Category Archives: libraries

Yippee-Ki-Yay

Posted on April 11, 2019 by

Finally READING the Classic Westerns By Jeff Salter Though I have been a huge fan of Westerns – on TV and at the movies – for my entire life, I somehow never got around to READING hardly any of them… … Continue reading →

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Good Times! (?)

Posted on March 29, 2019 by

This week’s topic: If you could travel to any period of time for research purposes (or shear enjoyment) what time period would you travel to? Oh, no…the dreaded time travel question; it comes up in many interviews or Q and … Continue reading →

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Collecting Old Books

Posted on January 25, 2019 by

Free Week and it caught me by surprise! I often have inspirations on a list for these times, but I seem to have used them up without replenishing them. I have another list of ideas which I have in mind … Continue reading →

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Get Lost:LibriVox/Project Gutenberg/Internet Archives

Posted on August 17, 2018 by

LibriVox is an organization dedicated to finding literary works which have fallen into public domain and making readings of them to share with the world. Volunteers do the recording. Works in the public domain are those whose copyrights (in U.S. … Continue reading →

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Guest:Author Michael Charton

Posted on July 27, 2018 by

Today we have a guest who is quite an interesting fellow. Michael Charton is a man of curiosity and imagination. If we lived next door, I am sure that none of us would get anything done, since Joe-the–Husband and I … Continue reading →

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A Library By Any Other Name…

Posted on July 13, 2018 by

What is a ‘library’? My grandson asked me to read a YA book, the first of a series. It started out not much to my taste, (unlike so many other he has chosen), but it picked up to be interesting … Continue reading →

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Everybody Should Read This Book

Posted on January 18, 2018 by

My Celebrity Spokespersons By Jeff Salter This is another example of a topic I’d originally suggested, but for which I no longer recall whether I had anything particular in mind. Indeed, as I’ve read the offerings of the Resident Foxes … Continue reading →

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