by Peabody Institute Library | Oct 10, 2011 | Fiction
Reviewed by Kim Publisher’s Description: “Failed academic Frank Nichols and his not-quite wife Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family’s old estate-the Savoyard Plantation-and...
by Peabody Institute Library | Oct 6, 2011 | Book Awards, The Literary World
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in literature. From the Huffington Post: Tomas Tranströmer is a poet who, according to Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, writes about “death, history, memory and nature. A...
by Peabody Institute Library | Sep 29, 2011 | Books to Movies
[youtube=”http://youtu.be/K7Rqrts4jPM”] Publisher’s Summary: “Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer...
by Peabody Institute Library | Sep 21, 2011 | The Literary World
Intricate paper sculptures have been mysteriously turning up at bookish locations around Scotland, including the one to the left (entitled “Poetree”). With each, a note that begins “A gift in support of libraries, books, words, ideas…..”...
by Peabody Institute Library | Sep 19, 2011 | The Literary World
Watching last night’s Emmy Awards, this librarian had her heart set on hearing Timothy Olyphant’s name called when the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series was handed out. It didn’t happen (but it will, one day). But my disappointment...