Tambien

Nancy Sims, our new Copyright Librarian, gave a brief overview of her office and services at yesterday's Department of Philosophy meeting. We're glad she's on board!

Visit the Libraries' Copyright page for more information.

Netflix rental this weekend: Shipping News

Twitter entry today from John Quincy Adams:
JQAdams_MHSToday's map post at http://is.gd/2qsII contains links to the long diary entries with a more detailed account of the day's events.

Serendipity: Watched the DVD last night and saw the Adams Twitter entry this evening. Book Club read the book Shipping News some time before June 2004.

I don't "hear" E. Annie Proulx's writing voice from Shipping News in the movie version but I love seeing the images of Newfoundland. I'd forgotten that the delightful and versatile Dame Judith Dench appears in the film. Adams' journal entries are appearing on Twitter because of their brief number of words, the Massachusetts Historical Society thought it was a good way to get out his words. This entry links to a map that includes Newfoundland. John Quincy Adams.

Here's what the page reads today:

Map of daily progress for sailing voyage from Charlestown, Massachusetts to St. Petersburg, Russia.
See the Twitter feed at http://www.twitter.com/JQAdams_MHS
62,162 views - Public Created on Aug 19 - Updated 14 hours ago

Here are the books for the next three months (and December will be the book exchange party)

16th September - at Susan's - The Outlander by Gil Adamson
21st October - at Roberta's - The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz - also in MNCAT under briefer title Long Walk -

18th November
at Anne's - The Shack by William P. Young or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Other Suggestions:

Susan
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Single by Heather Mcelhatton
Run by Ann Patchett

Roberta
The Road From Coorain by Jill Kerr Conway
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria by Justin Pollard

Kirsten
Something by A. J. Jacobs:
--The Year of Living Biblically
--The Know-it-all
--The Guinea
Pig Diaries

Anne
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Anything by Alexander McCall Smith (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and others)
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Another book I want to read! I watched the movie on DVD today and was fascinated by the story, the scenes, the characters and the way the story is constructed. It's so well done; I look forward to reading

Ian McEwan's Atonement

Here's a thank you shout out to a friend who is unfailingly supportive and nonjudgmental! You made my day...

For all of you avid book club blog readers (and lurkers):

August is at Roberta's and we're reading:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society