September 8, 2009
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night A while back a book on the library shelf caught my eye: 15,003 Answers: The Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia, 2nd edition. Just imagine how many family arguments could be settled at the Thanksgiving table if you had this book handy. Having given it a quick perusal, I found a […]
September 5, 2009
Browsing through the Recent Arrivals section here at EPL is a dangerous proposition. Finding incredible, brand new books that are just begging to be read is the easy part. It’s finding the time to read all the intriguing new books that’s hard. Next time you’re in the library, make some time to wander the section […]
August 28, 2009
I spotted an article yesterday about an e-book search tool that Sony is promoting. Here are the first few lines, and a link. – Jeff B., Reader’s Services Librarians’ delight: A device that helps readers borrow e-books Sony unveils tool to help readers find e-books on the e-shelves of local libraries By Matt Hamblen August […]
August 25, 2009
“Americans liked Ichiro because, for one thing, he was a throwback to another time. He had reintroduced them to a style of offense that many MLB fans, accustomed to andro-induced sluggers and tape-measure home runs, had forgotten – an attack based on the single, the hit and run, and intrepid baserunning that had once defined […]
August 24, 2009
Joan Wickersham’s fiction has appeared in a wide array of literary journals. She has also written essays and reviews for publications such as Glamour and Yankee, as well as a regular column in Architecture Boston magazine. Her first novel The Paper Anniversary was published in 1993. In 2008 her most recent book The Suicide Index: […]
August 24, 2009
In honor of Shark Week, the Discovery Channel’s annual weeklong series of television programs devoted to sharks, Poets.org has compiled 35 Poems about Sharks, and examined how the animals have been represented in classic and contemporary poetry.
August 24, 2009
Today’s find from out of the stacks is a little book called Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. The book is a project of SMITH Magazine, an online publication and community for storytellers of all stripes. Among other story projects, in 2006 SMITH launched the six-word memoir project […]
August 14, 2009
Since even those of us who work at the library are constantly surprised by all the cool, new, old, interesting, inspiring, and sometimes just downright strange books, music, movies, and websites that we come across every day, we’ve decided to start this new periodic column on the blog in order to share some of the more […]
August 3, 2009
It seems somehow very appropriate that George Orwell’s novels 1984 and Animal Farm are at the center of a controversy (and now lawsuit) surrounding Amazon’s unannounced deletions of the books from its customers’ Kindle ebook readers. It seems that the copies of the books Amazon had been selling were unauthorized versions, and when the bookselling […]
July 24, 2009
About two weeks ago, I watched the documentary, Manufactured Landscapes. It follows Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky around the globe and examines his beautiful photographs of the seldom seen consequences of globalization (read a full review here). At first while watching the movie I found the images of gigantic factories and mountains of industrial waste to […]
