Jan 5, 2018 | Librarian's blog
My wife and I have enjoyed spending time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a few occasions. For us it held treasures we could discover every time we returned. Not that we went all that often. After all, it is in New York City, which isn’t just right around...
Jan 3, 2018 | Librarian's blog
How do you move the mountain called Hollywood? The Weinstein scandals must surely result in some kind of change, shouldn’t it? But, there’s more to the story in filmland than sexual assault. There’s repression of other different kinds. Here is a...
Dec 29, 2017 | Librarian's blog
Another one bites the dust. The headline on the lead story in today’s business section of The New York Times says it all: “Bookstore Chain Succumbs, As E-Commerce Devours Retailing.” The story by David Streitfeld goes into great detail about the...
Dec 27, 2017 | Librarian's blog
Over the Christmas weekend I finished reading “Artemis” by Andy Weir. I thought it would be a good read because I had read Weir’s first novel, called “The Martian.” Maybe you remember either the book or the movie made from it by the same...
Dec 22, 2017 | Librarian's blog
he year is almost at an end, and it’s time to do some tallying up. Specifically, it’s time to see what were the most popular books of 2017. Various people do a count of this type, and few seem to agree. So, let’s just dive in and look at what Amazon...
