First off, dear readers, some sincere apologies for missing you this week. A Kafka-esque combination of end-of-semester stress, a random power-outage, and plain old poor time-management skills meant that we didn’t get a chance to celebrate our new releases this past Friday. So, as a means of making amends, we present you here with The … Continue reading Six Book Sunday!
We were mired in a wealth of technical difficulties on Friday, beloved patrons (it’s been a frustrating month for technology, but we hope that it’s all under control at last), and as a result, we missed our regular Five Book Friday post, for which, a whole wheelbarrow-full of apologies. As a way to make it … Continue reading Six Book Sunday!
We’re changing things up a bit today, beloved patrons. Because tomorrow is Caturday at the South Branch, a celebration of all things feline. Thanks to the brilliant (and cat-loving) Lady Pole, the South Branch will be bringing you a day of cats and the people who love them. Not only will there be cat … Continue reading Five Cat Friday!
Due to some technical difficulties, and my laptop making friends with a cup of tea recently, we were unable to bring you our regular Five Book Friday post as per usual, for which we heartily apologize. To make it up to you, however, we are moving our previous post to Sunday, and including an extra … Continue reading Six Book Sunday!
We’ll be back with another Five Book Friday next week, but we wanted to commemorate this auspicious day with a poem that originally appeared in the July 1936 issue of Esquire Magazine: Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes, 1902 – 1967 Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. … Continue reading “Let it be the dream it used to be…”
Dear Cubs Fans (and baseball fans…and people in desperate need of a happy ending…), Congratulations! The Cubs won their first World Series since 1908! People and commentators have been throwing around facts to put that length of time in perspective: the last time the Cubs won the World Series, Teddy Roosevelt was President, women couldn’t … Continue reading Yay Cubs!
I hope loyal readers of this blog have figured out by now that we here at the Peabody Library love books. We love reading, pairing great books with the right reader, defending the reader’s right to read and talking about cool things in the book world. We also love movies (bonus if they’re literary adaptations) … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: The Readers’ Advisory will be televised…