In case you hadn’t noticed yet, one of the many things we do here at the library is suggest good books to read. It is laws two and three of the 5 laws of library science (okay, you probably knew that we suggest good books, but did you know we have laws?): Every book its reader and [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘books’
October 20, 2009
Get Together and Read
You might not know it, but October is National Reading Group Month. Strangely enough, people all over the country like to get together and discuss the books they have read. Haven’t you ever finished a great book and wished that you could talk to someone about it? With the Internet available 24/7, it’s now easier to go to a [...]
September 24, 2009
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Book Club
On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. in the Music Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main Library (Oakland), we begin a program about which we are very excited, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Book Club.
The first book to be discussed is Vivaldi’s Virgins: A Novel (paperback/large print) by Barbara Quick. This intriguing historical [...]
March 26, 2009
Sandal season is coming!
A couple of warmer days and a shopping trip with a friend have brought into my life a new, glorious pair of robin’s egg blue, strappy, high-heeled sandals. They’re patent leather, so they’re shiny, and they have a bit of a platform heel made of a cork-like material that has silver sparklies in it. I [...]
March 9, 2009
books beyond the ages
Every once in a while, I get to work at the desk in our amazing Teen Department here at the Main library. While I enjoy the energy of our teen customers and the creative atmosphere of the department, especially their stacks murals
the best part is that I always leave with a stack of books to [...]
December 2, 2008
free lecture on grief
This is my family’s first holiday season without my grandfather, and we’re all feeling his absence. People have different ways of dealing with the loss of someone close, and sometimes we may ask ourselves, ‘How long will I feel this way?’ or ‘Is this normal?’ Grief is a natural response to death, as we work [...]
November 11, 2008
Love letters?
Or emails? Or notes? Or text messages?
I recently finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, and rediscovered how much fun it can be to read epistolary novels. You know, the ones that tell the story through letters or other writings. (I had to look it up [...]
July 23, 2008
Gushing.
I love you. Yes. You. The patrons and customers of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. You see, this is how I get when I finish a book that I love, particularly when I learned about it from a customer. All of you get credit for it, even though it was only one person who came [...]
June 5, 2008
Calling all parents!
Parenting is probably one of the most wonderful and scary things anyone can experience. From deciding to have children, to making or getting them, to feeding them, to raising them, and uh, getting rid of them. It’s like a big science experiment.
Well, it doesn’t have to be entirely random, since as you probably know, there [...]
