Here's a great Pinterest from Plano Public Library in Texas of all the book-to-film adaptations this year and the ones to look forward to next year! Have a wonderful holiday and New Year from the Goodwin Library!
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Book Group, Tuesdays with Tea - 12/17 meeting 6PM
http://www.looksandbooks.com/2013/07/22/love-dishonor-marry-die-cherish-perish/
The Goodwin Library's book group Tuesdays with Tea is meeting December 17th at 6:00 PM. This month we are reading Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff. It's a short book this month and there are still copies available for checkout, so there is still time to read it before the meeting. Bring your thoughts and questions to share over a warm cup of tea!
Friday, November 29, 2013
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
December Book Club Meeting - Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish - 12/17 6PM
The December Book Club meeting will be held Tuesday, December 17th at 6 PM. Everyone is busy this time of year, so our selection is a very brief read, just 70 or so pages. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish is a brilliant work written in verse and the last novel from the late David Rakoff. It should spark some interesting discussions and the meeting should be a nice break from the holiday business.
Through his books and his radio essays for NPR's This American Life, David Rakoff has built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. Written with humor, sympathy, and tenderness, this intricately woven novel proves him to be the master of an altogether different art form.
LOVE, DISHONOR, MARRY, DIE, CHERISH, PERISH leaps cities and decades as Rakoff sings the song of an America whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal.
The characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A daughter of Irish slaughterhouse workers in early-twentieth-century Chicago faces a desperate choice; a hobo offers an unexpected refuge on the rails during the Great Depression; a vivacious aunt provides her clever nephew a path out of the crushed dream of postwar Southern California; an office girl endures the casually vicious sexism of 1950s Manhattan; the young man from Southern California revels in the electrifying sexual and artistic openness of 1960s San Francisco, then later tends to dying friends and lovers as the AIDS pandemic devastates the community he cherishes; a love triangle reveals the empty materialism of the Reagan years; a marriage crumbles under the distinction between self-actualization and humanity; as the new century opens, a man who has lost his way finds a measure of peace in a photograph he discovers in an old box—an image of pure and simple joy that unites the themes of this brilliantly conceived work.
Rakoff's insistence on beauty and the necessity of kindness in a selfish world raises the novel far above mere satire. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent," a word that perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.
LOVE, DISHONOR, MARRY, DIE, CHERISH, PERISH leaps cities and decades as Rakoff sings the song of an America whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal.
The characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A daughter of Irish slaughterhouse workers in early-twentieth-century Chicago faces a desperate choice; a hobo offers an unexpected refuge on the rails during the Great Depression; a vivacious aunt provides her clever nephew a path out of the crushed dream of postwar Southern California; an office girl endures the casually vicious sexism of 1950s Manhattan; the young man from Southern California revels in the electrifying sexual and artistic openness of 1960s San Francisco, then later tends to dying friends and lovers as the AIDS pandemic devastates the community he cherishes; a love triangle reveals the empty materialism of the Reagan years; a marriage crumbles under the distinction between self-actualization and humanity; as the new century opens, a man who has lost his way finds a measure of peace in a photograph he discovers in an old box—an image of pure and simple joy that unites the themes of this brilliantly conceived work.
Rakoff's insistence on beauty and the necessity of kindness in a selfish world raises the novel far above mere satire. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent," a word that perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Carson McCullers: In Her Own Words
Tomorrow the Book Club is meeting at 6 PM on our new night to discuss Carson McCuller's classic debut novel "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter". Check out this article to here some more about McCuller's life and thoughts from her unfinished autobiography.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Films that Were Better Than the Book
Is the movie ever better than the book it was based on. This list complies ten films that it thinks surpassed the source material. What do you think?
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
November Book Club Meeting - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - 11/19 6 PM
The Book Club will be holding their November meeting Tuesday, November 19th at 6 PM. Because of the library's new hours, all Book Club meetings will now be held on Tuesday nights. Remember, the library's new hours go into effect on November 4th. Copies of Carson McCullers' classic are available now at the library!
With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (and loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music. Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated -- and, through Mick Kelly, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.
Richard Wright praised Carson McCullers for her ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." She writes "with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming," said the NEW YORK TIMES. McCullers became an overnight literary sensation, but her novel has endured, just as timely and powerful today as when it was first published. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, endearing best.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Thursday, September 26, 2013
The Goodwin Library Hours are Changing in November
To provide more consistent, convenient hours for the Farmington community, the Goodwin Library will be changing its hours starting November 4th. This will allow the library to be open more hours, including some morning hours. Starting November 4th, the new library hours will be:
Monday 10-5
Tuesday 2-8
Wednesday 10-5
Thursday 2-8
Friday 10-5
Saturday 10-2
Because of the new hours, the meeting days will be changing for the Goodwin Library Programs. In October, the Book Club will meet as scheduled on Wednesday, October 16th. Once the new hours go into effect in November, the Book Club will move to the third Tuesday of the month at the same time, 6:00 PM. The November Book Club meeting will be Tuesday, November 19th.
I'm looking forward to our discussion of the Alchemist next month! Come pick up a copy at the library if you haven't had a chance yet.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
October Book Club Meeting - The Alchemist - 10/28 6 PM
For our October Book Club meeting, we will be reading Paulo Coelho’s wonderful “The Alchemist”. The meeting will be Wednesday, October 16th, at 6 PM. Copies are available at the desk for Goodwin Library card holders and anyone is willing to attend the meeting regardless of whether they are a Farmington resident or not.
“My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.” Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.”
The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.
The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life’s path, and, above all, following our dreams.
Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho’s charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
September Book Club Meeting
Next Wednesday we will be meeting at 6 PM to discuss John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars". It's a wonderful book and it sounds like many of you are enjoying it. For our September meeting, we will be celebrating Banned Book Week and reading the frequently banned and challenged "The Catcher in the Rye". Whether you are revisiting the novel or being introduced to it for the first time, J.D.Salinger's classic should give us plenty to talk about.
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.
The September meeting will be held Wednesday, September 18th at 6 PM.
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