If you’ve never read The Great Gatsby, or it’s just been a while since high school/college (like moi), then there is no better time to discover or re-experience F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s classic mulling of power, money, and obsession.
At …
If you’ve never read The Great Gatsby, or it’s just been a while since high school/college (like moi), then there is no better time to discover or re-experience F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s classic mulling of power, money, and obsession.
At …
Teens:
The 2013 Teen Art Contest’s theme is “Magnificent, Majestic, Marvelous, Memorable Mosaics,” and entrants should try to embody that theme in their work. Judges will give special consideration to art that fits the theme. Deadline for entries is April …
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If you can make it, be sure to attend our puppet show, “Dig into Reading,” this week at the temporary Central library. Frazzled Professor Diggs has lost a dinosaur bone that he needs for his dinosaur exhibit. Billy …
How did the sturdy Victorian gent that was Bram Stoker come to write Dracula? In Who was Dracula? Bram Stoker’s Trail of Blood, by Jim Steinmeyer, we learn who Bram Stoker was and hear the author’ case …
Last night’s Mindful Parenting program topic was, Encouraging Children’s Mastery and Perseverance, by Dr. Matthew Burson. Ideas like, “how do I not overextend my child while helping her discover her talents?,” and “when is it okay for him to quit?” …
The 2013 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced, and the ones that interest the bookish among us are:
Fiction- The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
History- Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam…
When it comes to beads and books, my philosophy is, “I like lots”. Sadly, I have curtailed my acquisition of both, but I still like to gather all my beads around me and gloat, in Gollum-like fashion. So, of …
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