And a very happy Free For All birthday wish to Hans Fallada! You might not have heard of Hans Fallada. That’s ok. His work fell into general obscurity over the second half of the twentieth century. However, the grand and glorious people at the Melville House Press (whose blog is very nearly almost as terrific … Continue reading Five Book Friday!
And here’s a little factoid for your Quirky History files… Today is the birthday of sliced bread. Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, United States (pictured below, courtesy of The Woodstock Whisperer), graduated from what is now the Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology in Chicago in 1900, with a degree in optics. He went to work as a jeweler, … Continue reading Five Book Friday!
And many very happy Free-For-All birthday wishes to poet, prose writer, diplomat, and translator, Czesław Miłosz! Miłosz was born on this day in 1911 in Szetejnie, then part of the Russian Empire, now Lithuania. A polymath from a young age, Miłosz became fluent in Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, English, and French. His first volume of poetry … Continue reading Five Book Friday!
And a very happy Free For All birthday to Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian author, poet, and intellectual, who was born this day in 1903. Hedayat was raised in an aristocratic family with many ties to the French imperial government and, as a result, was sent to Europe to receive a “western” education at a fairly early age. … Continue reading Five Book Friday!
And a happy February to you all, dear readers! According to Punxsutawney Phil, the fattest groundhog I ever saw, we have six more weeks of winter before us…and do you know what that means?! More time for books!! I think I might be in the minority about being excited for more winter, but if you’re … Continue reading Five Book Friday!
We may have been saved by a holiday weekend, dear readers, but yesterday was Blue Monday, aka: the most depressing day of the year. The concept was first mentioned by Sky Travel in 2005, who purported to use “science” (ahem) to calculate the day when the glitter of the holidays fall off, the drear of … Continue reading Cheer Up!
Welcome, dear readers, to our first Five Book Friday post of the New Year! I don’t know about you, but the holiday season, though lovely, just gets a bit….relentless….at times. Which is why we at the Library love Blanket Fort Reading, about which, much more later. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t celebrate, right? So here … Continue reading Five Book Friday!