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• The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler (A Nice Person)

  

  Knopf, 2012, Fiction, 208 pp., Library Copy. My relationship with Anne Tyler has, as I said in my previous post, been a bit rocky. She's singular in the whole... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Post-Easter Reading Blitz

  

  Hope you all had a lovely Easter. Sorry I had nothing of note to post. It's difficult keeping our heads above water right now, what with my father-in-law... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Web Trawling: April 5, 2012

  

  Cheryl Strayed talks about 'Wild: A Memoir About Hiking and Grief': nyti.ms/Hj2KTb Libraries of the Rich and Famous: Part One, Part Two, Part Three Anne Tyler... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Cooking with Poo, Chicken Sexing and Mushrooms - Oh My!

  

  This is the winning title for the auspicious Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year! And a fine book it is, I'm sure. Sadly, it doesn't appear to be on... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2012 BOOKS

• "American Masters" on PBS: Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee

  

  I hope you were able to - or will be able, if it hasn't aired where you are yet - to catch the two episodes of the PBS series "American Masters" featuring... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

  

  ORANGE PRIZE LONGLIST TITLE WW Norton & Co., 2012, Fiction, 272 pp., Purchased - Kindle. "The next few days were full of shouting. Much cliché. It seemed that... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Photo of the Day

  

  Last Wednesday was my birthday. In honor of that I'm posting a photo of one of the lilies in the bouquet I received. The other part of my present was a gift car... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• It's That Time Again. The Orange Prize Longlist

  

  You may recall the inordinate amount of pride I felt when I called last year's Orange Prize Winner correctly: Tea Obreht's The Tiger's Wife. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sunday Salon: March 25, 2012

  

  It's a loverly day here in Chicagoland: sunny and in the 70s. It would be ideal to get out and do something fun, like pulling weeds in the garden, but alas I... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Distinction Between Literary and Genre Fiction

  

  We had a staff meeting this morning re: the new direction libraries are headed and what that will mean for our own library within the next 10-15 years. Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• While Trawling Through the Web One Day...

  

  Welcome to Tuesday, the week before my kids have Spring Break from school. And I don't. For what it's worth, my birthday (March 28) has always fallen the week o... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Interview with Irish-American Author Frank Delaney, the Great Storyteller

  

  Author Frank Delaney "The Most Eloquent Man in the World." - NPR “Every legend and all mythologies exist to teach us how to run our days. In kind fashion. A... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sunday Salon: March 18, 2012

  

  A big part of me wants to use today's platform to go on a tirade against all the callous people I've dealt with over the past few weeks but what good would... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sunday Salon: March 11, 2012 Edition

  

  Not reading quite the heavy volume I usually do lately, which you'll have noticed if you're still coming by to check my pulse regularly. Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• New Post on MOAM: Parenting and Mommy Blogging and Such

  "I figured since my daughter – and oldest child – turned 18 last December, making her an official adult, she wouldn’t mind me blogging about her using her real... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Books Vs. eBooks, Libraries Vs. Publishers

  Weirdly enough, I don't often post here as a librarian. Or, I should say, about being a librarian, specifically. But lately there's a continually rising trend s... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE