Blog Category: Book Sketches
Posted by JDavanza on Wed, Apr 21
Librarians Margaret McNulty and Lauri Burke will be sharing book suggestions (and fun times) with the Library’s Book Sharers Club on April 27 from 10-11:30 AM.
Drop by the Library and take us on a journey through your favorite novel or nonfiction title - we’ll look forward to seeing you!
Posted by JDavanza on Tue, Apr 13
Time to immerse yourself in America’s Game via the Library’s Baseball Book Display. Heavy on the Red Sox, our exhibit does a fair job job of representing the other teams and ballparks across the nation as well. Go ahead enjoy summer’s sport though the novels and nonfiction titles set aside for you on the main floor of the Library. Feel free to pick up a copy of the booklist that goes with the exhibit.
And please don’t miss Providence Journal Columnist Ed Achorn’s...
Posted by JDavanza on Wed, Mar 31
directorsnotebook:
Library Director’s Notebook
April, 2010
Before there was texting, email, cell phones, telephones, telegrams, the post office ,inexpensive writing materials, or any degree of universal literacy, keeping in close communication with a distant friend was a difficult task. How much more difficult if the time and the place and the existing culture all conspire to keep you separated from the healing power of lifelong friendship.
Snow Flower and the...
Posted by JDavanza on Tue, Mar 30
Drop by the New York City Display to dive into novels of New York City Crime, past and present. The city scene is often a character in its own right in these thrilling tales of transgression and retribution, penned by some of the best in the business.
A few of the chillers recently put on our NYC display include:
Kenneth Abel - The Blue Wall
Ethan Black - At Hell’s Gate, The Broken Hearts Club
Frederick...
Posted by JDavanza on Fri, Mar 26
“In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love…”
We think that goes for women as well, so we’ve put up a sparkling and enticing Romance Novel Book Display on the main floor of the Library, (located in front of the new magazine section.) We’ve included contemporary romance, classic literary tales of love, and, some bubbly, chick lit selections as well. Several types of romance fiction lists are available at the display for you to take home with...
Posted by JDavanza on Fri, Mar 26
Back by popular demand, a Thriller Book Display is now located in the fiction collection on the Library’s main floor - we want to make it easy for you to get your fill of the thrills conjured by writers like Dan Brown, Lee Child, James Patterson, Alan Furst, John Grisham and many more… Come take out some old favorites and discover new ones - the display features a Thriller Book List you can pick up and take home with you.
Posted by JDavanza on Tue, Mar 23
INSIGHTFUL READS
Fix your eyes on these great suggestions from the Library’s Book Sharers group on March 23rd. Come in and see us, and check out a great read!
FICTION TITLES:
Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman
Haunted Ground by Erin...
Posted by JDavanza on Wed, Mar 17
Hollywood - the name signifies a world of American dreams and dreamers. Its influence seems to be riding higher than ever in the midst of the current economic downturn. As always, we want to be amused, amazed, transported from the routine of daily life into something more diverting and exciting. Movies are one of America’s most popular exports. Via movie theater, tape, DVD or streaming video, Hollywood films keep us entertained here at home as well. Yet, with all our wishes...
Posted by JDavanza on Mon, Mar 15
Drop by and enjoy our Music Book Display, currently up on the main floor of the Library. You’ll find memoirs and biographies of musicians, nonfiction titles on your favorite styles of music, and a variety of novels with a musical theme.
As William Congreve famously wrote: “Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast”. Perhaps true enough, unless of course that savagery erupts in a musical mystery novel, then, all bets are off…
A few of the musical mysteries...
Posted by JDavanza on Thu, Mar 11
“Harriet Jacobs, Lydia R. Diamond’s play telling the harrowing true story about the life of a slave in the years leading to the Civil War, will be peformed at Perishable Theatre in Providence, RI March 10 - 13.”
The play, described above, is based on the book Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl: Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs. Reading this performance advertisement brought the book forcefully back to mind.
Jacob's narrative, often published in...
