Elsa Grieder returns to the Library to host a play reading series on Tuesday mornings at 10:00, May 27-June 17. Plays include The Good Doctor by Neil Simon, The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance, Coastal Disturbances by Tina Howe and The Perfect Party by A.R. Gurney. Registration begins at 9:00 AM on Thursday, May 15, 2008, in person or by phone at the Library’s Reference Desk (247-1920 x 2). Group is limited to 10 participants.
On Keeping a Reading Diary
My visionary friend Louise Blalock often asks people she cares about to give her a baby picture of themselves, and to describe a “lost book” from their childhood. “Everyone has one”, she’d say, “that wonderful book whose story you remember but whose title and author are lost to time. You’d give anything to find it again but the way to it is lost.”
It’s coming. Just like you remember it from childhood. May 18. Really.
What do you think of when you think “Spring”? Gardening? Outdoor exercise? Spring cleaning? Strawberry shortcake? What ever springs to mind, you are sure to find a book, magazine, or even movie about it–at the library!
Take a look at a collection of Lawn and Garden books currently on display in the new magazine section on the main floor of the Library. Checking out a few of these beautiful and helpful gardening books will give you a welcome preview of spring and summer!
Yes, the movie was powerful, but the book No Country for Old Men will knock your socks off! Check it out–at the library!
Award winning poet Michele Cooper will be reading from her recently published book Posting the Watch at the library on Tuesday, March 18 at 7PM. Michele is well-known in Rhode Island as editor of The Newport Review and the Crone’s Nest and for her tireless encouragement of poets, both new and experienced. Welcome Michele back to RI and enjoy her wonderful poems!
Before there was Carrie Bradshaw writing her column for Sex And the City, there was Dorothy Parker. As early as the 1920’s Parker was writing sexy, sardonic, stilletto-tipped stories about the battle of the sexes for such respected magazines as Vogue and Vanity Fair. In Parker’s ascerbic world, the women usually come across looking obsessive, silly, and shallow; but the men, shown usually as either clueless or feckless, don’t fare very much better.
