Blog Category: Book Sketches
Posted by JDavanza on Fri, Nov 06
We’re just a week away from the Friends GIANT Annual Book Sale!
This is the book sale everyone waits for! Tens of thousands of books in great condition, all sorted by category. Children’s books, mysteries, fiction, cook books, history… the list goes on! There are even some books so new and in such mint condition you can give them as gifts! (We won’t tell!)
Friday, November 13 is the paid preview. That means if you want to be among the very first to see these books, you will need to pay an...
Posted by JDavanza on Fri, Oct 30
Director’s Notebook
November, 2009
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan is a book I have avoided for a while. I started avoiding it when I first read a review about it in my favorite book catalog Bas Bleu. I continued to avoid it when I saw it on the bookshelves in the library. But when my friend Joanne raved about it, having recently read it, and eagerly offered to lend me her copy, I knew I couldn’t avoid it anymore.
Why would I avoid a book? In this case, not because I knew...
Posted by JDavanza on Thu, Oct 29
Can’t get to the Library because of an accident or chronic medical
condition? Live in Barrington? The Barrington Library can help!
Library Staff will deliver up to 15 library items, once a month,
to patrons’ homes -
Visit or call the Library at 247-1920 x 302 to ask about this free service.
Posted by JDavanza on Tue, Oct 27
Now You Can Join a Book Club and Talk About the Books YOU Love!
Join Lauri Burke and Margaret McNulty in an informal, drop-in, readers’ advisory group - “Book Sharing in the Round”.
Scheduled for Tuesdays from 10-11:30 AM on Jan. 26, Feb. 23, March 23, April 27, May 25 and June 22, 2010.
Bring any book you love and tell the group about it.
Do so via a three minute description that doesn’t give away the plot.
Just want to come and listen? You are welcome to do so.
Lists of group...
Posted by JDavanza on Tue, Oct 27
Booklovers, mark your calendars!
You won’t want to miss the Giant Annual Friends of Barrington Library Book Sale!
Saturday, November 14, 2009 FREE ADMISSION
Friday, November 13, Sale Preview (admission charged)
Check the local papers and our library flyers for more details!
Posted by JDavanza on Mon, Oct 19
When we read Poe, can Hallowe'en be far behind?
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 7 PM:
Join librarians Lauri Burke, Doug Swiszcz, and Deborah Barchi as they read three of Poe’s creepiest tales, in a darkened auditorium!
Come prepared—to be scared!
Posted by JDavanza on Wed, Oct 07
Director’s Notebook
October, 2009
It’s October; time for ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night. It’s also a great time to read literary ghost stories. Literary ghost stories are stories that are a cut above the crowd, as far as “scary” stories go. Written by highly respected writers with great skill and effectiveness, literary ghost stories as a genre date back about two hundred years ago, becoming exceedingly popular in the mid-Victorian period and...
Posted by JDavanza on Tue, Sep 29
Fusionworks is coming!
The Friends of the Barrington Library are happy to present Fusionworks in a special dance program called “Fusionworks Home Grown” on Sunday, October 4 at 2 PM. The lively dance program is suitable for the whole family and a wonderful way to learn more about the innovative world of modern dance. Preceding the program at 1:30 PM, the Friends will hold their annual meeting. Refreshments will follow the Fusionworks performance. Don’t miss this special event!
Posted by JDavanza on Mon, Sep 14
‘Tis the (flu shot) season…
There will be a flu shot clinic on Thursday, September 24, 2009 from 9 AM to 12 PM at the library. This year the shots are available to anyone 6 months or older. There is no charge for the shot for people with Bluecross, Medicare or United Heathcare coverage. People with other types of coverage will be charged $15; those with no coverage will be charged $25.00.
For more information about the flu shot clinic, contact www.thewellcomp.com
Posted by JDavanza on Wed, Sep 09
Library Director’s Notebook
September, 2009
One of my favorite writers whom not too many people know about is Barbara Pym. Pym, a British writer who wrote primarily in the 50’s and 60’s, was once called by a well-known literary critic "one of the most under appreciated writers of the 20th century.“ Well, I’d like to add another name to that list of the under appreciated: Dorothy Whipple.
I first heard about Dorothy Whipple while browsing through my favorite book catalog Bas Bleu. Bas...
