All locations are closed on the Fourth of July. The Main Library now has Internet access and is fully operational.
February 1, 2011
Welcome to yet another innovation of e-book technology- the Vook, or a digital video book. This allows the reader/viewer to watch a video in the middle of a book. One writer raves about the way the Vook has improved her exercise routine. (You can skip to the fifth paragraph to hear about the Vook.) Or […]
January 29, 2011
Just in time for Valentines Day, Romance Reviews blog gives you the scoop on the latest Romance, Erotic and GLBT fiction and reviews old favorites as well.
January 29, 2011
Our latest Book Trailer of the Week is this stylish short for Carl Hiaasen’s outrageously offbeat novel Star Island. The madcap fun begins just as 22-year-old fading pop star Cheryl Bunterman (aka Cherry Pye) is frantically attempting a comeback designed by her uber stage mom, Weed Whacker wielding bodyguard, and fraternal twin publicists who’ve spent thousands […]
January 29, 2011
I’m going to be in so much trouble here—with librarians, with library users, with my coworkers—well, just about everyone I have talked to in the last six months. In my household, we are now the sheepish owners of a Kindle with Global 3G and wifi (as well as a Kobo, and ipad). How did this […]
January 28, 2011
Borders has received a reprieve from its financial woes. GE has arranged over a 1/2 billion dollar loan with many conditions attached in order for the chain to reorganize its debt. Stock shares immediately rose. Shira S.
January 27, 2011
The Case of the First Mystery Novelist The NY Times solves the mystery of who wrote the first detective novel. Published in 1865, The Notting Hill Mystery received rave reviews from Victorian critics as it pioneered the popular new mystery genre. Until now, however, the author’s identity has never been known. The Best Poetry of 2010 NPR’s picks for the […]
January 27, 2011
Recently I noticed that several adult novels seemed to have very similar covers and I wondered about this and what the publishers are trying to convey. In my case, the theme was the backs of women’s heads (see below). To me, this represents mysteriousness- any other thoughts out there? Sure enough, there are people out there who […]
January 26, 2011
Who knew that Vladimir Nabokov was a self-taught butterfly expert? While a curator of lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1945, he “came up with a sweeping hypothesis for the evolution” of Polyommatus blues. While his scientific ideas were not taken seriously at the time, just this past Tuesday in the […]
January 26, 2011
The Queens Public Library CEO Tom Galante decided that after 104 years, rather than continuing to cut hours and staff, it will “do something that goes against the very idea of a lending library and stop buying books.Galante said the mission of the library has shifted subtly, from lending books to providing English lessons, aiding job […]
January 25, 2011
The TS Eliot Prize for poetry by a writer from the UK has been awarded to Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel for literature in 1992. His work White Egrets won acclaim for being ” a moving, risk-taking and technically flawless book by a great poet,” according to the judges. It even includes two poems […]
