Director's Notebook

Director’s Notebook November, 2009 Mudbound by Hillary Jordan...

Fri, 10/30/2009 - 3:17pm -- KChin



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.

Library Director’s Notebook September, 2009 One of my...

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 4:04pm -- KChin



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.

Just when we thought it was safe to go into our gardens, writer...

Fri, 05/01/2009 - 11:31am -- KChin



Just when we thought it was safe to go into our gardens, writer and gardener Amy Stewart has decided to shake us up a little with her sly compendium of wicked plants.  The full title of Amy’s newest book is Wicked Plants: the weed that killed Lincoln’s mother and other botanical atrociities.

Director’s Notebook April, 2009 There are few events in history...

Tue, 04/07/2009 - 3:18pm -- KChin



Director’s Notebook

April, 2009

There are few events in history that have generated so much writing, analysis, film, and commentary as World War II, and in particular that horrific event known as the Holocaust.  It is very painful to read of the struggles of Jews and others caught up in the maelstrom of Nazi propoganda and violence, yet often books on WWII and the Holocaust are inspiring rather than depressing.

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