Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Summer Read

Marcie Johnson, the conscience of Peppermint Patty sits quietly reading in Rice Park while her other friends like Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, and Schroeder strike playful poses in nearby Landmark Park. It seems fitting that Marcie should be located nearer to the downtown Central Library just across the street. The downtown library is one of our great assets and an easy way to find that great summer read. A few weeks ago I began to contemplate (again) that I should read some of those books that "the experts" say I should. I could call it my book bucket list....and so I hit the fiction section under A's and B's. A for Austen and Pride and Prejudice and B for Buck and The Good Earth. I finished The Good Earth easily and treated myself to The Lovely Bones by Sebold before beginning my first Jane Austen novel. I have to admit I'm struggling a bit and maybe I'll just pop in the movie....I think I can get that at the library too. I'll take the 6 part mini series staring Colin Firth. Sometimes we forget that the library is not really free. We pay for it in our property tax so you pay whether or not you use their services. This week I brought home a selection of magazines too....got to get my money's worth. I picked out an assortment of 2011 issues of The Atlantic, The New Republic, Smithsonian, Bon Appetit and Rolling Stone. I can get tips on baking best-ever brownies while trying to understand an article on democracy and why the world is becoming less free.

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