Food for Fines Successful

Thank you to all of our library patrons who came into our libraries during National Library week and paid their fines with non-perishable food items. We were able to donate 254 pounds of food to the Stanly County Christian Ministries.

2008 Edgar Awards

At the 62nd Annual Edgar Awards ceremony, the Mystery Writers of America announced their 2008 winners. John Hart took home the Edgar for Best Novel for his sophomore effort, Down River. The Edgar for Best First Novel By An American went to Tana French for In the Woods.

2007 Nebula Award Winners

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have presented the Nebula Awards for 2007. Michael Chabon won the best novel award forThe Yiddish Policeman's Union. And J.K. Rowling won the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Memory Keepers Daughter

The novel, The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards has been adapted for television. Lifetime will air the movie on Saturday April 12, 2008 at 9:00 pm (check your local listing). Dermot Mulroney, Gretchen Mol and Emily Watson star.

March BAM Challenge Book Review

I finally finished the book I was reading for the March Book A Month Challenge which had to do with craft. I read Sisters, Ink by Rebeca Seitz because the 4 women in the book were scrapbookers and I am too. It was a good little book about Tandy and her 3 adopted sisters and scrapbooking, family, coming home and love. This is Rebeca's second book, Prints Charming was her first title, and this one will be the first in a series - can't wait to read the next one.

Now I have to find a book to read for the April Book A Month Challenge - something to do with "beauty". I hope you're finding some great books to read for these fun challenges.

2008 Pulitzer Prizes Announced

ARTS:

Fiction: "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
Drama: "August: Osage County," by Tracy Letts
History: "What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848," by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
Biography: "Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father," by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)
Poetry: "Time and Materials," by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) and "Failure," by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
General Nonfiction: "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945," by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)

National Poetry Month

maggie and milly and molly and may

by E. E. Cummings

10

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea

Copyright © 1956, 1984, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust from The Complete Poems: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, Edited by George J. Firmage. Reprinted by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.

BAM Challenge - "Beauty"

This month’s challenge is to read about “beauty”. Maybe you read a book of poetry you find evokes beauty. What about reimaginations of the tale of Sleeping Beauty or Beauty and the Beast? Music and art are routinely noted as beautiful expressions of the soul. Do you find a certain public person beautiful in face and form or soul? Maybe the beauty industry and what constitutes beauty fascinates you. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and so is the meaning of the books you read. Feel free to write a review here on the blog.