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MCLS Awarded Big Read Grant

mclswebblog wrote 3 days ago: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  July 15, 2009  CONTACT:   Lynn Warner 772-219-4975 lwarner@martin.fl.us MART … more →

Tags: Adult Programming, children's programming, teen programming, artsfest, blake, Donna Tunsoy, grant, Jonathan Dickinson Park, Mark Twain

Sydney Writers’ Festival The Big Read

bronwynr wrote 2 months ago: Sydney Writers’ Festival The Big Read title for 2009 is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby … more →

Tags: Books, f. scott fitzgerald, Sydney Writers Festival, The Great Gatsby

Spotting the Jewish in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

CPO wrote 2 months ago: Tomorrow night at 7pm we’ll be screening (for free) the film version of Carson McCuller’ … more →

Tags: Arts, Alan Arkin, Carson McCullers, film, Screening Room, Southern Jews, the heart is a lonely hunter

Eugene Robinson in Tallahassee2 comments

fakename2 wrote 2 months ago: For those of you who don’t know who Eugene Robinson is, he is a writer for the Washington Post … more →

Tags: Books, Tallahassee, Pulitzer Prize, Commentary, Eugene Robinson, Libraries, eehard

The Gormenghast Trilogy, by Mervyn Peake

neilbowers wrote 2 months ago: I first had a go at reading the Gormenghast trilogy about 24 years ago, at the age of 19, when I … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, Fiction, Reviews

Gatsby -- the last chapters

wcflblogs wrote 2 months ago: After the violence of the climactic events of chapter 7, the rest of the book is somehow placid.  Be … more →

Tags: Books, Recommendations, Great Gatsby

Gatsby, Chapter 7

wcflblogs wrote 2 months ago: This is the crucial chapter, it seems to me.  Even without having read the book all the way through, … more →

Tags: Books, Recommendations, Great Gatsby

The Big Read2 comments

The Librarienne wrote 3 months ago: Remember a while ago when I described reading as a solitary activity? Well, it still is, that can … more →

Tags: By: The Librarienne, Libraries, Books/Authors, If all of Seattle read the same book

Thoughts on Gatsby, chapters 5 and 6

wcflblogs wrote 3 months ago: Further  observations as I reread The Great Gatsby — our “Big Read” for this year. … more →

Tags: Books, Recommendations, Great Gatsby

Thoughts on Great Gatsby - chapters 3 and 4

wcflblogs wrote 3 months ago: More observations as I reread The Great Gatsby — our “Big Read” for this year. Th … more →

Tags: Books, Recommendations, Great Gatsby

Thoughts on Great Gatsby - chapters 1 and 2

wcflblogs wrote 4 months ago: I’ve been enjoying rereading The Great Gatsby – my thanks to the powers that be who chos … more →

Tags: Books, Recommendations, Great Gatsby

Tell us what you think about Gatsby

wcflblogs wrote 4 months ago: As we announced below, the Big Read is going on in Washington County this month and next — the … more →

Tags: Books, Events, Book Clubs, Great Gatsby

The Big Read - read The Great Gatsby together with us!

wcflblogs wrote 4 months ago: Have you always wanted to join a book club, but don’t have the time?  Here’s your chance … more →

Tags: Books, Events, Book Clubs, Great Gatsby

Project: Big Read - update

philomathickat wrote 5 months ago: So a little while ago I embarked upon a project to read all of Britain’s best-loved books. I … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, projects

The BIG READ 2009 Hickory Kickoff

Justin Roepel wrote 5 months ago: On Saturday January 31st, the Hickory Public Library will be kicking off its annual BIG READ campa … more →

Tags: Travel, Books, Civil War, Hickory NC, March, Geraldine Brooks

Book Review: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

neilbowers wrote 6 months ago: I finally finished reading Midnight’s Children. It had been on my reading list for a while, as … more →

Tags: Books, Fiction, Literature, Reading, Reviews

How do I do my devotionals...

hernseugene wrote 6 months ago: Thats a real good question…..Marsha asked me yesterday! There isn’t any right way to do … more →

Tags: Personal Growth, devotional, Youth, Jesus, Bible, God, Prayer, Devotional, Reading

YOUTUBE Contest to promote THE BIG READ at the Library

Elizabeth wrote 7 months ago: YOUTUBE Contest to promote THE BIG READ at the Library Join the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library i … more →

Tags: Charlottesville, Reading, Movies, Books, Authors, Virginia, Contests, Fun, Jefferson-Madison Regional Library

Interested in The Big Read?

Ruth wrote 7 months ago: From the IMLS Newsletter: Time to Apply for The Big Read Application Deadline: February 3, 2009 IMLS … more →

Tags: Academic Libraries, General, Professional Interests, Public libraries, school libraries, special libraries, NLLN


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