Staff Picks

8 Places I like to read or listen to a book!

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1.  Public parks are great for reading. The Waterfront Park near our library has benches, a view of the river and a statue, or, The Common at the top of the hill in Gardiner, are great little places to escape with a book. I feel parks have plenty of open places to spread out a blanket in the shade. You can sit back and feel like you are playing like a child, again.   2.  Any comfortable chair cries out for a book. I picture an old high wing chair that you can feel the softness of the upholstery, one …

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New Books At The Library

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FICTION: And the mountains echoed by Khaled Hosseini.  Here is a multi-generational family saga that follows a close-knit but oft-separated Afghan family through love, wars, and losses more painful than death. The apple orchard by Susan Wiggs.  When a woman inherits half a hundred-acre apple orchard to be shared with a half-sister she never knew she had, she discovers the pleasures of family and love. Best kept secret by Jeffrey Archer.  In the third installment of this family saga, the focus shifts to a new generation – Sebastian, the son of Harry and Emma Clifton. The best of us by …

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Maine Movie Marathon!

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  Ah, summer in Maine!  For those who can’t experience it in person, there is the charm of a movie set in Maine during the summer.  Two you may not have seen are The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold (2008), a comedy action adventure starring artist William Wegman’s Weimaraner dogs and set in the Rangeley area and the Disney film Summer Magic (1963) starring Haley Mills and Dorothy Maguire.     Remember A Summer Place (1959) with Troy Donahue, Sandra Dee, and Dorothy McGuire set at a Maine resort? The remake of The Parent Trap (1998) with Lindsay Lohan set …

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Cult Films in the Library

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In discussing cult films, the website http://www.filmsite.org/cultfilms.htmldescribes them this way: “Cult Films have limited but very special appeal. Cult films are usually strange, quirky, offbeat, eccentric, oddball, or surreal, with outrageous, weird, unique and cartoony characters or plots, and garish sets. They are often considered controversial because they step outside standard narrative and technical conventions. They can be very stylized, and they are often flawed or unusual in some striking way.” The book, Cult Movies, by Danny Peary is devoted to discussing the weird, wonderful, and wacky movies that seem to demand that we watch them over and over. How …

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What are you reading?

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I would highly recommend Stephen King’s 11/22/63.  It is the story of time traveling and what may have happened if we were able to stop Lee Harvey Oswald before he assassinated JFK.  Would there be a “butterfly” effect” that would change history so dramatically, that things could be even worse?  Very interesting premise! Anne Davis, Library Director     I just finished reading The Light Between Oceans: a Novel by M. L. Stedman. The setting is a remote lighthouse off the coast of Western Australia.  Poor choices are made concerning a rescued infant which bring heartbreak to two families.  The …

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Librarians, Avert Your Eyes…. Recycled Book Crafts!!!!!

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There is a secret lurking deep in the crafting blogs and Pinterest boards of this internet, one that will send shivers up the spine of any reputable librarian……. books are being used as a medium for art!!!! For those librarians and book lovers who aren’t made of stronger stuff, we suggest you avert your eyes for the remainder of this post. There are wreaths: Jones Design Company Mudpies and Marigolds Wall Art: Tip Junkie  Mod Podge Art: How To Nest For Less And, they’ve even been used in carpentry projects: Dornob What is the world coming to??! However much we would like …

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