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Summer Reading at the Beach

READERS ABOUND AT ST GEORGE ISLAND


Cut Like a Knife. by  M. K. Gilroy

Emperor of All Maladies. A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjer

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

Inferno by Dan Brown. (2)

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith  by Jon Krakauer

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

Getting Ready for Beach Reading

Bags are almost completely packed. Kindles are loaded and so is iphone.

My Kindle

Julia's Chocolates
Cathy Lamb

The Iron King

Julie Kagawa

  Stand by Me
  Neta Jackson
 

Iphone

E Book that would not load to Kindle but would to Overdrive and I Phone

Come to the Table
 Neta Jackson

Audio Book for the drive

Double Minds

Terri Blackstock

Husband's Kindle

    Inferno

    Dan Brown

Also a stack of magazines....HGTV, Country Living, Martha Stewart, and Veranda

Reading through the 2013 World Book Night Book List

I am making a try to read through the 2013 World Book Night book list.  Here is the link


http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/books/2013

Just finished The Handmaid's Tale

and The Language of Flowers



Nonfiction Readers.......You rock!

Having just finished Laura Bush's 2010 biography  Spoken from the Heart I need to applaud all you nonfiction readers. It's hard work. I can breeze through a novel in no time at all, but this nonfiction reading requires rapt attention. 

A friend called and said "you've got to read this Laura Bush biography, we could have written it."  NOT!!  Just because we are both only children, born in the early 50's, with many of the same early life experiences (and also the fact that I am a retired librarian)  does not make me capable of penning this book. Once they begin campaigning for George H. W. Bush they are out of my league. 

I learned a lot about Mrs. Bush, the White House, the duties of the first lady, her role in promoting her special causes....books, National Book Festival, women's rights around the world, her passion for Africa and Afghanistan women, rebuilding of schools and libraries post Katrina, her friendships, building of their ranch in Texas, the compassion for post 9-11 victims by both President Bush and Laura and her love of family.  I was especially touched by the story of the Burmese refugees in Thailand who were living in refugee camps for the 2nd generation, however, it may be because that particular story was near the end, I saw light at the end of the tunnel, could pay more attention and not worry how many more names, acronyms, meetings, summits, friends were left.

 Again, I learned an awful lot but again, it was hard work.

Links for Book Lovers

Discovered a neat link yesterday due to a post on the librarian's list serv. 
http://www.forgottenbookmarks.com/
A used book dealer blogs about bookmarks found in the old books he purchases. 


Another I love to visit

http://undergroundnewyorkpubliclibrary.com/

People caught reading on the subway in New York. Their books are identified too.


Posted about this one before but is a cool site to see how people display and shelve their book collections.

http://bookshelfporn.com/


And for you librarians, Barbara Braxton of Australia does a fantastic job of discussing ways to make you and your job indispensible to your school and your patrons.

http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2012/7/12/peeing-on-the-job-guest-post-by-barbara-braxton.html