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Naomi Kritzer’s Chaos on Catnet is a direct sequel to her Lodestar Award winner Catfishing on Catnet, and it does exactly what a sequel should do: expand the stakes, introduce a few important new characters, reveal some secrets and puzzles left over from the first novel, and deepen the tone a bit. The trick is to manage all this without retreading familiar plot points or losing the authentically breezy YA tone of the first novel. Catfishing on Catnet managed to keep that almost sunny tone intact while developing some pretty dark plotlines: the teenage Steph and her computer-genius mom mo...

If you were lucky, you grew up with books.  If you were really lucky, you grew up with a mom who read to you. Listen. Hear her voice now.  The soothing voice while you were home sick, or scared of monsters under your bed at night, or worried about school the next day, or thunder that boomed outside, when you were crying over a scraped knee, dropped ice cream, broken toys, goldfish belly-up. If you were lucky, your mom was there with a kiss on the band-aid, a calming distraction, a soothing story that swept away the tears and fears of tomorrow.

As Young as You Feel A trip to the local fair takes an unexpected turn I have always appeared younger than my chronological age. At 17, and high school graduation, I still looked 15. It did nothing for my dating life, but my mother consoled me saying I would someday reap the benefits of a youthful appearance. When I worked undercover in the FBI as a college-age student, and I was already a couple years out of law school, no one was the wiser and we had a very successful operation. Point taken, Mom, thank you. You cannot pick them, but you have to have parents with “good” DNA.

One afternoon, a few months after my husband died, I absent-mindedly began dismantling a Lego Friends house gathering dust on a shelf in my daughter’s room. I tore off the pink roof and started tossing bricks into a shoebox. I was perpetually tidying, an obvious effort to create order in the chaos of loss. I’d sweep and scrub and shuffle papers—anything to keep my hands busy. It was like I was back at university and stressed about a big exam; instead of studying, I’d frantically clean as if I might find answers hidden somewhere under the debris. Now I was facing a mountain of death ...

What’s on the shelf at Lake Region Library Celeste Ertelt DEVILS LAKE – The Library not charging the $1.00 fee for movies placed in the drop box at this time.  Please feel free to place them in the drop box. For our March Book Club we will be reading Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Book discussion will be on April 7 at 5:30pm. Please see library staff for books and details. Also new book displays honoring Women’s History Month, Irish-American Heritage month, and Love Gone Wrong. Fast Ice by Clive Cussler (Adult Fiction). In the early days of World War II, the infamous Ger...