The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.Lord Chesterfield at brainyquote.com
Lord Chesterfield
I love collections of quotations very much. On a hot summer day I would much rather browse for quotations on the Internet or read through one of my quotations collections books, much more than say, mowing the grass or washing the car, or doing any kind of housework.
http://brainyquote.com/ is one of my favorite Internet collections. One of the most famous American quotation books can be found in the Reference Section of the library at REF 808.88 BAR. This particular collection is the 17th edition and was published in 2002 Read about John Bartlett, whose first collection of quotations he privately printed in 1855, at Wikipedia John Bartlett There is a searchable 1919 10th edition at Bartlett's Quotations
By the way, Bartelby.com has several other quotations collections as well as many famous and worthwhile books from the past. Check it out; find something you like and get the book from the library because at night when you go to bed it is hard to curl up wuth a computer copy of a great book.
Worldcat
Do you know what the Worldcat link to the right is for? It is a finding tool for specific books, subjects, and authors. It tells us whether our library has a particular item or what libraries nearby might have it or materials related to it.
For example, type in To Kill a Mockingbird and press enter. Look at the column to the left entitled "Refine Your Search." You see that the author is Harper Lee so click on "To Kill a Mockingbird" that has her as an author. This takes yout to the libraries screen which shows that the Carlsbad Public Library has it. If we didn't have it, you would be able to see what libraries have it and you could ask a librarian about the possibility of interlibrary loan.
Explore the page to see what other services Worldcat might provide you. To get back to the "What's Up at the Carlsbad Public Library" blog, keep clicking on the return arrow at the top until you arrive there.
Now pick a subject, title, or person that you are interested in and try Worldcat out on your own
One of the New York TimesSunday Book Review Best 10 Books of the Year:
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Non-Fiction) by Nathaniel Philbrick
This absorbing history of the Plymouth Colony is a model of revisionism. Philbrick impressively recreates the pilgrims' dismal 1620 voyage, bringing to life passengers and crew, and then relates the events of the settlement and its first contacts with the native inhabitants of Massachusetts. Most striking are the parallels he subtly draws with the present, particularly in his account of how Plymouth's leaders, including Miles Standish, rejected diplomatic overtures toward the Indians, successful though they'd been, and instead pursued a "dehumanizing" policy of violent aggression that led to the needless bloodshed of King Philip's War
NY Times Ten Best Books of 2006
From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as author Philbrick reveals, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic. The Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a period of crisis for Native Americans, as disease spread by European fishermen devastated their populations. Initially the two groups maintained a fragile working relationship. But within decades, New England erupted into King Philip's War, a savage conflict that nearly wiped out colonists and natives alike, and forever altered the face of the fledgling colonies and the country that would grow from them. Philbrick has fashioned a fresh portrait of the dawn of American history--dominated right from the start by issues of race, violence, and religion.--From publisher description. (461 p)
Carlsbad Public Library Catalog 973.22 Phil
Another one of the New York TimesSunday Book Review Best 10 Books of the Year:
The Omnivore's Dilemna: A Natural History of Four Meals (Non-fiction) by Michael Pollan
When you can eat just about anything nature has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety," Pollan writes in this supple and probing book. He gracefully navigates within these anxieties as he traces the origins of four meals - from a fast-food dinner to a "hunter-gatherer" feast - and makes us see, with remarkable clarity, exactly how what we eat affects both our bodies and the planet. Pollan is the perfect tour guide: his prose is incisive and alive, and pointed without being tendentious. In an uncommonly good year for American food writing, this is a book that stands out.
NY Times Ten Best Books oof 2006
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Introduction: our national eating disorder -- Industrial: corn. The plant: corn's conquest -- The farm -- The elevator -- The feedlot: making meat -- The processing plant: making complex foods -- The consumer: a republic of fat -- The meal: fast food -- Pastoral: grass. All flesh is grass -- Big organic -- Grass: thirteen ways of looking at a pasture -- The animals: practicing complexity -- Slaughter: in a glass abattoir -- The market: "greetings from the non-barcode people" -- The meal: grass-fed -- Personal: the forest. The forager -- The omnivore's dilemma -- The ethics of eating animals -- Hunting: the meat -- Gathering: the fungi -- The perfect meal.
394.112 POL
My great-niece who graduated from Texas A&M earlier this month with a degree in bio-environmental science and who already knows much about "eating and its effects on people and the environment" has read this book and highly recommends it. It is on my "to-read list."
Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community. Rod Blagojevich
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© Bob Hoff, 2007
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