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The Help – Read-alikes While you Wait
The bestseller , The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, is in high demand with the movie release just a few days away ( August 10!) Try one of these suggested read-alikes while you are moving down the hold list: The Dry Grass of August - In 1954, 13-year-old...
Posted: 8/9/2011 11:51 AM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Our Beautiful Self
You wouldn’t be reading Stacked if you weren’t a bit of a goof-off, so you have probably long since discovered Shorpy, one of the most agreeable goof-off sites of all time, in which case you will have already spent ten minutes looking at the HD version...
Posted: 8/9/2011 10:36 AM in Stacked
Barbara Kingsolver
Novelist Barbara Kingsolver will be presented this year with the newly renamed Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award by the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. First awarded in 2006 and based on the peace accords drawn up in Dayton, Ohio, to end...
Posted: 8/8/2011 12:54 PM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Coincidence?
Nicholson Baker spoke at the Mercantile Library in May. In August, he was the subject of a fawning profile in the New York Times Magazine. It’s called “The Mercantile Effect.” -Norm De Plume
Posted: 8/5/2011 1:02 PM in Stacked
Writing Prompts for August 11, 2011
WM Creative Writing prompts for the week of Aug. 11, 2011: Begin and/or end your story with the following: Well, for the love of Pete, Zip, zip, zip, that’s how it went What was your reaction when you heard And the tomatoes are doing fine Five words:...
Posted: 8/4/2011 3:10 PM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Writing Prompts for August 4, 2011
Prompts for the week of August 4, 2011: Prompts: Begin and/or end your story with the following: My stupid dog Just the thought of it made me Some friendships will pass the test of time Create a short story using these five words: Laundy, tomatoes, ditch...
Posted: 8/4/2011 11:22 AM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Reading Louisiana
I was recently in Louisiana and it’s definitely a place with a lot of character. We have lots of great books set in the state, so I though I’d share some with you. Fiction Series Hot Blooded by Lisa Jackson – The first book in Jackson’s New Orleans romantic...
Posted: 8/4/2011 8:46 AM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Kubrick’s Cube
In honor of tonight’s third and final installment of our first Cinema 11 series, here are a couple of pertinent links: the hilarious Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Psychopath Test, etc.) in The Guardian on being set loose in Kubrik’s archives....
Posted: 8/3/2011 4:51 PM in Stacked
Making the Most of Flea Market Finds
The 127 Sale also known as the World’s Longest Yard Sale runs from August 4-7 and spans five states from Michigan to Alabama. If you love to rummage yard sales, flea markets and thrift stores for treasures then this is the yearly sale for you. Whether...
Posted: 8/3/2011 9:10 AM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Weekend Reading: The King of Diamonds
Readers in search of a dignified, sedately paced, period, police procedural along the lines of, but not as long winded as, P.D. James may want to have a go at Simon Tolkien’s new 1960s detective story The King of Diamonds. We found it slow going to get...
Posted: 8/1/2011 9:32 AM in Stacked
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