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Just Kids by Patti Smith
In 1967 Patti Smith left her childhood home in South Jersey and, with very little money, moved to New York City to make it as an artist. On one of her first days there she met Robert Mapplethorpe who would become her friend, lover and artistic booster. In Just Kids the legendary musician recounts the…
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A Slightly New Direction
As you know I’ve struggled to keep Gudrun’s Tights going over the past year. And I’m struggling now. I love blogging and I love the friendships I’ve made through blogging, but I am feeling completely uninspired and cold about it all right now. Sometimes I think that anything I have to say has already been…
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Everyday Inspiration
You might find this hard to believe, but working in a library is not the most glamorous affair. Our public area is quite colorful and attractive, but our staff room is, despite our best efforts, a bit dull, grey and cluttered with harsh lighting pouring down and casting shadows over everything. My desk faces a…
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Cover Collection: Possession
All covers from Vintage Possession by A.S. Byatt is one of my favorite books and one of the only novels that I’ve read more than once over the years. I last read it two years ago and, though it didn’t have the same hold over me as it did when I was 20, it was…
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Sunday Bulletin 4/6
We’ve had beautiful weather this week in central Arizona. I’ve been walking every evening and I’ve soaked in all the cool, blossom scented air and delighted in the feel of it on my skin. It might be the last nice weather of the season as temperatures are predicted to soar to the 90’s by the…
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What I Read In March
March was a hugely productive reading month for me. I finished nine books (one of them an audiobook) and mostly enjoyed the things I read, though there really wasn’t that ‘killer’ book that knocked my reading socks off. A bunch of decent reads is much better than a run of stinkers, though, so I’m not…
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Sunday Bulletin 3/30
Hello! I hope you’ve had a great week. Mine has been busy, interesting yet mostly routine, aside from a curious bout of stomach flu that overtook me on Friday and yesterday. Thankfully, I am feeling much better today. My book group met on Tuesday evening and we discussed The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham.…
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Recent Arrivals
I am having a devil of a time writing about books these days. As soon as I sit down at the computer to write about a book I’ve finished my mouth goes dry and my mind goes blank. Is there such a thing as blogging anxiety? I can’t seem to find a way around this,…
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Sunday Bulletin 3/23
Hello there! I missed a Sunday Bulletin last week as I worked the entire weekend and just didn’t find time to write up a post. I’ve been reading like a madwoman lately and many evenings I don’t even turn on my computer. I feel that I’m not very effective at time management because so many…
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The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
Have you heard of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence? It is a fairly new award (started in 2012) for fiction and nonfiction that is given out every June by the American Library Association. The award is chosen by a group of library professionals. The committee’s chairman is Nancy Pearl, the only librarian who has…
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