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Newspapers: Decline and Fall 23 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
Tom Rachman’s novel in stories, The Imperfectionists, is sure to start a conversation on a subject that is important to readers: the decline and fall of the newspaper. It’s set at an English-language ...
Comfort Food for Book Groups, Pt. 2 16 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
In this post I’ll continue to highlight the food-related books and culinary treats that came to the meeting of the Williamsburg Regional Library staff group. Pt. 1 of this post came out earlier this w...
The Girl with the Recessive Gene on Chromosome 16 14 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
“You’d find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair,” said Anne reproachfully. “People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is. Mrs. Thomas told that God made my hair red on purpos...
Comfort Food for Book Groups, Pt. 1 13 Aug 2013 | 05:18 am
The staff book group at Williamsburg Regional Library decided to try out a theme we had seen mentioned elsewhere, a meeting with books related to food turned into a potluck by bringing some of the dis...
A New York State of Crime: Lush Life 7 Aug 2013 | 03:17 am
Richard Price’s novel Lush Life has what it takes to please both crime fiction fans and those who like contemporary literary novels. The set-up is simple: three guys leave a Lower East Side bar. A fe...
Anthology Anthropology 26 Jul 2013 | 09:05 pm
I just finished a fat, fine anthology of poetry called The 20th Century in Poetry, edited by Michael Hulse and Simon Rae. It took me almost six months to nibble my way through the 800 pages of poems c...
A Memoir of Grief and Growing Up Soon to Grace the Big Screen: “The Rules of Inheritance” by Claire Bidwell Smith 22 Jul 2013 | 08:24 am
It was recently announced that Claire Bidwell Smith’s memoir, The Rules of Inheritance, will be made into a movie starring Academy-award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence. Smith lost both of her pare...
Blood, Bones, and Butter, by Gabrielle Hamilton 20 Jul 2013 | 11:06 am
After an idyllic early childhood, things came apart for Gabrielle Hamilton. Her parents’ marriage disintegrated, and she went from viewing her mother as a quirky icon to treating her as anathema. In t...
Born to Run; a hidden tribe, superathletes and the greatest race the world has never seen 18 Jul 2013 | 08:52 pm
Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, breathe the wild air. – Ralph Waldo Emerson* This year, I decided to train for a half-marathon. I turned forty last month (okay, a few years a...
Book Group Ideas from ALA 10 Jul 2013 | 07:58 pm
While I didn’t see any programs that were solely about book groups on the agenda at the recent ALA conference, there were many ideas that book groups could incorporate brought up in sessions I attende...
