SKCTC Middlesboro Library

The topics of Forensic Science and Crime Scene Investigation have become very popular recently with the rise in television programs on the subject.  We have recently obtained some interesting books on the subject.  In order to make them easier to find, we have put some of these books on a display just inside the front [...]

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We started the SKCTC Middlesboro blog a while ago, but got a bit sidetracked and haven’t posted for a while.  We are now going to get back on track with library news, photos, and book information.  We look forward to hearing from our students and the SKCTC community!  Please feel free to contact us with [...]

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Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala is the second of two books about Guatemala that I have read over the past two months.  I prefer the first book,  Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala, which I read in August shortly after returning from that country. Although a [...]

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I’m going back and rereading the children’s classics(especially Newberry award and honor books=2-5 per week) since I don’t do TV.

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I’ve just read Robert Morgan’s Gap Creek (of Oprah’s book club fame) and his more recent novel This Rock. I enjoyed both, but I really can’t understand why Oprah picked the former and not the latter, other than GC has a strong female protagonist. GC spans the first year of marriage for  Hank and Julie [...]

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Hunter’s Horn  PS3501.R64 H86 1997 I recently read the Appalachian classic Hunter’s Horn by Harriet Arnow. I was blown away by her characterization and rich prose. At first, the text looks intimidating because the font is smaller than standard and at 600+ pages, it appears so dense as to be impenetrable. In addition, many readers [...]

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Freakonomics is a must read, and we have it in our library.   HB74.P8 L479 2005

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I’m currently enjoying reading the book Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? More Puzzles in Classic Fiction by John Sutherland which tries to answer some of the great puzzles in literary history, including: How vulgar is Mrs. Elton? (Jane Austen’s Emma) Why is Fagin hanged and why isn’t Pip prosecuted? (Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Great [...]

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While visiting Guatemala over the summer, I heard a lot about the Civil War there.  I knew of this conflict but did not realize how brutal, how ugly, it was. Entire villages were wiped out and terrible atrocities were committed; many (indeed, the vast majority) of the victims were non-combatants, including children, women, the elderly.  Ultimately, some [...]

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Peggy Marcum keeps me supplied in books, and has all summer. She introduced me to an author who is originally from KY, but don’t know exactly where. The Charlie Moon Mysteries, that I really, truly enjoyed ! The author’s name is  James D.Doss.  The main character is of course, Charlie Moon a detective for the [...]

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