Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

Ancient Gonzo Widsom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson

I've been a Hunter S. Thompson fan since I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas back in college in 1973. The completely drug-soaked, high speed narration of a trip to Las Vega in search of "the American Dream," was a breakthrough, a new style...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2009 3:56 pm by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, History, interviews, Gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson

Recent Chick Lit Reads

In the past few weeks since my last blog post, I have been on a chick-lit rampage. I have been speed-reading through recent releases like I don't have a hundred other things to do. Laundry piled up, kitchen didn't get cleaned, and packing for...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2009 4:33 pm by KickinLibrarian@evpl

Filed under: humor, reviews, fiction, books, chick lit, London, funny, love, women, friends, Sophie Kinsella, Amy Sohn, Paula Froelich

The Library: An Illustrated History by Stuart A. P. Murray

This very readable and lavishly illustrated book is a survey of libraries, from the earliest gatherings of clay tablets in the library at Nineveh to the present grandeur of the Library of Congress. It is full of the characters of library history as well...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2009 6:01 pm by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, History, books and reading, libraries, pictorial works

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

When I went home a little while back, I saw a copy of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in my little sister's room. Feeling a bit nostalgic, I went home and started reading the battered copy on my bookshelf. I don't know how many times I have read this...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2009 9:04 am by KickinLibrarian@evpl

Filed under: reviews, fiction, books, historical fiction, teens, families, Mothers & Daughters, poor, World War I -- Fiction, growing up, love

Lost Boy by Brent W. Jeffs

Anyone familiar with John Krakauer's book Under the Banner of Heaven will be familiar with the polygamous, Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS). In that book Krakauer recounts how religious polygamy was often used as a cover for pedophilia...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2009 5:08 pm by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, families, relationships, Brent Jeffs, polygamy, Warren Jeffs, abuse, Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, cults

The Ripest Moments by Norbert Krapf

The Ripest Moments is a simple pleasure to read. While reading this memoir of growing up in the 40s and 50s in Jasper and rural Dubois County, Indiana, I found myself reminded over and over again of my own childhood in northern Indiana, and the cousins...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2009 2:00 pm by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: nonfiction, reviews, books, Food, Agriculture, memoir, farming, small town, Indiana, Framilies, Norbert Krapf

Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK?: A Human Rights Perspective

While I find it appalling on so many levels that we even need a such a book as this in the 21st Century US, I'm glad that I had the chance to read this. Torture is divided into two sections, the first being about international torture - it's history...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2009 4:41 pm by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, terrorism, war, human rights, torture

Commencement

It is sometimes hard to believe that I graduated from USI over five years ago. That may seem like no time at all for some people, but sometimes I still feel like I am 21 again. Sometimes I forget that I am a "grown-up" with a "grown-up"...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2009 12:47 pm by KickinLibrarian@evpl

Filed under: reviews, fiction, books, recommended, funny, growing up, love, friends, college students, college

Love As Always, Kurt: Vonnegut As I Knew Him, by Loree Rackstraw

In September of 1965 Lorree Rackstraw was a graduate student in her second year at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, apprehensive about her new teacher, a relatively unknown writer named Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut had published just three books: The Sirens...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2009 1:21 am by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, World War II, families, biography, memoir, old man, WWII, Word War II -- fiction, books and reading, love, friends, relationships, Loree Rackstraw, Kurt Vonnegut, writers

"The Angel's Game" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If you read and enjoyed Ruiz's international bestseller " Shadow of the Wind ," you should probably read his newest (and related) novel " The Angel's Game ." This is the second in a series of novels that will all link back...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2009 11:13 pm by MediaPhile@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, gothic fiction, ruiz, shadow of the wind

The Wedding Girl

Are you a fan of the Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella? If so, let me introduce you to Kinsella's alter ego, Madeleine Wickham. Both personas write about English women who have found themselves in a predicament. Whether it be money (Shopaholic...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2009 9:54 am by KickinLibrarian@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, chick lit, families, Mothers & Daughters, English, love, family secrets

Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story

I can't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated with the story of America's Camelot. My bookshelves are lined with books about the Kennedys- biographies, essays, coffee table books, even old newspaper articles my grandma has given me. What...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 3:01 pm by KickinLibrarian@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, biography, recommended

Who Is Mark Twain? by Mark Twain

When he died in 1910, Samuel Langhorne Clemens - better known by the nom de plume Mark Twain - left behind the largest trove of literary papers of any nineteenth-century American author. Included were letters diaries, travelogues, a huge autobiography...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 2:59 pm by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: humor, reviews, books, posthumous publications, Mark Twain

The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World

Paul Collins writes in a convivial and breezy style, and is the kind of natural storyteller who brings history to life. Nevertheless, in The Book of William , his scholarship and authority are undeniable, and make this book an important entry point for...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 4:34 pm by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, Shakespeare, History, books and reading, First Folio, bibliography

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

I am a bit of a Jane Austen fan. Sometimes I just need to pull Pride and Prejudice off my shelf and curl up with Mr. Darcy. It seems that I am not the only person with a fondness for Jane Austen and her fabulous stories. In the past few years there has...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2009 11:07 am by KickinLibrarian@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, chick lit, sequels, jane austen, Pride and Prejudice, funny, women

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