All Booked Up

Windsor Library's Newsletter for Readers

October 2022

So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.

Howards Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood 

The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same. In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he's put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank . . . until one of them turns up dead. A perfectly creepy book for October! 

Raising a Reader (Kids or Teen Book of Interest)

All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold

Pencils sharpened in their case. Bells are ringing, let's make haste. School's beginning, dreams to chase. All are welcome here. Follow a group of children through a day in their school, where everyone is welcomed with open arms no matter their race, religion, or background. With vividly detailed illustrations and a gently reassuring text, this book celebrates kindness, inclusivity, and diversity. 

Windsor Library Reading Challenge: Read a Book About Travel

Overground Railroad: the Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor

The history of a travel guide for African Americans that reflected far more than just issues of mobility for its users. Meticulous research, lively anecdotes and numerous images combine to provide a powerful volume of social history. This book is available in both adult and young adult editions. 

Vagabonding: an Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-term World Travel by Rolf Potts

Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life--from six weeks to four months to two years--to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. 

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased.