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For more recommendations, stop by the library display in the fiction collection on the lower level of the library or ask a reference librarian.
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Classic Literature
Does the back-to-school season have you reminiscing about the classic literature that you read back in high school? Why not try to re-read them and see if your perspectives and understanding have changed? Here are a few we recommend:
For more recommendations, stop by the library display in the fiction collection on the lower level of the library or ask a reference librarian.
For more recommendations, stop by the library display in the fiction collection on the lower level of the library or ask a reference librarian.
Oh Captain, My Captain
Click here to read Roger Tagholm's moving editorial about Robin Williams and Literature. Tagholm "looks back at how Robin Williams brought moments of poetry and literature to life for a generation, instilling them in the popular culture."
Several of the books mentioned in the article are available at the Community Library, they are listed below.
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W. H. Auden wrote some of the greatest love poetry of the twentieth century. This book contains ten of his poems about love. They range in mood from the exhilaration of a new love affair, through love's anxieties and fears, to the sorrow that comes with the end of love.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry
A pilot is forced down in the Sahara where he meets a strange little prince from another planet.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it - the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing, untitled poems embracing every realm of experience - was new. The 1855 edition broke new ground in its relaxed style, which prefigured free verse; in its sexual candor; in its images of racial bonding and democratic togetherness; and in the intensity of its affirmation of the sanctity of the physical world.
New film adaptation of 'Les Mis'
No Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012
In the end, the Pulitzer Prize committee could not agree on a winner in the "Fiction" category for 2012. Could this mean that the three nominees for this prestigious literary prize, which recognizes American-themed fiction by American authors, are all equally good? Check them out from Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library and decide for yourself.
- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson - Presents the story of early twentieth-century day laborer Robert Grainer, who endures the harrowing loss of his family while struggling for survival in the American West against a backdrop of radical historical changes.
- Swamplandia! by Karen Russell - Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the smamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting.
- The Pale King by David Foster Wallace - The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.
Literary March Madness
- Nathacha Appanah, The Last Brother
- Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
- Teju Cole, Open City
- Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods
- Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
- Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
- Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
- Alan Hollinghurst, Stranger’s Child
- Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
- Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife
- Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table
- Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
- Donald Ray Pollock, Devil All the Time
- Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
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