Day Eight!

Today was hectic! Today I was invited to ride along with one of the drivers, Ryan, while he picked up patrons to take to the Wayne County Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped for their monthly book club meeting (they partner up with the Douglass Branch LBPH).  I then was invited to go along to the book club meeting and take part in the discussion.  Unfortunately, I had only read one of the two books that they had read for this month's meeting, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, but it was still nice to sit in and listen to what they thought of that, and the other book, which was called The President's Daughter, which sounded like it would be really interesting.  It was a fictional account about the daughter Thomas Jefferson had with his slave, Sally Hemmings.  It was nice to meet the people in the book club; they all seemed like avid readers, and certainly don't allow their lack of vision keep them from enjoying books.  Plus, they were all very kind, and I enjoyed getting to know them.

Before I went to the book club meeting, I was asked to pull books for a patron who I (along with a librarian and driver) will be visiting at her home on Thursday so that we can drop off books to her.  She reads Children's-level books, and particularly like books about animals.  Horses are her favorite.  So, from the selection of Juvenile fiction that was available from the library, I tried to pick out books about animals, a couple of which were about horses, that I thought would interest her.  It was difficult, though, because I have never met the patron, and I wasn't given a list of what she has previously read; I just was asked to pick out books that were juvenile fiction and were about animals.  So we'll see if she actually likes what I picked out!

And that's all I did today, as by the time I got back from the book club meeting, it was time for me to go!  On Thursday I will be going a retirement facility to visit the previously mentioned patron and a couple of others to drop off books to them.  I think it will be a great experience!