Dianna Lucas You are invited to the Robson Library on Thursday, Feb. 15, at 2:30 p.m. for the first book discussion of the year. Julia Kellogg, Richard Kushmaul, and Marsha Scholze will be leading the discussion on Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann. Even…
Dianna Lucas Here’s good news you have all been waiting to hear! The Friends of the Library has decided to increase the number of book talks in 2024 from four to five. Also, due to popular demand, two of the discussions will be held at 6:30 in the evening for those of you who want…
Jane Scholz About 40 Robson residents gathered in the CATC library for a lively discussion of All the Light We Cannot See, a moving novel of a blind girl navigating war-torn France during World War II. The discussion, organized by Friends of the Library, was led by Lynn Moore and Joan Pursley. The group agreed…
Joan Muyskens Pursley The Robson Library holds more than 3,200 books—a combination of non-fiction and fiction—but that’s not all. Equally popular (some say more popular) is its collection of jigsaw puzzles. Currently, there are 355 puzzles on the shelves, and, at all times, another 80 to 150 waiting to be added to the collection, according…
Dianna Lucas and Jane Scholz I’ve mentioned the new shelves in the Robson Library a few times in past articles. They’ve been installed and make an impressive addition to our space. Now it’s time to talk about the books that will fill those shelves. For the first time in our history, we are able to…
Joan Muyskens Pursley If you’ve visited the library recently, you will have noticed that we have additional shelving. This was made possible by a gift from Friends of the Library and our Homeowners Association. The current collection has been rearranged to facilitate browsing. Now the library board is planning to build popular sections. Thus, we…
Joan Muyskens Pursley This final feature on the wonderful residents who work in our library introduces seven women who responded to our late-fall call for new volunteers to fill open time slots and help us extend library staff services into the early evenings and weekends. They are Beth Di Tommaso, Phyllis Formhals, Judy Gillespie, Judy…
Ken Arthur Every good author who creates a literary world in his or her novels has a niche, something special about their characters or location or the string of their plots. Linda Castillo is not a good author, she is a great author who has created in her Kate Burkholder novels a group of characters…
Joan Muyskens Pursley Our all-volunteer library has a great group of workers. Here we introduce the Thursday staff. Working from 9 to 11 a.m. are Cindy Brekke and Barb Roberts. Cindy “has lived in the north, south, east, and west U.S., and decided to move to Texas 17 years ago,” she says. The retired consultant…
Gil Clifton Wow, what a visit the Robson Library had on June 11 from the Denton Public Library. We here at Robson have had a very close relationship with the Denton Library for many years. Unfortunately, we have not had a visit from them for over 18 months due to the COVID pandemic. With the…