Archive for the 'Reader's Advisory' Category

Starting at midnight on Monday, February 1, “Go for the Gold!” our Winter Reading Program begins!  Children is Kindergarten and up can log on to our website, www.seekonkpl.org,  click the highlighted “Register Now” line to sign up and track your reading progress.  We’re following the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, too, so you can watch the latest Olympic [...]

I highly recommend the recent DVD  release  Be Kind Rewind (2008) for any fan of box office blockbuster movies. This comedy starring Jack Black, Mos Def, and Danny Glover tells the story of two friends working at the video store who have to recreate movies on demand after a freak accident erases every video tape [...]

Silks is a well written page turner in the true Dick Francis tradition.
This novel doesn’t suffer at all from the “co-author” curse that many others have succumbed to.
Engaging characters, some you’ll love, some you’ll love to hate.
As always, steeplechase jockeys figure prominently in this fast-paced, well thought-out and executed novel.
The typical dry British wit [...]

I am always on the lookout for a light, humorous novel. I discovered first time novelist Richard Murphy. I almost never read male authors. I just seem to like female authors better. I favor “Chic Lit” which is almost always written by woman authors. But I must admit that I judged a book by its [...]

I do the selection of DVD’s so sometimes I am at a loss for new fiction titles to read.   Of course I use the NYTimes and other lists to help me.   I am reading Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World now.   I wouldn’t describe it as heavy reading but I wanted something more [...]

I am facing a time we all dread, replacing appliances. So was I delighted to find out that up to date Consumer Reports are in the Gale databases. They are available through our website 24/7 so when I can’t sleep, I can be comparing stove tops.   From our homepage, click Articles and Databases. Then [...]

What a wonderful weekend I had. I finished the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Junot Diaz, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao. I listened to part of it, while I worked on my art. I finished by reading the rest before I went to sleep last night. At first, I was taken back by [...]

On  July 14 we’ll be hosting our first ever online book discussion.  Over the course of a month we’ll be discussing  Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos.
The discussion will be hosted on  a blog, similar to this one :>, but participants will be able to post comments and comment on other readers’ comments. [...]

Visit our Cabin Fever display to choose from our selection of the American Film Institute’s  Top 100 Passions movies for the weekend.
Selections include:
To Catch a Thief
West Side Story
Vertigo
The Graduate
Roxanne
and more!

Everyone else does a “best of” list so why not me? Here’s my personal list of best finds, old and new,   I’ve stumbled upon in the library this year:
Best Non-Fiction-
A Trip to the Beach by Melinda Blanchard
Gave perspective on the fantasy of just up and moving to the Islands.

Best Chick Lit-
The Sleeping Beauty Proposal [...]