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Speed of Light: Books, art, nature, public libraries and aha moments as experienced by a Lone Star Librarian
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Commentary and book recommendations from a public librarian and book reviewer.
- Added on: Jan 9th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Keddy Ann Outlaw
- Listed in: Books Writing
- Tags: art books creativity Nature public libraries reader's advisory
Recent Posts
Breaking Away, Hiding Away, Running Away: Three Good Reads
I spent much of the week house and pet-sitting for my sister-in-law in the Montgomery County "horse country" north of Houston. Although feeding and playing doorperson to three dogs, two cats and two miniature horses took a fair amount of energy, bein...
Collage Mind
Whatever "Collage Mind" is, right now I have it. I go to my study after breakfast, sit down at my work table and get to work. For every finished composition I find pleasing, there are others which somehow don't have enough life or tension in them; th...
Mr. Horton Foote of Wharton, Texas
Though I've lived but 50 miles from Wharton for many years, today was the first time I made a pilgrimage there. Starting from Houston, Highway 59 whittles down from five lanes to two by the time you get to Wharton, the hometown of treasured playwrig...
Homer\'s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale...by Gwen Cooper
Remember Dewey Readmore, last year's suddenly famous library cat? Librarian Vicki Myron hit the best seller lists with her feline tale, and even Hollywood paid attention. Meryl Streep will be playing Vicki in a movie based on the book.This year cat l...
Bookmarks, Not the Electronic Kind
Enter the word "bookmark" into a search engine and you will get lots of links to the noun and verb as related to computers, meaning: a list of favorite website addresses and the act of saving this list. Well, I'm all for such lists, but what about t...
Baking Cakes in Kigali
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin (Delacorte, 2009) : does the title catch your attention? For me it did, not even though I have to admit I was not familiar with Kigali, which come to find out, is the capitol city of Rwanda (central Africa). I'm...
