Friday, July 26, 2019

Friday Felicitations

Summertime is a wonderful time to be in the library.  Teen volunteers are doing wonderful work making the Summer Reading Program a great success and having a bit of fun themselves.  As ever, Leigh is delivering a first-rate set of programs with this year's "A Universe of Stories."  Check out the pics of the Stuffed Animal Sleepover on our webpage.  Who knows what happens in the library at night?

And this time of year also brings the announcements of the finalists for the Man Booker Prize, an event I always look forward to.  Apparently Margaret Atwood is vying with Salman Rushdie with their two newest offerings. A sequel to "Handmaid's Tale" called "The Testaments" for Atwood and "Quichotte" for Rushdie about a traveling salesman who drives across the US.  Are we to think this is "Don" Quichotte?  Don't know.  (Yes, I know, the spelling's not the same.)  Those titles come out in September, but also on the list is one that I've been wanting to read titled, of all things, "My Sister, The Serial Killer" about two siblings in Nigeria.  I've heard great things about it, including the Times saying it's "a bombshell of a book==sharp, explosive and hilarious."  That could do it for me these days.

Buffalo is a great, perfectly scaled  city by the way, with a beautiful public garden designed by Frederick Law Olmstead of Central Park fame.  Lots of gardens and excellent food and a diverse population.  Speaking of gardens, mine beckons to me.  Anyone know what to do to get rid of a woodchuck. Sigh.

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