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PBS’ The Great American Read Card Catalog Reviews- WEEK 6
In Search of the End of the Sidewalk has teamed up with the Berryville, Arkansas library for this summer’s “The Great American Read” with PBS. The goal for Berryville residents is to have one Card Catalog Review for each of the 100 books on PBS’ list. (You can find the list here.) Each Saturday, In Search of the End of the Sidewalk will post a roundup of all of the reviews that came in during the week.
Summer stats:
Week 1– 3 books (97 to go), Week 2– 5 books (92 to go), Week 3- 5 books (87 to go), Week 4– 4 books (83 to go), Week 5- 5 books (78 to go!), Week 6- 5 books (73 to go- we are going to need to pick up the pace, Berryville!)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Purchase The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time here
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Purchase Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland here
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Purchase Pride and Prejudice here
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Purchase Pilgrim’s Progress here
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Purchase Great Expectations here
PBS’ The Great American Read Card Catalog Reviews- WEEK 5
In Search of the End of the Sidewalk has teamed up with the Berryville, Arkansas library for this summer’s “The Great American Read” with PBS. The goal for Berryville residents is to have one Card Catalog Review for each of the 100 books on PBS’ list. (You can find the list here.) Each Saturday, In Search of the End of the Sidewalk will post a roundup of all of the reviews that came in during the week.
Summer stats:
Week 1– 3 books (97 to go), Week 2– 5 books (92 to go), Week 3- 5 books (87 to go), Week 4– 4 books (83 to go), Week 5- 5 books (78 to go!)
1984 by George Orwell
Purchase 1984 here
Catching Fire (Hunger Games #2) by Suzanne Collins
Purchase Catching Fire here
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Purchase The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood here
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Purchase Heart of Darkness here
The Stand by Stephen King
Purchase The Stand here
Card Catalog Review: The Library at the Edge of the World
The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Card Catalog Review: Dear Fahrenheit 451
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian’s Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life by Annie Spence
Card Catalog Review: Baking with Kafka
Card Catalog Review: If I Was Your Girl
Card Catalog Review: The Wonder
#BPLComiccon15
Idaho friends, don’t pass up this chance to check out a great activity in Boise in just over a week. The email below is from the event’s most-magnificent organizer, long-time friend and one of our regular overseas couch-surfers, Josh.
Be there or be square!
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There are only nine days until the 3rd Annual Library Comic Con arrives on Aug. 29th! Excited? Terrified? Wholly indifferent? Too full of competing emotions to have a clear idea of what you’re feeling? Maybe this email will help.
First, I’d like to share a few new things that we’re trying out for this year’s event:
- The Friends of the Library will be selling a specially commissioned commemorative LCC15 poster during the con. The artwork is by local creator Adam Rosenlund http://www.adamjrosenlund.com/ Adam has also recently designed a traffic box wrap for the city, which will be installed either later this year, or next summer. The Friend’s poster will be 13×19, printed on nice paper stock, limited to 250 copies, and sold for $10.
- To really spruce the place up this year, several team members, with the help of our wonderful pages, constructed post-it note artwork, some of which will be involved in a Super Mario themed scavenger hunt. Wonder Woman was completed yesterday, and is currently guarding the Artist’s Alley.
- Local artist Jim Sumii is in the process of constructing a “Pikture Booth” where, for a small donation, he will draw caricatures of passersby. He plans to donate all proceeds to the Friends.
Additionally, we’ll be bringing 14 amazing special guests to Boise, including Nate Powell, Steve Lieber, Emi Lenox, Farel Dalrymple, Joëlle Jones, and many more. You can read about all of our LCC creators here: http://www.boisepubliclibrary.org/classes-events/library-comic-con/2015-library-comic-con-guests/
There will be three food/drink vendors: Fanci Freez, Pie Hole, and St(r)eam Coffee. The 501st Legion will be attending all day (Stormtroopers!), as will the R2D2 Builders group, with at least three, life sized droids. Why hasn’t there previously been any LARPing, you say? What is this LARPing thing, you say? It’s Live Action Role Play, and it’ll be happening this year! There will be a Zombie Walk, (no, I’m not just talking about the staff at the end of the day). Need to know how to make a wand? Don’t worry, Dave Ultis from Citizen Scientific Workshop has you covered!
This is the website for LCC15, which has more information as well as specific times for events. http://www.boisepubliclibrary.org/classes-events/library-comic-con/ And if anyone would like to share this information with friends, family, random people on the street, that neighbor that keeps complaining about your lawn, your child’s harried school teacher, the local fishmonger, or just on your own social media, please feel free. We even have a hashtag to use this year: #BPLComiccon15, because we’re fancy like that!
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