Anonymous asked: Is 50 Shades of Grey still going to be able to be checked out?
50 Shades of Grey is indeed able to be checked out. Our copies are currently checked out, but if you would like to read a copy, you can stop or call in and reserve it at any time.
Summer Reading Program Kicks Off!
All of our Summer Reading Programs start on May 31st, with a special Registration and Cookie Decorating Party, from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm!
Details below!
We will be CLOSED on Monday, May 28th, for Memorial Day.
We will reopen as normal on Tuesday, May 29th.
Summer Hours also start on May 29th.
But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through,” he’d said implacably. “It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.
– Sarra Manning, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me (via prettybooks) Via teaching literacy.Summer Reading Programs 2012
Yes, you read that correctly. This year’s Summer Reading Program, in addition to the usual Children and Teens sections, will have two new components!
Our Baby & Toddler Summer Reading Program was created to encourage early literacy in children from infancy to age three. Also new this year is our Adult Summer Reading Program, to encourage adults to continue reading as well.
So no matter how old (or young!) you are, we’ve got a place and (fantastic!) prizes for you this summer at SPL! Join us to jump start the summer and sign up for one of our Summer Reading Programs starting May 31st!
Don’t miss our Summer Reading Program Kick-off Party on May 31st, from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm, to register and decorate delicious cookies!
(Source: spencerlibrary.com)
Can you name the book titles from their plot haikus?
- Russian murderer / psychological thriller / haunted by the deed
- Child war prodigy / chosen to defeat Buggers / mournful xenocide
- Lawyer and father / prejudice in the courthouse / hero of Maycomb
- Fogey is haunted / his bitterness shown to him / happy holidays
- Pilgrim is unstuck / millions die in conflict / bird says, ‘Poo tee weet?
- O my brothers, droogs / brainwashed, Beethoven ruined / ultraviolence
- Man makes a monster / family is terrorized / pressured to make wife
- Stuck in asylum / Big Nurse versus a cowboy / who’s bull goose loony?
- Forever youthful / ages vicariously / tries hedonism
- Delusional man / partner rides on a donkey / terrorist windmills
- Flunked out of his school / wandering around New York / tired of phonies
- Crashed on an island / A boyish power struggle / Who has the conch shell?
- Laboratory babes / Soma calms fears after Ford / Malthusian drills
- Victim of malice / finds an enormous treasure / exacts cold revenge
- Bomber dislikes war / not quite jaundiced so no luck / chocolate cotton
- Preacher in pursuit / son lost in Johannesburg / apartheid era
- Leaves abusive aunt / governess in a manor / wife in the attic?
- Revolt: two legs bad / Success: enact five year plan / Conclude: two legs good?
Take the Book Plot Haiku quiz: http://www.sporcle.com/games/Novy/haiku_books
Literature renews language, rescuing it from the shallow grave of day-to-day talk.
– John Carey, “What Good Are The Arts?” (via v-ulgate) Via teaching literacy.…you hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too.” I glanced up at her. “And you hold them in your joints and your organs and wear them on your skin. You carry your past with you even if you don’t remember any of it.
– My Name Is Memory by Ann Brashares (via sincerelynacia) Via teaching literacy.
Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.
– Ray Bradbury (via roscoe-)(Source: quote-book)
Via teaching literacy.But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we’ll not fail.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (via misswallflower) Via teaching literacy.
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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