The library Reading Group will meet tomorrow evening, Wednesday 25th January at 7pm, to discuss The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman.
Come along for lively discussion with fellow book lovers - we'll even make you a cup of tea!
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Author of the Month for January - Carol Shields
We start 2012 with American-born Canadian author Carol Shields. Born in Oak Park Illinois, it was during a college exchange visit to Scotland that Shields met her husband-to-be, Canadian engineering student, Donald Hugh Shields. The couple married in 1957 and moved to Canada
Finding time to continue her writing in the midst of raising her family, Shields once described herself as ''the mother who typed.'', she often wrote about the lives of women and their experience of the domestic, everyday realities which make up a life.
She is perhaps best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada. There is an Orkney connection within the novel as one of the characters returns to his birthplace in Orkney from Canada after his wife leaves him.
Finding time to continue her writing in the midst of raising her family, Shields once described herself as ''the mother who typed.'', she often wrote about the lives of women and their experience of the domestic, everyday realities which make up a life.
She is perhaps best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada. There is an Orkney connection within the novel as one of the characters returns to his birthplace in Orkney from Canada after his wife leaves him.
Sadly Carol Shields died in 2003, she had written 10 novels, 3 collections of stories and 3 volumes of poetry. Her daughter Anne Giardini is also a writer. Giardini has contributed to the National Post as a columnist, and has published two novels, The Sad Truth About Happiness and Advice for Italian Boys.
We also have The Sad Truth About Happiness in stock if you want to see if/how Giardini's writing has been influenced by her mother's literary legacy.
Saturday, 7 January 2012
Happy New Year!
Well that's us back. The last of the tinsel is packed away in the attic and GMB has had to give up his santa hat. The Christmas books are back in reserve and we are all set for another year of books, blogging and maybe the odd biscuit.
For those of you who, like us, may have indulged in rather too many biscuits and other festive fayre over the holidays we have set up a New Year, New You! display. With lots of books on diet, exercise and relaxation, there will be no excuse for breaking those New Year's Resolutions. Judging by the weather at the moment we may shortly be able to get our exercise by swimming to work.
Quick pass the biscuits!
For those of you who, like us, may have indulged in rather too many biscuits and other festive fayre over the holidays we have set up a New Year, New You! display. With lots of books on diet, exercise and relaxation, there will be no excuse for breaking those New Year's Resolutions. Judging by the weather at the moment we may shortly be able to get our exercise by swimming to work.
Quick pass the biscuits!
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