grande Valley and that chapter great and also heartbreaking. I would really recommend it. It's well-ridden. She doesn't lament too much, and the people she meets are fascinating. This book is The Mothers by Rick Bennett. The Mothers is set in modern-day California and it revolves around a church community complete with a meddling set of church elders, which are some of the mothers of the title. It's mostly about a teenage girl who's reeling from the recent suicide of her own mother. She's heartbroken and damaged, but she's also a very strong character. She takes up with the pastor's son in one fateful summer. The mistakes that she and the young boy make that summer, they kind of stay with them throughout their lives and reverberate for many years hence. There's lots of themes about motherless children and the mother-child relationship throughout the story. Bennett's characters are beautifully written, nuanced, and very real. One of the things I loved about this book is that it takes place around an African-American religious community that the focus is neither on religion nor race. It's just facts that just happen to be and you can tell these incredible stories without it being a racial story or a religious story. And I highly recommend it. So of all the books that I recommended, this was the one I was most excited about. I was counting down the days until it was actually released. The author has been a television writer for some time, and this is his first work of literature. So it's a collection of short stories and what I particularly like about it is the way that it... What I particularly find compelling about this book is the way that it can shift homes really quickly. It can go from dark to funny and back to dark again, from bizarre to funny and back to bizarre again. It's really kind of whip whirling you around emotionally. But what minds all the stories together is that they're all grounded in stories about relationships that are very relatable so that he has this great talent of writing a story in a world that doesn't really exist but you understand the relationships between these characters. It's a great book if you like short stories. They're incredibly well crafted. He combines both the character development and the plot development together so that the stories really move quickly and you come to the end of the story and you have this big revelation like, oh, now I get what this was all about and it's a lot of fun. So it is dark, it is odd, but it's also very funny and it's also very sort of exciting and new. So, yes, Roger. So, as the publisher knew, this book was published in 1942. Twenty seconds of history. Anthony Boucher is the greatest history critic of all time. He's also a writer. He also co-founded Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine back in the 1450s, something like that. This book is based on a collection of his friends that had a writing group in California. Oh, boy, this toilet was okay. In California in the 1930s and 40s, the characters in the book are based on people like Robert Heinlein, John W. Campbell, the greatest editor in science fiction ever, and also Oran Hubbard, who created Dianetics but wasn't always that crazy. He, so to speak. The book is a lot through mystery. The characters in the book have a great time. At one point, one of the characters who's based on my mind actually proposes a fourth dimension from which the killer could have phased and committed the murder and then phased back and does it with a straight face. The detective is actually a police detective named Terrence, I forget his last name, but the main detective is done by a nun named Sister Ursula who was delightful. Boucher had a series of books featuring hers, the detective, and they're all terrific. I'm particularly fond of this one because of the science fiction connotations. The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne. This is a wonderfully epic story set in Dublin that follows a young boy, Cyril Avery, who's an orphan, from womb to old age. I mean, he's not an orphan yet when he's in the womb, but soon. The rest of the time, he's an orphan. Starting in the late 1940s, it's a beautiful book, look at identity, both Cyrils and Ireland's, and a study on belonging and love in a world where those things can be so elusive to so many. This book has warmth and humor, as well as poignancy and tragedy, but the author walks this great line of hope and yearning very skillfully. Your heart is warmed throughout this book. I gobbled it up quickly, and everybody I've recommended to has loved it, and by the end of it, you're just like, Cyril, my heart! You just don't want it to end. I love other young adult books on this list, and this, I'm having to say, is one of them. Once in Future, it's by Amy Rose Caffetta and Cory McCarthy, who are a couple who live in town. They're both VCFA grads. It's a science fiction retelling of King Arthur set, obviously, in the future. The main character's named Auri Helix. She actually is a stowaway on a ship who meets, eventually, when the deer falls in love with her. And Merlin, who has been aging backwards due to a really unfortunate spell, appears in the book as a teenager, about 14, maybe maybe 15, something like that, desperate to find a king or a critical to actually break the curse before he reverts back any further in age. The book's super funny. Super, super funny. I love it to pieces. There's a love story between Auri and Muinevere. A story of sorts between Merlin and the Nightingale. And I read it entirely. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi. This book starts out ostensibly as a novel about a teenage drama at a performing arts high school. But it turns into a very dramatic story of how our past ripples through our lives in ways we don't even realize. I felt like I was reading this book. I was reading a master class in creative writing. It's got a very original and unexpected storytelling style that I can't really explain to you. You just have to experience it for yourself. It's not weird. It's not out there. It's just original. There are twists and turns in this book that will stop your cold because of the change in story but also for the creative manner in which they are presented. I was very engrossed in this at all times. Choi creates a precise sense of place and characters whose every raw is the emotion that is felt by the reader. I've always been a big fan of Susan Choi so this is by far my favorite of her novels. Okay. The Last Pirate of New York. This is a great book if you are interested in history and also it falls into true crime and biography as well. So it's about a man named Albert Hicks who was the last person to be convicted of piracy and it tells his story and the various horrible things that he did. But what's so exciting for me as a fan of history is that it gives this amazingly complete view of New York City on the cusp of the Civil War. The tenements and the docks where people were Shanghai and just the Irish immigrants coming and conflicting with the affluent people living uptown and all this stuff. It's a really complex view of what America was like and just the point where it was about to explode and it's really fun to read for that reason. I get to talk. Mine were all further in the alphabet. So this is Game of Kings by Dorothy Dennett which was written in the 60s and is one of my favorite swashbuckling adventure stories. It's 1547 in Scotland and the outlaw and rebel Francis Crawford of Lyman to secretly return to his homeland. In the first 30 pages of the book he swims across a river in the middle of the night housed by the pigsty. Floods Edinburgh as well as with Claret breaks into his own ancestral castle and steals the jewelry belonging to a large group of women visiting his mother and then sets fire to the castle on his way out all with great flair and many quotations of romantic poetry. Crawford may seem morally dubious but his ultimate motivation is his loyalty to his family and his country and he forms a mercenary army risking his life to protect Scotland and its very young queen from the English troops heading north. Crawford always reminds me of a cross between Robin Hood, Lord Peter Wimsy and the Scarlet Pimpernel. Dorothy Dennett's grasp of the history and literature of the 16th century along with her sense of humor make this a rich reading experience and there are five sequels. Next book. Wine Lovers' Daughter. Clifton Fadiman was born in Brooklyn to Ukrainian Jewish parents. As a boy he shared a bed with his two brothers and worked at his father's unsuccessful drug store. When he was four he learned to read and thereafter supplemented his school education with books he chose himself. Falling in love with words in the process. He graduated from high school at 15 and enrolled at Columbia thereafter and proceeded to distance himself as far as possible from his humble beginnings. At 28 he was editor-in-chief at Simon & Chuster. At 29 he was the book critic at the New Yorker magazine and he called Gertrude Stein a master in the art of making nothing happen very slowly. At 34 he was the emcee of an NBC radio quiz show with 15 million listeners. He had tenaciously become as cultured as he could and the wine that he drank, collected and wrote about was a big part of that. And Fadiman gives us an affectionate and moving picture for father that is clear eyed, not denying his flaws and insecurities but written with warmth and understanding and love. Hello. I'm super delighted to talk about this book. It is called Yes, I'm Hot In This. It's actually this big. And it is a collection of cartoons that started out online and it's now been published in book forms. It's by Ann Goulding who was born in the very foreign country of Michigan. And sort of the questions she gets from mostly well-meaning people who know nothing about her background but assume because her skin is of a different color and she wears the hijab that she's obviously from some far away place like Iran or Iraq or some Arab country somewhere nobody really knows. It's hysterically funny. It is super pointed and it's really worth reading at least twice, which I have. So I went home last night thinking there was going to be notes on the books but I ended up doing reading, writing, and all of them like Craig Ferguson instead. So Ferguson was on the late show for 10 years. I don't know if you say that that way but I did every night. He's brilliant. He's scoffed. He's very funny. He is incredibly profane, especially in print. It's delightful. And I have a message that I'm going to read to you, so don't worry Grace. And I'm not going to muck it. I found a knot. This is about the first time he ever flew on his own. I found a small, non-powered airstrip nearby and contacted a flight instructor in Minneapolis. After jetting to the big airport as a customer I crossed in the main tournament up to the general aviation buildings on the opposite side. This was before he yelled so there's nothing really to recommend Bob to me other than I like the sound of his voice on the phone. He was satisfyingly piloting he was big and the statue grumpy Wilfred Bradley Republican who smelled like a wet dog. I felt safe getting into the plane with him and indeed he knew the terrain like the back of his hand. Like most pilots he was a much nicer and happier person once we were airborne. The Underneath Melanie Flynn is a Vermont author who you've probably never heard of but extremely talented so I suggest you find out about her book The Underneath. This is a gripping story that takes place in the Northeast Kingdom when Kay a British investigative journalist who's traveled all over some dangerous places in Africa and all over the world she rides with her husband and two children to spend the summer in the bucolic Northeast Kingdom town and unplug and reconnect and do all that good stuff people have come to Vermont for. Shortly thereafter her husband leaves on assignment and she's left alone and she's wrangling around this old house and natural curious curiosity leads her to wonder where the owners of her rental cottage have disappeared to as there are various clues about the house that lead her to suspect that something went wrong. Soon Kay is immersed in this gritty and sometimes sinister world of poor rural Vermont. Interspersed with background from Kay's domestic work in Africa. This is a stunning examination of violence both personal and political and a thrilling look at the dark side of family, salvation, and the choices people make. Finn is a recent transplant to the Northeast Kingdom person. Okay, we go a lot. This is a very short and sweet book. It's colorful, it's bright, it's uplifting it's a familiar story in a lot of ways a story of love lost and love regained later in life as people who fell in love as teenagers get separated by forces beyond their control and then find themselves again as adults. But what makes it a little different from other telling of stories like this is that it's a graphic novel, so it's comic book style and it's also a lesbian couple, so it has a bit more of a modern take in that way. But it's a great, if you have don't read graphic novels this is kind of a fun way to get into it, like I said it's short and sweet the art isn't distracting in a way the characters are well developed and they seem very real, and it's just an uplifting and nice story. So, Good Night Stranger Makaya Bay Gold. Makaya is a DCSA 3CFA you may know where she works up there. This is her first novel, it is a fabulous, fabulous novel, this is probably the best writing book I've read this year, and I read it for a month. It's second kid cod the main character is a woman named Uzi, who is part of a set of triplets, one of whom has died at a very young age she also takes care of her brother a person reporting to be the lost triplet shows up on the island and he comes involved with the two of them because there are people on the island as well so it's about family it's about how much can we believe that someone actually exists are we willing to go there for it to believe they exist it's suspenseful, it's gloriously well written, and it's one of my favorite books of the year. Okay, The Law of the Hills A Judicial History of Vermont If that title doesn't stir excitement into it I'm very happy to report that it's much more interesting than it seems. So, I love to read about Vermont history and I love this book for two reasons first, it gives these great stories of all the lawyers and judges who have had an impact on Vermont's history and they're all surprisingly colorful characters and there's cantankerous ones who nobody liked and there's the ones who everybody fond over and thought this was my great mentor and all these great stories like that it's also a really interesting way to understand Vermont history the author is specifically looking at the judicial history but he's tying the whole history of the state through that and that's something I've never considered before, not knowing anything about judicial history, so it's a totally different way to understand the state and yeah, strong recommend He's Drives by Byla Goldberg Byla Goldberg has written a deliciously evocative story about Lily Creston who is a sally man like fictional New York City photographer in the 50s and 60s Lily was a single woman in New York trying to break into the art world and became a single mother both of these things were big stars against her the story is told through catalog notes written by her daughter for a posthumous moment exhibit of her work in the present day Amazingly, Goldberg manages to bring along the genius of Lily's photographs for the reader without ever showing us a single picture of her testimony to her creative writing The characters of Lily and her daughter Samantha feel almost like a gift from the author, they're too strong yet flawed female characters whose tight mother-daughter bond is tested throughout their lives This is absolutely one of my favorite books of the year, I've been trying to get everybody to read it I got my book group to read it, everybody loved it and the writing is just brilliant, it's just really what she's done is amazing I definitely recommend it Okay Gods with a little G I'll fully admit that I'm generally skeptical of books that have a teenager as a protagonist I usually find teenagers protagonists either annoying or not very believably written but this character, her name is Helen she is believably written and she is incredibly likable so we need for that The story is about this girl who lost her mother as a child and she's growing up with her deeply depressed father in a town that is fundamentally religious, so they've kicked out anybody who doesn't adhere with their beliefs and naturally she's a teenager so she's rebelling against this in her own kind of quiet ways and she's trying to figure out the usual thing that teenagers are trying to figure out love and relationships and she's also just trying to figure out the world as beyond her that she can't reach because she's in this very restrictive town It's fast paced It's funny, it's very sad at times but it's always uplifting Very good Woman at a thousand degrees by Halpernore Huggison Here's how this book begins I live here alone in a garage together with a laptop computer and an old hand grenade It's pretty cozy So begins this dark comedy narrated by Hera an 80 year old Icelandic woman who has lived a very fall, almost two fall life that spanned much of the 20th century Her story flashes back to tell us how she came separated from her parents on the European continent during World War II and spent most of the war wandering around by herself and about her post-war years as a socialite and the granddaughter of Iceland's first president and what finally brought her to this garage in suburban Reykjavik where she's so cozy Hera has a very unique perspective a sharp tongue worst of grace and and she has a very original story to tell and it was thoroughly entertaining funny and she's just got this acerbic wit She's the kind of character you'd love to have a drink with but you didn't really want her in your family or anything like like a blazing world by Ciri Busset this is again a book about a female artist this is just a coincidence that I only read books about a female artist but also in New York City she's a middle-aged woman more current day and it's very different than the last book I recommended it's about Harriet Bergen who is trying to make it as an artist in New York as well and she feels that she's consistently being ignored by the critics who favor younger, hipper, and usually male artists and she's kind of pissed about it and she's set up and she decides to try an experiment she hires three different men younger for the most part to present her work as their own and see what happens and what unfolds is not what she expected at all the story is told from many different perspectives her daughter, the men different people in her world and where the truth lies is always in question Harriet is strong an angry character but she's also needy and sympathetic and very memorable I found this thought-provoking and definitely it's a good book group recommendation because there's a lot to discuss and it's just a good needy book by Laurie R. King Harris Stuyvesant is an agent working for the United States Bureau of Investigation in 1926 so this is before the FBI he has come to London following clues to a series of mysterious bombings that have happened on US soil Harris is introduced to Captain Bennett Gray a veteran who came back from the Great War with shell shock and uncanny ability to sense people's hidden motivations Bennett takes Harris along to a weekend house party hosted by a wealthy family with eccentric ideas a party that seems to have so political undercurrents that may just tie into Harris's investigation adding two charismatic and intelligent women, a sadistic, manipulative government man who hopes to use Bennett's abilities for his own ends slowly mounting tension and lots of gin and you have a recipe for a grower I couldn't put down the other Americans by Leila Lalami Driss is a Moroccan immigrant living in California and on his way home from work one night he's killed by a hit and run driver the book is told from the perspective of his daughter Nora and after his death when the family is grieving and it examines the repercussions of his death that it has on his family as well as others in his community, a witness to the accident who is reluctant to come forward a detective investigating the case a neighbor and more all these characters come from different races, religions and economic classes and they all tell a very American story this is a that of the struggles of a Muslim American since 9-11 and a universal family dynamics it's very interesting insight into a slice of American life and these people represent the other Americans the ones that populate our whole country and they don't necessarily hear about all the time in their very heartfelt stories so I think if you know me at all you know I'm a fan of mysteries and I think the big test of mysteries is if you want to reread them and I'm happy to report that Kristen LeBianca's books I have now reread Once in Peace there are three books in the series the newest one is called The Stories You Tell and it's about a private eye in Columbus, Ohio named Roxanne Reere and it's a great private eye name and this one she's called Michael Broder because her brother is in trouble which is not the first time he's been in trouble he's a minor, he's popular a vaguely unemployed post college grad you know, restored and the woman who's come to visit him and has then vanished from there she starts investigating she actually goes into online identities a lot there's a lot of online stuff in here because that's certainly comical but the thing is that she's a terrific writer and a very good plotter the industry itself is very good and I was completely fanbosalistic who had actually done it I recommend the series really enthusiastically This is America by Joe LaCour if anybody tackled Joe LaCour's seventh or plus page history of America last year called These Trues this is the perfect follow-up so in this one she's focusing on political history and how the act of writing history is entailing the history of the nation plays into that and for anybody who appreciates Joe LaCour's writing in New Yorker this is an excellent venue for that she's a fantastic writer, she keeps things very short and precise and she this one is probably her most politically privileged book which is very exciting she's looking at the landscape of politics right now as we speak and she's saying why is there nationalism rising in this country and she's putting together a really fascinating argument that we're telling our history wrong and that people are being misled into nationalism because of that and it's a very exciting book in sort of the strength of her argument against it I think one of the best writers okay the Queen by Jemez Webin so this is a book about a woman named Linda Taylor who was done at the welfare queen by politicians in the press who discovered that she was cheating welfare and living rather maturely off of that and it tells her actual true story her full story and her full story is way wilder she was much more criminal than that she was involved in much more serious things than welfare scams but it also this book while telling her story also looks at sort of her legacy as a press figure as somebody who politicians pointed to as a reason for welfare reform and that sort of thing so it's equal parts true crime and American history Barbara Rebecca Mackay Rebecca Mackay is really well known right now for her big best solid The Great Believers this is her first novel which is kind of my favorite it's about a children's librarian so Grace approved named Lucy who has a favorite young patron who is a 10 year old boy named Ian and she kind of takes to Ian because she wants to save him from his overbearing mother who is very religious and won't let him choose his own books she likes to censor what he reads and she sends him to anti-gay classes and you know Lucy's just her heart's gone out to this boy and one day something happens and all of a sudden they decide to go on a road trip together but she hasn't told his parents this so it's kind of like kidnapping and a lot like kidnapping but you know with the best of intents and there's a lot of children's literature references woven into the storytelling which is just a light fall and it's a lot of fun and it's just a very engaging and funny and sweet story and worth checking out so we cheated twice on this we're supposed to do one book at a time under YouTube books we're not supposed to do best sellers both on the way in the service but Grace did notice so I agree these are both classic mysteries they're both century young adults but that does not mean they're not accessible to people who like to read the first book actually is a closed-circle suspect's mystery set in a detention hall in high school about a kid who gets poisoned it has to be one in five people who are in detention with him because there's a teacher there and the entire rest of the book follows from that the investigation, the suspects the town sort of torn apart is it the bad kid from the other side of the tracks that is in detention of course it probably is because it's always a bad kid the ending is completely unexpected the characters are what he will come back for because the characters are fabulous in the book Anthony Boucher published another book in 1942 could have written this if he had gone to high school in the early 2000s it's remarkably good the second book actually is set in Vermont it's called Two of Us can keep a secret thank you for it and it's about a set of twins who come back to stay with their grandma at a town that it's just outside the old amusement park where converters happened one twenty years ago one five years ago they become involved in the investigation for that again there's a lot of great characterization there's a lot of really good planning and I was completely fooled by the end and I'm very happy to say that hopefully we're getting her to come up to visit Bearpont sometime so this is one of George's favorites too told me I had to do it right red light and royal blue Alex Claremont Diaz is the 20 year old son of the first female president of the United States and he is a media darling handsome and ambitious with the aim of becoming the youngest person ever elected to congress he has had a long standing unspoken rivalry with England's younger Prince Henry and at the wedding of Henry's older brother the Prince of Wales they cause a scandal by ruining the wedding which cost seventy five thousand dollars during an altercation as a consequence and in order to avoid destabilizing the relationship between the two countries on the eve of his mother's free election campaign they are required to pretend they have been close personal friends for several years they are made to attend charity events together and do TV interviews where they have been lots of smiling through gritted teeth but as they get to know each other they discover that not only are they more compatible than they thought but that they might even be falling in love this is a very sweet and heartfelt fairytale romance with a healthy dose of real world problems okay, it was our romance by Robert Wittinger Eddie Campbell so, Robert Wittinger wrote a major bestseller with the time Trevor's wife a number of years ago and since then she's gone more and more into the graphic novels which is really interesting and Eddie Campbell happens to be her husband who is an illustrator so they work together on this book it's thirteen stories above love and at times they're very bizarre if you are if you're not familiar with any graphic novels and you're interested in sort of the comic style panel by panel this might be more interesting because the art style is all over the place the way that Eddie Campbell incorporates art into these stories is very creative and very different story to story and in addition to that there's just a lot of prose there's just actual paragraphs in this too so that's nice and this book is very surprising it's unlike anything I've ever read before and I don't really want to give too much away The Rook this is a wacky book Miffity Thomas wakes up in a London park surrounded by a ring of dead people wearing latex gloves she has no memory of who she is or how she got there in her pocket she finds a letter from herself informing her that she is in danger and needs to get to a safe place immediately she eventually discovers that she works in the upper echelons of an organization called the Cheeky Group kind of a secret service of the supernatural thanks to a binder full of information she had thoughtfully left to herself she slowly finds her footing in her job getting to know her co-workers including one whose mind occupies four nearly identical bodies feeling out the limits of her own supernatural abilities and gradually uncovering the vast conspiracy threatening to take down the entire organization from within this is one of the weirdest and funniest books I have ever read so Dementia Reimagined by Tia Powell is neither weird nor funny it kind of broke my heart eventually it's a survey of dementia which was around back in merman times I read this from the bookstore shortly after my goodness died both of whom had dementia um, yeah, you know it's a fascinating history I found on so much stuff I hadn't known before it's also a really moving personal story of her relationships with her grandmother and mother who both had dementia it's also and this is the uplifting part that will make your heart break in a different way the last couple of chapters she writes about what she will be like if she gets dementia and how best we can help her have it and carry on it's lovely, it talks about music it talks about companionship it talks about love in a lot of ways it's a really wonderful book the world as it is by Ben Rhodes this is one of my husband's favorite books as well as one of mine he helped me with this review I have read a lot of Obama related memoirs pretty much everyone I can count if I had to choose only one to tell you to read this is it at least until Obama writes his own Ben Rhodes served first as a speech writer then as deputy national security advisor and was in the road for so many pivotal moments and he not only understood the implications of everything that happened but he helped us to understand them as well in clear and measured prose that acts as a great antidote to today's rhetoric he gives us an intimate picture of Obama and all his fierce intelligence and responsibility words that can be used to describe Rhodes as well it is reassuring to know that there were and hopefully are people like that working for the best interests of the country and for democracy globally and reading this book gave me hope for the future okay, read People in Vermont the paradox of development in the 20th century by Paul Searles so Paul Searles is a history professor at London State and about 15 years ago he wrote a book called Two Vermont's which delved deeply into 19th century Vermont politics and this book is a follow-up to that and rather than look at what was happening at the State House he goes to Landgrove, Vermont and he looks specifically at two families from the 19th century who lived there and how their lives were impacted by the policies that were set at the state level and Landgrove being one of the very tiny towns in Vermont these were people who were impacted by efforts to revitalize the rural Vermont efforts to make the economy come back to life, efforts to keep people in rural Vermont since that has been a problem for a long time now it's a really fascinating story and it's because he uses these actual people and their stories to look at policy makes the policy a lot more interesting to understand and it also paints you know we're still having these conversations today and it paints them in a totally different light now that you know after I read it I realized how long these conversations have been going on for the driver's seat is a very short novel, a very quick pace so you can get through it probably in one sitting if you want to it's set in London in the 70s and it's the story of Lise a downward woman who's sick of her life and is heading to Italy on holiday you see from the start that this is kind of an odd character and you know something bad is going to happen they let you know that right up front but what does happen take some the story takes some unexpected dark turns that kind of keep you guessing right all the way through it's an older book but I think everybody should read Mary on Spark at least one time in their life and this is such a masterpiece in a small package that this is a great place to start George Dickey's book they call this anime which I don't remember it's also a dramatic memoir and I'm really tickled that we've done so many books on graphics with this thing that's great this is a memoir of his time in the internment camp in World War II with his mom and dad and his brother it also talks about his experiences growing up it talks about as well what it was like to be a kid living in a place where he didn't actually know that he was essentially the level which he was in 2017 on the 75th anniversary of FDR's signing the act that called for internment Dickey was invited to speak at the FDR library about his experiences and that's how the book concludes is just him talking about that and what it was like there are many people in the book that are wonderful that were completely involved in the community that had a reason to be hoping they felt what was happening was wrong and one of the obvious things that you can take from this is how well that this still is today Rat Barar by Josemite Josemite is not as well known as Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers but along with those two I think they're the top three writers of the golden age of detective fiction this book is one of her best when the Ashby children were young and their parents were both killed in an accident and shortly afterwards the oldest boy Patrick who was 13 disappeared leaving what might have been a suicide note or just an apology for running away it's unclear 8 years later a young man named Rat Barar an orphan recently returned to England from the states is stopped on the street by an old friend of the Ashby's and is drawn into a scheme to pretend to be Patrick surviving twin who is about to inherit the Ashby estate he has been well approached and the family seems to accept him after some initial shock the more Brad learns about the boy that he's impersonating the more he feels kinship with him and even some protectiveness towards him he also begins to suspect that all is not as it seems within the family and a sense of tension and eventually even menace gradually permeates the story do you find yourself reading the last 50 pages in a great rush like falling down a hill a semi-colon so this is a history of the semi-colon what I really loved about this book is that someone who has attempted over the years to read English grammar books and try to figure out how to become a good writer and that sort of thing I could never really, it always seemed arbitrary at some point who's making up these ideas and this book it follows the history of the semi-colon and in the process it goes through all these different grammar rules that people have made over the years and it shows just how arbitrary it really is so this is really well rated not surprisingly for someone who wanted to write a punctuation and it's fun and it's fast and it's totally fascinating co-neverity this is ostensibly a young notebook but there really is no reason to develop it other than anyone there are so many novels about World War II but this is my personal favorite it's about two young British women who are best friends one of them, Maddie, is a pilot who flies for the air transport auxiliary so she ferries planes from one air base to another or takes them to the pilots who are going to fly missions the other woman is Julie who is recruited by the Special Operations Executive to work as a spy in France because of her facility with French and German she's captured shortly after landing in France she looks the wrong way across the road which actually apparently really happened to somebody and the first half of the book is told from her perspective as she writes reports on her mission for the Germans who've captured her eventually you realize that she is stringing them along she's subtly changing and inventing information to mislead them the second half of the book is told by Maddie who in a moment of crisis ends up flying to France and crashing her plane and has to pose as the cousin of a local farm family as she gets drawn into helping to resistance while she searches for Julie I've read this book three or four times now and it still makes me cry like a baby every single time Connie Willis is my favorite author of fancy science fiction to say nothing of the dog is her funniest book Henry desperately needs a rest he's been shuttling back and forth between 2057 and the 1940s on a search mission assigned by Lady Shrepnel a wealthy and eccentric Oxford university patron trying to find something called the Bishop's Bird Stump which was lost in the Nazi air raid on Coventry Cathedral Ned has developed time lag from too many trips back and forth symptoms include modeling sentimentality difficulty in distinguishing sounds irritability and susceptibility to falling in love to hide from the relentless Lady Shrepnel and to recover from the time lag he is sent to the summer of 1889 in the Oxford countryside which is supposed to be restful but where he encounters a mystery related to the Bishop's Bird Stump along with eccentric Oxford dawns seances with a fraudulent medium named Madame Iratotsky a butler who is hiding something and a bulldog named Cyril is completely chaotic and absolutely hilarious and last but definitely not least this quote came out yesterday I've been grabbing people by the lapels telling them they have to read it um frankly is a Korean American high school senior in Southern California who struggles with his place in the world he feels like he isn't Korean enough for his parents or American enough for everyone else he and his best friend Q African American are smart and nerdy kids they're doing well in school and trying to get a perfect score on the SATs they like to play video games and they talk to each other like old fashioned British gentlemen say pip pip old chap my good man Frank's parents expect him to end up with a nice Korean girl but he has fallen for a girl named Brent who is white Frank makes a plan with his friend Joy Song who is also Korean American Joy is secretly dating a Chinese boy against her parents wishes and she and Frank decide to pretend to date each other so that they can get their parents off their backs of course things don't go quite as they planned and Frank starts to realize that there may be things he didn't know about his own life and his family and his parents his father in particular this book is so honest and engaging and moving and is the best that I've read so far this year I take questions but there were two this many things that I forgot to say before and the first one is that this the idea for this program actually came from Nancy Graff who was sitting over there yay Nancy and if we get good feedback we may do it every year and we'll see if you know something that you really enjoy and the other thing is that all of the books on the list are either available at the bookstore or in the library or both or George is our new interlibrary loan librarian at the library it's something that you can't get George will be happy to get it for you so I'm sorry to have cut off questions earlier on but if you may notes please ask any of the four or all go ahead ask I'll make it really delicious again what's more more reading or dishes the question I had for you before is rock to the board you said voucher what cover shows a different man the Anthony voucher book Anthony voucher was his pseudonym his name is actually William Anthony Parker Boyd or something like that but it's some tired old library where was it it would be under voucher as soon as we buy it what was the question that I cut off earlier on does it that was George that was relevant we have a question not a question but just a sincere thank you this is just the one thank you all very very much we can be willing we do one of the favorite books we've read in our life like with the kids and all that kind of stuff we can do like that show those books well not necessarily just books like the Ginsky's biography and Frank's diary was something that you read at some point in life usually older maybe younger I mean they made a big difference at some difference you know what I would love to do is get you would highlight a couple books of peace maybe that were really good books a couple of you said that as you were going along but I'm going to have my screen I take notes here first of all scissors something that is really good discussion yes can I answer your question first I don't know what are your parameters do they need to be on paperback yes okay out of the paperback something that got a lot to discuss about it a couple that I talked about that I would think would be good book club books or the Ben Rhodes book the world as it is and maybe the Ann Thadiman book about her father yes I'd say well I feel like any of mine but the Feast Your Eyes by Mila Goldberg Hearts and Visible Furies by John Boyne maybe Underneath by Melanie Thin particularly and all the others that I know the others talk about justice and they know whatever it was yeah and the Paul Searle's Repeatling Vermont it's simultaneously a fascinating picture of 19th century Vermont and it also because it tells these two family stories it's it's not just a little history in that sense when it comes out in paperback dementia reimagined by Tia Powell and that'll be a while it'll be a year from now probably and the by a big old model good night stranger I read that love this too still in the heart of it though okay okay other questions sorry yes if someone wants to address this whole idea about young adults becoming more popular with us old adults and the difference in terms of reading them or how do they feel differently I don't think I've ever read anything that was called young adult and I just wondered what the parameters are I think really the only difference is that they're written with young people in mind and told from a perspective of young people other than that there's no reason those of us who are older can't read them I think the main thing is the protagonist for young adult literature is usually a young adult okay a young adult and frankly a young adult literature okay notice the pretty high percentage of graphic and fantasy it's fine with me is it a hard or easy sound with your buyers easy yeah but we can't get Mr. Club to do it what was that to do with that oh we can't get Mr. Club to do graphic arts okay anything else that was fun thank you


Hi.  They don't want to go to college. So they're asking me what they should do with their lives in the meantime until they get married because our culture pushes young women everyone to go to college because that's the be all and end all. In fact, our culture idolizes college in my opinion. What I tell them to do is if their goal is to be a wife and mother, just always keep that as a goal in their life and wait upon the Lord because you don't know God's timing and you don't know His will for your life specifically, but God's will for the majority of women is to be married, to bear children, and to guide the home. So what they can do in the meantime is to make sure they know how to run a home because no matter where they live, whether they're living with their parents, in a dorm room, if they have their own apartment, they have to run a home so they need to learn how to keep a clean and tidy home. You need to learn the skills of that and just practice and don't live in a pigsty, but live in a home, an apartment, a home, help your parents or wherever you live. That's a beautiful home. It doesn't take long to keep your home clean and tidy. If you actually time yourself about how long it takes to clean your kitchen after a meal, you'll be surprised at how short of a time it takes to clean the kitchen, clean the bathroom, especially with my Norwex products that I use that I love. So it doesn't take a long time to have a clean and tidy home at all. And then you can see my Norwex hanging up over my oven over there. Usually I get that the way, but that's where I hang it to dry because I use it all the time. So it's just right there for me to use to wipe down my counters and my covers and my refrigerator. So anyway, I can see it. So anyway, after that, after learning how to keep a clean and tidy home, they need to learn how to fix nourishing food, research how to be healthy, how to eat healthy, natural cures for your children. I use Dr. Mendelssohn's book, How to Keep Your Children Healthy in spite of your doctor. He was a pediatrician for over 30 years. And whenever my kids had anything, I went to his book and he let me know if something was an emergency or not.  Fevers fight infection. You don't want to bring down viewers unless they're extremely high because the fever is fighting the disease that's in your body and it's, fevers are good. And so what you want to do is to study all that, study all the good recipes, how to make good foods to feed your future family or to feed people that come into your home wherever you live. Your home should always be a home of hospitality and ministry to anyone who enters it. So I'm happy people stay with you and learn how to take care of them and serve them and have a servant's heart because if you're going to have a family and a husband, the best thing you can do is to learn to get rid of the selfishness in your mind and have a servant attitude instead that just loves to care for people to meet their needs, make them as comfortable and as content as they can be. So invite people into your home, whether you're single or married, and we're all just supposed to have a hospitable attitude. And with a clean, if you keep your home clean and tidy consistently, you'll be much more apt to invite people into your home because you won't be embarrassed. I'm a messy home. I'm actually never embarrassed when people come to my home because my home is pretty much clean and tidy. So you know, have people in your home keep a clean and tidy home no matter what age you are, even before you're married, even in your dorm room, you're in a dorm, keep it clean and tidy. And about going to college, if a young woman wants to go to college to become a teacher and nurse or something like that, she needs to count the cost. She needs to know that she doesn't want to get a lot of debt that will keep her from I know young women who get an education, then they get married and have a baby.  Teach other children, leave their children with someone else so they teach so they can pay off their debt. To me, that's insanity. You want to be able to, whenever you meet the man that you're going to marry to be able to, you might get pregnant on your honeymoon, which would be a wonderful thing. My son and his wife got pregnant on their honeymoon and we just treasure that little girl and the others that have come right along. So, babies are a wonderful thing. Our society's made them not a good thing, but they're a blessing and a gift from the Lord and they're the gift that keeps on giving. So be prepared to be able to quit whatever you get into. Don't dig a hole. Don't get into a lot of debt. Don't get a career that you can't, you don't want to leave. If you can go to college without debt, that's awesome. Creation colleges are the way to go because you are learning about the Lord. They are very expensive. So, unless you have a career that you can really pay it back for like sons who are going to be doctors or anything that's, it's there, they have to go to college to get all that. But for women who really just want to be wives and mothers or spend their lives ministering to others, it's, it's, you know, and you can, a woman who can get a teaching credential without a lot of debt and loves to teach, you know, that's a great ministry for her until she has children or gets married. She might want to quit when she has children, even nursing. You can have a lot of skills for, you know, raising your own children. But if you want to be, be able to be home with your children full time, be able to quit my sister's a nurse and she quit full time while she was raising her babies to raise her children.  So you'll be loving your children as you think long term about what you want to do with your life in the short term, young women. And then you need to learn modesty, start dressing modesty from a young age, learn to be good by learning who you are in Christ, listening, listen, start learning and listening to great preachers like John MacArthur, Michael Pearl, John Piper, read servants by Charles Spurgeon. There's a lot of good preachers out there. Just make sure they're solid Bible. Read the Bible every day. Don't worry about finding the new and greatest Bible study. Just get your Bible open, put it on your lap every morning and read. And that's how you become good. So anyway, this is my advice to young women who don't really want to go to college, but they do want to be wives and mothers and they just wait patiently on the Lord. Make sure when you find that man, if you have godly parents, that they like that man that they can see that he's loves the Lord and is a hard worker. Those are the two things I gave my daughters make sure hard worker love the Lord. And so and make sure friends, the godly friends approve of him. Because it's being married is a lifetime commitment. So make a really good choice. Just work on yourself becoming a godly woman at a young age and and you'll be prepared to be a godly woman and a godly wife and mother when the time comes. So this is my advice to you young women and just wait upon the Lord because he's so good and there are godly men out there. I know there's some women who are raising amazing godly men. So get involved in a good Bible believing church where you're going to be able to meet some godly men and make sure that they're involved in church and and active in it and really love the Lord deeply. So anyway, that's my advice. Talk to you later. Bye bye.


No, sorry guys. There was just a ladybug in my shirt. I Thought it what I feel really bad. I killed it. I thought it was a spider I've held it crawling up and I just immediately killed it. There was a ladybug in my shirt for some reason that was weird Okay, any who bad luck for 40 years some things have changed since the last time I Played Ammo crossing I did get my turnips today. I paid off my final house loan Which is very exciting, but I have this house.  I know it does. It's very very bad But I've got my little yard back here. I just put these flowers here for now because I was emptying my inventory I kind of like them here though. They're kind of cute, but I have my little pond up here I got some bamboo growing around here Very nice, and we got these steps down here That go to all of the turnips that I bought this morning We got a little pond over here little telescope Look out on the stars in the world. I Put my museum over here, which is kind of fun Who are you? Who are you Boris? You've got the look of a local. I'm named Boris. I'm new here. You wouldn't happen to know where I could find some Some canasta player canasta canasta players. Would you know didn't think so Hmm. Well find me if you ever feel like shooting the breeze. I'll be around is that Boris I didn't think I invited Boris to come and live on my island There's a new camper here the other day, but it wasn't Boris all right again before I show you what I'm about to show you I'd like to say that I don't have any of the construction Terraforming tools or anything like that. I can't even make a good path. It just looks like over. Oh, you can't really see it Move me down It just looks like the side of the hill is on fire going to funny. All right anyway Hopefully I'll unlock that soon. It looks kind of cute, but we got somebody's house who's this is Boris's house This is This house is this this house is this Henry's house. That's Henry's house. This is Puddles house, I think puddles Violet's house Who's violet again, and then axel's house right here Who's violet? I Don't even remember who lives here. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Who is oh, this is violet Violet's a new villager that just came the other day, but also there's another villager I didn't think Boris was coming to live here I thought I invited another person to live here and the other person was really cute. It was like a cute little pink elephant She was adorable. I didn't invite Boris. This is violet. Hi violet You're such a sweetie and looking fabulous as ever. I see all right. See you around.  You've never seen something like this before guys Look at this place. Let me show you what this is all about Curious what's in the cabinet here's what we have today Do you have a slingshot? Oh outdoorsy slingshot? That's fun Is it better? Oh, you can buy axes and stuff now. That's nice. Look at that cool net That's cool a star. I'm jealous. Everybody is getting the upgraded shop And I don't know how to trigger it you have to have been playing the game for 30 days I think it's 30 days see they're 15 or 30. I think it's 30 So yeah, it'll it'll upgrade on its own. You don't have to do anything except for play I don't have any villagers that I don't really like But now I don't really like Boris. He looks so upset Well, why are you so upset dude? I also changed my flag and sick. Well, you're living in the hot dog king's kingdom How could you be upset?  I'm just giving the old bones a rest. All right, Boris. Geez Boris is an uggo I'm gonna put down another piece of land. I don't owe Tom any more money guys any more money I am completely debt-free from Tom nook. I'm out From underneath his clutches what I want to do is I want to have a cool like a little neighborhood kind of thing Because once I get the terraforming thing I want to like reorganize my island a bit Because I'm not sure I super like the layout of it. It just feels kind of cramped. So I'm definitely gonna like Level some stuff out.  I think it would be cool I really like my little place being up here on the hill I might move it So then it's just straight And I might move the museum again. I don't know where should we put This new house. Oh, yeah, so here's the other little houses over here. They're not in In the best area I might level this out a little bit more, too I just don't have the terraforming tool yet So we got to figure out where we want to put this extra house Then maybe that fun pink elephant will come because she was cute. Let's see Where do we want to put it? I'll just put their house out here. That's actually kind of cool. Can I? Hold on. Can I put their house on the beach like on the beach on the beach? Can I put it here? They can be the keeper of the lighthouse Too close to the water. What if I do it here? Hmm, you can put it on the beach. Okay, maybe I'll put it Maybe I'll put it right here. You know what sure sure flatten that area. I can't I can't I don't have any terraforming tools yet Why did I say that so weird here is the question guys? I want some cool. How do I how do I unlock the terraforming thing? I need to get a higher rating. I think so I'm gonna go here and I'm gonna buy me Shovel is raiding with a party of 240 Shelby's community. Thanks for coming by just letting you know Just letting you know I'm not as Family-friendly as Shelby is so I might say a word every now and then Just letting you know get ten villagers on your island and have a three-star rating. How many villagers do I have? two Four six seven eight trying to figure out how I want it to go. Let's let's see what he's about has to say I don't like you Boris. I don't like you. I want him off my island immediately Isabel What's the haps? Tell me how can I help you today? I would like to Discuss a road just immediately Discuss Boris curious about the current image of Cornhole, huh to start rating Positive buzz floating around about our island folks are starting to take notice. I mean to read an excerpt an excerpt from the feedback I gathered I've been shipped right there a few times. Oh Gulliver Gulliver I some hustle I'd some bustle make your island a port of call that'll turn it I will like what though. I don't have anything cool. I don't have anything cool I don't have anything flowers. Okay, too many items lying around I just picked up a ton of items so who's complaining about more items No, you can't discuss anything else. It's all your turn. Oh, it's the turnips. Okay I want to have I want to and I know that a bunch of people have done this already, but I want to also do it It's fine. I want to have a mussel beach. All right. I'm so happy that with the upgraded shop I can buy tools now because it was honestly so annoying just having to go and craft them It's very nice. This is what privilege looks like guys. This is what privilege looks like All right, now it's time to figure out Well, I want to do what I do want to do really quick I want to I want to find some cool paths I like on the online ID thing or make my own I could I could try and make my own actually Let's try it. Let's try it really quick. Let's try to make our own path Let's redeem some nook miles. Um, I have a lot of nook miles right now. I should redeem more of those. Okay So this might look cool It might not we will find out will this look cool. I'm making a little path even. Thank you for everything Thanks for letting me know that I'm not alone Oh and screw Boris hard screw Boris hard All right gamers. This is the real moment of truth this this part's rough. Oh god. Oh, no eek eek Okay, I'm just gonna try this. I'm just gonna try this and see what it looks like on the ground Maybe it looks kind of cute No No, sorry. No, it doesn't it's okay. It's alright. It's alright. It's fine. It's fine. Everything's great Everything's so great. I love art. It's my passion. It's cool something. I may do I'm gonna go to Tom real quick. I'm gonna ask him to upgrade that bridge I wish that you could instead of having demolished to demolish and rebuild the bridge I wish that you could just upgrade a bridge unless maybe you can Demolish something certainly understand Of course removing a bridge or incline does come on I'm still interested. Yep. You bet I am What are we going to demolish? We're going to do the wooden one. Oh and the log one too. Yep. You already told me about it All right.  Oh Damn it. I clicked on the wrong thing. Hold on Okay Sure about this Demolish demolish. I also wish that at a certain point you could do multiple construction things Per day, you know because I gave him millions of bells Why can't he hire more people to to work on the construction team? You know, let's do The nook miles Miles What I like to yes, I would pay now, let's go to a secret little island Oh, I wish I didn't have to talk to people so much. I know the the program. All right, I got the memo Got him. Got him. Got him. Got him What would Dodo's do guys?  How you doing friend? Do not scare him.  You look cool rodeo Cool, so your eepers from Cornhole Damn, dude, what if you moved to my place so much nature every place you look is nature It's real neat to stay here forever pointing at stuff saying that's nature. Well, hey, I got a lot of trees Full time. I mean just live in life pointing at nature. Well want to come to mine? We've got we've got We've got some nature we got trees You look cool. I like how your eyes are red sometimes. What is up with your red eyes? I don't know. I like you though.  I haven't gotten a new villager island in a long time So that's pretty lucky actually that that first go we got that well TBH, I don't really feel like making I mean, I I think that rodeo would kind of mess it up anyway if I did uh I Tried to do a tarantula island. Let's just see what's in here Oh a crawfish I haven't gotten one of those before that's fun, and there's two there's two guys Jeez, there's a big fish over there. Oh, is it a goldfish? Oh A goldfish. I love goldfish. I've never got a goldfish before. Hey, dude Hey, dude, what if you looked at this right here the one that's in that right here What if you turn this way and look at this over here Bernie Sanders just donated one dollar. I need your financial support Bernie What's you doing in my chat dude? What's up? Alright? I'm pretty much done on this island. I think I'll try for one more fish Just see what we get. You know might be fun Might be fun. Oh Oh, it's a boot. Well, it wasn't a fish. Bernie got some cake. I bet he do though shake the trees furniture's in them. Well, I Already left so there's no way I could do it.   That's kind of nice. I'm gonna put this I like that. Just gonna put a bunch of tarantulas in there. That's super cute. Oh, I love him I'm going to keep him here. I'm going to put him in my room actually because I love him. Oh My gosh, what will his name be? He's gonna live over here. Look at him. Oh My god Called Bernie. Oh, it's Bernie. Where will they lift weights? I think maybe over here. Oh, yeah Yeah Yeah, we'll reorganize all this stuff. Don't worry me on diner sign.  Yeah, dude Take this and we'll move it and then yeah You can punch it where'd you want to go I want to use my nook miles ticket, please Okay, let's just take you all pecked you already. I mean it's time for takeoff dude It's kind of hot dude. Yeah, no, he got that cake for sure. Okay, so it's this island So no villagers here. All right I'm gonna do a thing because I've got hella nook miles and a bunch of people gifted me the nook mile tickets So I'm gonna do a thing.   Thank you so much for gifting Scary moments guys scary moments. I have an itch on my face. I have an itch on my face Now he's gonna give me this whole lecture I don't want to hear it Wilbur I don't want to hear it. I know all about the things and stuff. Okay, even I just want to say what a great community This is you have made such a loving and accepting Sorry, I'm sorry that I'm Distressed I just want to get these tarantulas and I just got got dude two F's in a row that sounds like Can't have that dude.   Thank you so much Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm the ruler of the world big boy on the tree.  Does anybody know how much the Alice month month sell for? But how much they sell for When you sell them to flick because I'm gonna save all these tarantulas and all these mods for flick Dude, you really do be hanging out though And back 4500 from flake cool. Can we get some tarantulas?  Thanks for being here. Thanks for just ah Damn it. Thanks for chilling.  Also guys. We just hit 2,500 subs.  That is so insane And thank you all so much. I keep having to change the sub goal. So now it's 3k Which is insanity. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it tarantula. Don't worry about it tarantula Don't worry. Everything's fine. Everything's fine. Don't worry about me. I'm just coming close to you with a net What would I do with this net you ask? I don't even know what I would do with it. There we go I got you other Kayla. Thank you so much for another 10. What do you do in news? That's a hundred gifted all of you are going to give me a heart attack someday.  The alerts are incredibly far behind, but thank you so much I'm glad that you feel welcome in this good mood and tea Dude Pog for the or fish dude if it's gonna take this damn long Do I even want to do this?   Well, I don't want to well, maybe maybe that's the sign to go home, right guys Maybe that's the sign to go home is my net bro You know and I can still get all my other stuff. I've got cash at this point You know guys, I've got bells of plenty. You want to see the different outfits that I've made? Here, I'll show you I show you I show you hot dog king's the main the main one Especially with like youtube stuff. I like having hot dog king. It's cute. I got space skeleton I've got wood stock I've got fancy Whoo, I've got roam And I've got I want to be a cowboy, baby That's pretty cute


Good afternoon and welcome to the church of the week video with me David Madden Today's date is Thursday the 12th of November 2020 on the time of just gone 1239 GMT and this week's church of the week is Bitcoin Bitcoin has been on a solid upward trend the last few weeks and months as you can see here a nice series of higher highs and higher lows in fact today it traded briefly North of 16,000 a level last seen in January 2018 I keep mine the all-time high was set in December 2017 So it's been in a strong strong upward trend if we continue to press on higher from here We could be looking at heading up towards the gonna stick the 16,600 region this area here Because we've had so few prices up in this area It's it isn't exactly very easy to pick out many potential areas of resistance, but keep an eye on this general zone here in around 15,000 sorry 16,000 580 16,600 this general area here keep an eye on as a potential target to the upside if you go beyond that Recruiting you're heading up towards 17,000 that's like the next big number And then if you go beyond that again, we could be looking towards 18,000 and keep in mind the all-time high was set In in December to 2017, you know well up towards 20,000 do similarly around kind of 19,600 19,700 so the market's been in a strong upward trend recently So I keep an eye on those air price levels or potential upside targets But it's worth noting that if you take a look at the MACD histogram the MACD indicator positive momentum has ever so slightly Been tapering they've been fading off all the while they actually underlying asset itself Bitcoin has actually been moving higher in price now price is the most important indicator But the fact that we're seeing better divergence that price continues to move higher all the while it ever saw slightly decline In the MacD indicator of MacD histogram it could suggest that the bulls are running out of steam It could be a sign That you know we could see it We could be an infer about a pullback in the near term should that be the case We could drift lower back down for this area here down on 14,822 and a move below that and all that could take us out for this zone here in around 14,000 now if you're going to be trading Bitcoin It is worth you while seeing what's going on with other cryptocurrencies to see if there are also an upward trend And if you take a look at Ethereum here, we can see that Ethereum is It's been a nice upward trend the last few last few weeks We're not too far away from the highs that were set in September and keep in mind the highs that were set in September We're actually the highest level seen since since kind of since I believe I think it's Summary in around the summer of 2018 so we're not you know No multi-year highs were set not that one I'll go and we're not that far away from potentially found retesting those very multi-year highs now how I'm talking about Ethereum on a Bitcoin chart well one of the tenants of Dow theory is that the averages must confirm each other and if you're thinking if your view is that Bitcoin is going a certain direction and Similar market Ethereum is also going in a similar direction. You can then be more confident in your view of a Bitcoin Here it seems the markets we offer a wide range of cryptocurrencies Not just Bitcoin and Ethereum if you go to products and you're going to crypto You can see here a wide range of cryptocurrencies after those of you who aren't interested in training individual cryptocurrencies You can also trade cryptocurrency Indices as you can see here. We have the all crypto index and just down here We have the emerging crypto index so something to take note of that's all in this video. Have a good training week. Good luck


Russia gives bonus payments to soldiers who destroy U.S. and German-made tanks in Ukraine. Russian troops, who have destroyed German-made Leopard tanks and U.S. supplied armored vehicles being used by Ukraine, will receive bonus payments, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The ministry said this was part of a wider reward scheme under which more than 10,000 Russian servicemen had received individual bonuses since the start of the war nearly 16 months ago, according to Jerusalem Post. On the basis of reports from Russian Field Commanders, payments are currently being made to servicemen of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, who in the course of military operations destroyed Leopard tanks as well as armored fighting vehicles made in the USA and other NATO countries. The Ministry said Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu awarded the Hero of Russia Gold Star Medal to soldiers who Moscow said had destroyed Leopard tanks and U.S.-made Bradley fighting vehicles being used by Ukraine, which has launched a long-anticipated counteroffensive. The Ministry said that up to May 31, total of 10,257 servicemen had been rewarded for destroying 16,001 items of Ukrainian and Western military equipment. An enemy armored vehicle was worth 50,000 rubles or 596 U.S. dollars, and a tank 100,000 rubles or 1,192 dollars, it said. Military pilots and air defense operators received 300,000 rubles or 3,576 U.S. dollars for every destroyed Ukrainian plane or helicopter. Hits on Tochka, you and U.S. supplied Himmars rocket launch systems were rewarded by the same amount.


Hi, my name is Pete Kiyomani-Von, I'm the Community Development Manager with the Community Development and Economic Office with the City of Burlington. I am here with three individuals who are going through our My Brother's Keeper Internship Program in partnership with Channel 17 Town Meeting. And we're here to talk about their experience in the videotography internship program. So we have three students here that have been filming NPA meetings. They've been filming community meetings and also interviewing people in the community. And we have our first person here. You want to introduce yourself? Hi, my name is Boniface. I go to Burlington High School. I'm a senior this year. And I'm Germain. I also go to Burlington High School and I'm also going to be a senior this year. And I'm Olivier. And I also go to Burlington High School, I'm a senior. So can you tell me, all of you, what interested you in this internship, particularly with filming? And also how long have you been in this program? What interested me to join this program was how to, I wanted to learn and gain skill knowledge with working with comrades. And how I go into this program was through ES Program, which was about how to develop in jobs and careers and stuff like that. And I enjoy this program because I think I've had an interest in filming for pretty much my entire life. So when I heard that about this program, I immediately wanted to do it. And I've been in it for almost three years now. Yeah, what made me interest during this program was also, yeah, I was interested in filming too. And when I saw my friend joining that, and they're like, yeah, I want to do that. And this is like my second year, I think, yeah. Oh, great. So how about some of your experiences that you've had when filming? For example, you interviewed some community leaders and you went and talked to some youth. So can you share a little bit about those experiences, what you've learned from them? Well, at first, my first filming interview was pretty difficult. I had technical issues. And as long as the way I kept learning and, yeah. Yeah, mostly I happened to be interviewing people. So I think I've learned a lot from that. I'm now mostly on the camera. So I wouldn't say no much yet. But yeah, I learned some skills about how to interview people and how to make people want to talk to you. Yeah, like what Bonnie said, the first, it was kind of hard. I wouldn't keep doing it over and over again. It kind of get used to it, yeah. Great. So I would say that definitely, you know, like learning those skills of like setting up, how to answer and write questions out. What was the process like? How did you prepare for that? Did you get together, come up with the questions before each show? Can one of you talk about that? Well, before the interview, we had to write questions down. And we needed to know what the person we're interviewing, what does he work in, what is his career so that we know what questions to ask, what are the appropriate questions to ask. Yeah. Yeah, that's it pretty much. Was there a favorite show that you did, a favorite like community leader that you interviewed or something that stood out? Yeah. We once interviewed a police chief, I believe he was, and I am kind of interested in that sort of job. So talking to him was really nice to get his knowledge and stuff. Excellent. So yeah, just tell me more a little bit about yourself. So what are some of your favorite things to do besides, you know, videotography? What are your sports that you do or outings? Well for me, I like running. So I do cross country and through the winter, I do skiing cross country again. And I like playing volleyball. I mostly play video games or yeah, that's pretty much it. If I'm not playing video games, I'm just hanging out with friends, stuff like that.  And what's your plans for after high school? It doesn't have to be a particular college or a place, but what do you see yourself doing in the next couple of years? Well, because I'm graduating next year. I haven't thought really through like that, but what I want to do after I finish high school is go to college by somewhere near but not in Ballington. Probably end up in the police academy a year from now. Yeah, after high school, yeah, I think I'll try to go to college maybe somewhere near by, maybe you here. Yeah. So did any of this, the internship, did it affect your decision where you are now? Then like when you first started, has it helped like formulate any new ideas of what you can do? Well, at first, we only knew like a camera, it's just a camera set that you can just move back and forth. But now we know that there is a lot of inputs and wires that needs to be connected in order for the camera to work. So I would say we gained most, a lot of knowledge. Yeah, yeah, for sure, I agree with him. Before we got into this, we didn't know much about interviewing and the camera work and even editing, but now afterwards we know a little bit of each part of that and it could be something that we can do to get better potential to be a career, but I'm not sure. Yeah, I like what you mean I said, yeah, we learn more, maybe we might be a career thing, I don't know. Yeah, there's a lot of transferable skills, even if you don't go into the videography or TV, you learn skills around management, skills about public speaking and also organizing meetings. So, yeah, Livia, you did one show where you went out in the community and interviewed people on the importance of voting, like why they vote. Did you learn anything particular on that, like about the voting process or why people vote? Yeah, I think it was kind of interesting, like just to see how people, how they're sharing what they, they type of voting, yeah, kind of good. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. How about the two that you did on interviewing the youth and public safety? Was there things that you learned about your own peers on what they thought about safety and school? Yes, so we got, like to say, back in the beginning of the pandemic when all the stuff was going on, we were talking to these people about police safety in high schools and we got to see everybody's perspective of that and we agree with some, we disagree with some, it was nice to see that. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, that reminds me too of doing everything remote. How was that, like with trying to get together remote and get the speakers together and what was the difficulty or some of the challenges with that? It was difficult because, you know, you had to do it on your own computer, on your own device, which is pretty intense. You think you're going to join the meeting earlier, but afterwards you join it, like five minutes late because your phone isn't working, all your internet isn't working because a lot of people are working on it. Yeah, it was difficult for most part just because of, you know, everything's, it's not in person, it was on the internet, so like you might ask somebody a question and like the way the answer, you can't really hear them or they might be having technical issues, so you have to stop the meeting and like have them rejoin. Yeah, it's kind of, yeah, it's very difficult, especially like me, I have a big family at home, but to find a quiet place is kind of hard, yeah. Yeah, yeah, speaking of family, how was it balancing out in internship school? I know something you did after school, like sports, and then taking an internship too, it's, that's a lot to juggle. Can you share about how you managed it? Well, time management, I, before this program, I wasn't working on time management that well, but when I started this program, I wanted how I, I found out a way to balance my time, so I can do all things that I like or wanted to do at the same time, which worked out greatly because communication was good with my peers. Yeah, I grew up born and said, yeah, the communication is perfect. Yeah, I don't know, I don't do much, like besides school, like I'm not into sports or anything like that, so it was a little bit easier for me because I'm mostly free after school. Yeah, yeah, definitely, I think that even if you're not doing a lot, it's still taking on additional responsibility and learning about meeting, meeting people beyond the school and, you know, like beyond like your, your team here, but other community members and folks that you're, you're working with to not only interview but also editing. I imagine you have to meet with the, the Channel 17 crew to learn how to edit. So can you talk a little bit about that? How like, did you ever have experience with technical editing or like, what did you learn about that? So editing has been another one of my interests for pretty much my lifetime and when I, before I got into this program, I actually had an editing class at BTC, which helped me a lot. So when I got into this, it was easier to edit the videos that we make and because I had a class before it. So I was pretty used to that. I wouldn't say I had that much experience with editing. I was still adjusting to new technologies and stuff. So yeah, it worked out greatly. Like when he said, yeah, I actually thought it was, I didn't have that much experience. Actually, the editing was easier, but it was actually hard. But when I get to start working here, editing, I got to know more stuff. Yeah. And tell me a little bit about Burlington. Did you learn more about the city that you lived in? Is there anything that is, that you didn't know before this? Because you, you filmed a lot of community meetings too. And I know you probably heard a lot of projects and just information there. So yeah, yeah, most of the time we get stuck to like, most of like, group leaders that groups that are in the city and like the people that are in the city pretty much. And yeah, we just got to hear from them. I'll say a few new things that we didn't know before, which is good. And a couple of things that we already knew. Right. Yeah. Yeah. How people can engage. There's different ways that you can go and get your voice heard. For sure. Yeah. Sure. So yeah, I would say in just in thinking about the benefits of internship in general, or this one particular in getting the word out about like videography internship, what advice would you give to someone or your, your younger students that are, are like, interested in internships? Like, what would you say about it? And how would you be a mentor? I would say this is a nice, it's a good opportunity because after you finish high school, it will be hard to get. So it's better to start earlier to just search for a career. Yeah. I would advise anybody that is interested in editing or filming or who has come to with talking to random people on the streets to join because you get to learn all of that from this program. Yeah. If you're interested in like video editing and stuff like that. And also, like if you're in high school, don't have anything to do. If you try to do different programs for your career, yeah, can help you with your college stuff. Yeah. Great. So school's going to get back soon. What are you all going to do with the last week or so? Oh boy.  Nothing really. I haven't really thought about it. I didn't realize how soon he was going to start till now he's kicking in. Yeah. Yeah. Summer is really quick and it sneaks up for you the fall before you know it. So that's all the questions I have unless you all have any last words you want to say to the people. Words of inspiration or like last thoughts of from a young person like what people could do to help young people achieve their goals in career and in college pathways.  So any last thoughts of how we can support young people? I don't really know but I'm just going to say to anybody that like doesn't have that many knowledge on like how people you know like like in the government way like this would be a good program to learn about that because you get stuck with most of them. Yeah. Right. Yeah. There's definitely a lot of civic engagement components and community development leaders that you've met that are making like big decisions and it's great that you all got to get connected to that. So yeah thank you so much for watching with us and thank you for Channel 17 for supporting these young men too in achieving their experience and goals. So with that we're signing out. Thank you.


My name is Caitlin Jericks. I'm the outreach coordinator here at the 4-H Center. For today's activity, we're gonna be talking to you a little bit about food chains and meeting some of our animal ambassadors that call the 4-H Center home. So a food chain is how energy flows in our environment. So basically it follows who is eating whom out in nature. Now there's gonna be different levels of food chains and these are actually called trophic levels. And they're all gonna begin with the sun, all living things on our planet need energy to live and to survive. And that actually starts with the sun. All right, so in our true first trophic level, we have our producers. So plants are an amazing example of a producer. So plants actually use the process of photosynthesis to convert the sun's energy into food for themselves. Just like all of the trees are doing around me right now. After our producers comes our primary consumers and our food chain and in our trophic level. So primary consumers, they're gonna actually eat those producers.   So next in our food chain are going to be our secondary consumers. So these are gonna be animals that are actually either eating your primary consumers or those producing plants. So a secondary consumer can either be a carnivore. So just a meat eating animal or it can be an omnivore, an animal that eats both plants and meat. So our first example of a secondary consumer is going to be a mouse. So likes like to eat both plants and really anything that they can find in the wild. So anything from seeds, berries to even animals like your grasshoppers. All right, so mice are on the menu for lots of other animals, especially your snakes. So snakes are an example of the carnivorous secondary consumer. Now this is Serengeti. Serengeti has been a teacher here at the Forage Center for over 20 years. Serengeti is a corn snake. So corn snakes, they get their name because they've had quite the history of being found in farmers grain bins and in barns. Now they're not there though looking to eat the grain and the other vegetation. Instead, they want to prey upon all those rodents. So the mice and the rats that are going to be found there. So snakes actually do. Us and farmers are really important service as pest control have been reduced those and keep those in line of those rodent populations. Let's keep moving up in our food chain. At the top of our food chain we have our tertiary consumers. So these are going to be top predators that actually will eat both the primary and the secondary consumers just like a great horned owl would. Now this is Catalina. Catalina is an avian ambassador here at the Forage Center and she's actually what we call a human imprint. So she actually was taken out of the wild when she was really young illegally and she spent too much hot time under human care before she was finally released to a wildlife rehabilitator. And later on came to us because it's really unsafe to release imprinted animals back into the wild. Now great horned owls are going to be apex predators in their ecosystem. So they're going to eat anything and everything that they can get those sharp talons on including both mice and snakes. Did you notice how our food chain and our trophic levels actually made a pyramid? So this is actually because there's lots of energy at the bottom. And as organisms are eating other organisms there's less of those top level predators because there's only so much food and energy available for a few of those top level in the tertiary consumers. But there's lots of food available for those lower levels on the chain like your herbivores like our grasshopper. Food chains are a really simple way in learning how energy flows through our environment. But as most of us know that it's not always this simple like we saw with our food chain today and lots of organisms are out there eating different food items and different predators are eating them. But really nature is all connected and each level and animals actually really important on our food chain to keep nature in balanced. Now we've gotten over our food chain but we haven't really talked about what happens when something passes away. It doesn't just stay here forever.  Think about earthworms and vultures. These animals are called detravores. So they're actually gonna consume organic material and help start that breakdown process. And even further to help decompose like you learned about yesterday and Vess's composting video you're gonna have those organisms inside of the earth and in your compost bins. Sometimes like bacteria and fungi that are gonna even further break down those nutrients and put them back into the earth for our plant producers to help start that food chain all over.  We wanna know in Friday's Zoom celebration what consumers and what producers you can find in your own backyards or neighborhoods. We're super excited to see you then.