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• Ventures into Unknown Territories 46:70

  

  Picture of Ship by pyxelatedThe Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carrol (1874) Length: 291-307 in the Oxford Book of Narrative Verse. Genre: Nonsense Lyric Poem... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 BOOKS

• Ventures into Unknown Territories 45:70

  

  Charles B. Cory Montezuma's Castle (1899) Genre: Travel Adventure Length: Three Pages Summary - No SpoilerThe tale is a retelling of an event that is told by th... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Stories "Ventures into Unknown Terreritory " 44:70

  

  The Story is Named after a Ghostly Salamander. The Road Out of Axotle by Terry Southern (Esquire 1962)Length: 18 PagesGenre: 1960's Beats (a quest)One Sentence... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Stories "Ventures into Unknown Terreritory " 43:70

  

  Image from bezalel instritute of Art. A Cat in the Rain by Ernest Hemingway (Link Opens up into a PDF File) Length: 2 PagesGenre: Lost Generation, Romance,... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Stories "Ventures into Unknown Terreritory " 42:70

  

  Requiem by Robert H. Heinline (1940)Length: Seventeen PagesGenre: Science Fiction-Space Travel-Romance Short Summary-No SpoilerRobert H. Heinline answers the... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Movie Reviews: Only Sharing the Ones I Loved

  

  Go to Review on Butler's Cinema Scene Buck (2011)Viewed on Netflix Instant Que (1.16.2012)also on Show Time (until 1.17.2012)Genre: DocumentaryAge Group Best:... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Stories: "Ventures into Unknown Terreritory 41:70

  

  Pierce Arrow Automobile Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald(Metropolitan Magazine in 1922)Length: 5 Pages +Genre: Lost Generation, Romance Short Summary-No... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Stories: Ventures into Unknown Territory 40:70

  

  Araby by James Joyce (1914)Length - Five PagesGenre: Irish Fiction Short Summary-No Spoiler A young innocent boy from Dublin yearns to write of an adventure tha... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Stories: Ventures into Unknown Territory 39:70

  

  Adrian Berg, R.A. (b. 1929) The Lake, Kew Gardens, Summer, Night 1984 Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf 1919Length:Four PagesGenre/Movements: Impressionism and... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Stories: Ventures into Unknown Territory 38:70

  

  Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest HemingwayLength: 6 pagesGenre: Minimalism, Naturalism, Hemingway.Non Spoiler Summary A man and a woman attempt to... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Stories: Ventures into Unknown Territory 37:70

  

  A Drowning Incident by Cormac McCarthy (1960)Genre: Southern Gothic, Western, modernistLength: Two PagesNon Spoiler Summary:A walk in nature reveals the story t... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• 2011-2012 Winter Short Story Festival 36:70

  

  A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner (1930)Length:9 PagesGenre: Southern Gothic Non Spoiler Summary Emily attempts to utilize her strength to keep her home, as... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Library Notes

  

  Where do I get my photos? I get my photo ideas from reading a variety of things. I look up the art when it speaks of a piece or an artist. Then once I Google th... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• 2011-2012 Winter Short Story Festival 35:70

  

  Wake for Susan by Cormac McCarthy (1959) Cormac McCarthy beautifully describes the setting:Here in the graveyard, scrubby pines grew boldly within a circle of... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• 2011-2012 Winter Short Story Festival 34:70

  

  Prairie by Brian Evenson is a "Zombie Tale" of our Pioneer Past, when Pioneers had to do things that were often left out of the annals of history. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Library Notes

  

  I am currently reading the Stand and now that this will take me a long time. The book has a great following and one group of Stand fans twittered a version of... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• 2011-2012 Winter Short Story Festival 33:70

  

  The old strange man walks back and forth patrolling the small town. Does anyone know where he came from? Does anyone know how long he has been on his patrol? Wh... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• 2011-2012 Winter Short Story Festival 32:70

  

  A Suburban Fairy Tale by Katherine Mansfield Mr. B. was a stout youngish man who hadn't been able—worse luck—to chuck his job and join the Army; he'd tried for... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• 2011-2012 Winter Short Story Festival 31:70

  

  Where is the Voice Coming From by Eudora Welty.What caused a white man who lived and worked on Deacon Street in Thermopylae, Mississippi, to kill a black man wh... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• 2011-2012 Winter Short Story Festival 30:70

  

  Alice Walker's The Color Purple is the next book in our Library Book Sandwiched In Book Club. Here is a short story by Walker titled Use. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT