With its frugality brought on by credit-card statements and frigidity brought on by winter winds, this time of year can be dreary.
Or we can look at it as an opportunity to escape, or to catch that fast train, also known as a good book.
Fortunately we have guides for such trips. They’re called librarians, and they have no trouble erecting signs to point us in mind-bending directions.
Theresa Osborne, librarian at the Forks Public Library, rattled off her list of best reads of 2007 almost without pausing for breath.
“My favorites are Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Vegetable Miracle, and to go with that, Plenty by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon.
“They’re the creators of the 100-mile diet,” Osborne began, referring to two books about the benefits of eating locally grown food.
She also touts Tom Brokaw’s nonfiction tome about the 1960s, Boom, and of course Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer’s vampire novel set in Forks.
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was the biggest junior read,” Osborne said.
