If you’ve been thinking about learning how to knit or you’re a pro who can interpret s1k1psso without referencing a knitting glossary, the library has a book, magazine, or DVD to interest you. From the practical ball-band dishcloth in Mason Dixon Knitting: the Curious Knitter’s Guide by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne, to the whimsical Elvis [...]
July 20, 2010
My Name Is Memory
“Do you come here often?” “You look so familiar! I must have known you in a past life.” “Heaven must be missing an angel.” These are a few of the pick up lines people use thinking they’re being smooth when, laughably, they are actually the fodder of every comedy movie out there. But there might be truth [...]
June 19, 2010
20 Under 40
The New Yorker‘s Summer Fiction Issue features its list of “20 under 40.” Published every 10 years or so, this list features a handful of writers “who capture the inventiveness and the vitality of contemporary American fiction.” These lucky few are the young fiction writers whom The New Yorker editors “believe are, or will be, key [...]
June 8, 2010
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
Pick it up. Put it down. Pick it up. Nah. Put it down. This was me when I first saw the cover of Brunonia Barry’s The Map of True Places. I thought, “This looks like a romance.” I must’ve picked it up and put it down half a dozen times before even reading a description [...]
May 11, 2010
Read-Alikes
Cigarettes were the Agent Orange you paid for. –Sully (Hearts in Atlantis) The Things They Carried is widely hailed as one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. Sometimes poignant war stories sneak up on you, where you least expect them. I recently picked up Stephen King’s Hearts in Atlantis due to a recommendation I [...]
May 6, 2010
Award-Winning Mysteries
Are you craving a great new mystery? Look no further than the Edgar Awards, the annual book prizes bestowed on top-notch mystery and crime writing by the Mystery Writers of America. The 2010 winners were announced last week in a variety of categories. Best Novel: The Last Child by John Hart Best First Novel by [...]
May 3, 2010
The Things They Carried
Many Americans think real-life war is like a John Wayne movie. American soldiers are upright, brave, and honorable. When someone dies, the soldiers act in ways the audience understands. When the story ends, everyone knows the moral. Well, Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried explodes this fantasy. In real life (and also in the [...]
April 28, 2010
Free Film Screening: Vietnam War Documentaries
On Sunday, May 2 at 2 p.m., two Vietnam War-era documentaries will be shown at the Everett Public Library Main Library auditorium as part of The Big Read program featuring The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s fictional account of the Vietnam War. These films and their creation and distribution are a part, perhaps less well known, of [...]
April 26, 2010
May is the Month of the Big Read
We are pleased to be participating in our second year of our partnership with the Sno-Isle Libraries in bringing The Big Read to all of Snohomish and Island Counties. The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture—to encourage reading for pleasure [...]
April 12, 2010
And the Winner Is…
The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually for achievement in newspaper journalism, literature, and musical competition in the United States. The 2010 awards were announced earlier today in a variety of categories. Fiction: Tinkers by Paul Harding History: The Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed Biography: The First Tycoon: The Epic [...]
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