Good Reads

An Irish Country Series You’ll Enjoy

January 27, 2011

I love to read – and I read a lot. Even still, there are not many authors who I think about when I’m not reading their work…but, there is something about Patrick Taylor and his charming village of Ballybucklebo in northern Ireland that has me spellbound.  The first in the series is An Irish Country [...]

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Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time

January 6, 2011

I read a great little book while I was on vacation:  The Lost Art of Reading, by David L. Ulin. And I had been feeling the need for a good long read, for several weeks now. Having learned all about how the mind relaxes when it “escapes” into an alternate reality, I understand better, my [...]

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A Reading Blog You Might Like

November 6, 2010

I am so impressed with this website that I thought you might want to read it: http://www.sheistoofondofbooks.com Click on the Book Review tab, and there are hundreds of titles to explore: http://www.sheistoofondofbooks.com/book-reviews There’s a section for teen reads, and children’s selections. There are contests and reading challenges for the ambitious. The site is updated nearly [...]

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What Bob Woodward is reading…

October 22, 2010

Maybe you heard or read that I went to see Bob Woodward speak this week, as he was a visiting lecturer at the College of the Holy Cross.  After an hour of fascinating anecdotes ranging from his own personal encounters with some pretty powerful folk, from the Nixon to the Obama years, I had to [...]

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Election Season Reading

October 13, 2010

It must be the upcoming election for I have been reading lots of my favorite Dewey section 973.931, current affairs.  Here are three I have read this fall: First, it was The Bridge : The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, by David Melnick, editor of The New Yorker Magazine, a book that explores Obama’s [...]

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Zeitoun

August 27, 2010

On this, the fifth anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, I have been reading Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers.  I am listening to it on CD, and it is compelling.  It’s about the survival (I think) of one Abdulramen Zeitoun, a successful business owner and real estate investor in New Orleans, and his family, during and [...]

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The First Wednesday Book Group

July 27, 2010

The Library’s “First Wednesday” book group is not meeting formally in July and August, but is reading The Book Thief, along with all Algonquin students, throughout the summer. The book group will be meeting on September 1, at 10:15 a.m. at the Library, to discuss this book and to plan for reading in the fall [...]

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