Darien Library

  1. Erin Shea, the head of adult programming at the Darien Library, recently finished reading “Gone Girl” and said it was “a thrilling summer read for both men and women.”

    “You’ll end up finishing this 400-page book in three days because the twists and turns are so delightfully demented,” she said.

    Shea also recommends “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed. “It’s a great summer read about hiking, relationships, family, mourning and ultimately figuring things out.”

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    What Will Darien Read This Summer? | The Darien Daily Voice (formerly The Daily Darien)

    EVERYONE! I continue to Not Shut Up about Wild.

  2. coverspy: The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich (F, 20s, long hair in a braid, jean jacket, black A-line skirt, L train) http://bit.ly/OwaIYc Twenty bucks says she just finished Wild.

    coverspy:

    The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich (F, 20s, long hair in a braid, jean jacket, black A-line skirt, L train) http://bit.ly/OwaIYc

    Twenty bucks says she just finished Wild.

  3. Agnostic, Maybe: How Oprah Might Help Out Libraries When It Comes To eBooks (Maybe) →

    However, it was the discovery of Wild’s publisher that brought up a much more pertinent question in this whole deal as it relates to libraries: what happens when Oprah picks a book that is from one of the Big Six publishers but is not from Random House or HarperCollins? In the case of a book choice from Hachette, MacMillan, Penguin, or Simon & Schuster (all of the publishers that do not allow library eBook lending), what happens to libraries and the digital edition? Without a doubt, these publishers would love to get their book onto the Book Club 2.0 list. It’s a powerful Oprah-style publicity ride for their author and the book, capable of pushing books up the sales list as well as cementing an author onto the scene. It’s a prize to be won, for certain, since the rewards are quite lavish. It’s a no-brainer to say that the Oprah special digital edition will not be available for libraries if it is one of the four publishers mentioned.

    When it comes to pass (and I will bet dollars to donuts that it will) that Oprah picks a book from a publisher that won’t allow library eBook lending, what will we do? We will have an excellent teachable moment and we can’t squander it.

    Folks, Oprah could solve this whole library eBook lending mess! Why didn’t we think of this?!

    We have two digital copies currently checked out.

    (Source: twitter.com)

  4. It also speaks to the interpretive power of journals over time; she relied upon hers to create this memoir, decades after the trip. This speaks to me too because found journals are a centerpiece of my novel. Appreciating the level of Strayed’s detail here, brought up from notes and memory so many years later, requires a reader to believe in the strength of a person’s need to document and examine their lives as they’re living it. It might be a difficult leap for someone who has trouble imagining doing this. But not for me. (via What I’m Reading Today: WILD, by Cheryl Strayed | Nichole Bernier) Anyone who has talked to me this month knows I won’t shut up about Cheryl Strayed’s memoir. Monday night I was drinking wine and going on and on about it again even though only one other person at the gathering had read it too. So I was overjoyed to read what Nichole Bernier had to say about the book and the parallels she saw between Wild and The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.

    It also speaks to the interpretive power of journals over time; she relied upon hers to create this memoir, decades after the trip. This speaks to me too because found journals are a centerpiece of my novel. Appreciating the level of Strayed’s detail here, brought up from notes and memory so many years later, requires a reader to believe in the strength of a person’s need to document and examine their lives as they’re living it. It might be a difficult leap for someone who has trouble imagining doing this. But not for me. (via What I’m Reading Today: WILD, by Cheryl Strayed | Nichole Bernier)

    Anyone who has talked to me this month knows I won’t shut up about Cheryl Strayed’s memoir. Monday night I was drinking wine and going on and on about it again even though only one other person at the gathering had read it too. So I was overjoyed to read what Nichole Bernier had to say about the book and the parallels she saw between Wild and The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.