And a very happy Free For All birthday today to Charles Perrault, French author, and one of the founders of the fairy tale genre. If you’ve ever read Cinderella, Puss In Boots, or Little Red Riding Hood, you’re familiar with Perrault’s work. Born on this day in 1628 to a wealthy family, he trained as a lawyer, and began … Continue reading Five Book Friday!
Now that summer is definitely upon us (definitely here this time around–it’s baking hot out there!), it’s time once again for the Free-For-All to share with you some of our lovely staff’s selections for summer reading! We are a staff of diverse reading/listening/viewing habits, which makes these posts so much fun. There is such a … Continue reading Summer Staff Selections!
Someone at a holiday party started talking about New Year’s Resolutions yesterday, which is a conversation I generally despise…but this time around, I came up with an answer. I want to learn to be more like Jessica Fletcher. For those of you who have never had the good fortune to meet Jessica, she is the … Continue reading My New Year’s Resolution…
The Library is closed today, dear patrons, but that is no reason not to get all excited about the neat books that have made it on to our shelves this past week, and make plans to come and scoop them (and plenty of others) up when the time is right. Just a reminder that we’ll … Continue reading Five Book Friday!
I’m guessing by now that readers of Free For All recognize that we here at the blog love books, and reading and clearly, we love talking about books. For a while (OK, still, but we’ve managed to control ourselves recently) blogger-in-chief Arabella and I couldn’t stop talking about Susanna Clarke’s wonderfully magical tome, Jonathan Strange … Continue reading A Saturdays @ the South Bibliophile Confession: When book lovers don’t love your book back…
Today, we dip into our Bookish News file and pull up an editorial written by author Glen Duncan for The New York Times in October of 2011. The piece is, from its first sentence, a study in “nerd-baiting”, to borrow a phrase, though we should not ignore the charming threads of misogyny woven throughout the piece, beginning … Continue reading No-one Puts (zombie) Baby in a Corner…in defense of genre fiction (And some other things)
Welcome to Saturdays @ the South! Every Saturday, we’ll be posting about books and programs that are popular at the Library’s South Branch (78 Lynn St.) and other literature, movie and library-related musings that strike our fancy. I hope you’ll join us each week and discover something new! To start things off, I thought it … Continue reading Welcome to Saturdays at the South!