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FOL past events
An Evening With Sports Expert George Vecsey
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
New York Times columnist, and Port resident George Vecsey will join host Randy Cohen to discuss his career and his favorite person, place and thing. The interview will appear on a future installment of Cohen's podcast Person Place Thing. Guitarist Bennett Harris will provide musical interludes throughout the interview. After the interview, stick around to test your sport smarts. Vecsey will quiz the audience in a fun, informal trivia session, and separate the fans from the superfans! Made possible by the Friends of the Library.
FOL 50th Anniversary Weekend
Friday, October 21 - October 23, 2016
In 2016, the Friends of the Library (FOL) is celebrating fifty years of service to the Port Washington Public Library. The year-long Golden Anniversary celebration culminates in a special festive weekend from Friday, October 21 through Sunday, October 23. Please join the FOL at these events in the Library's Lapham Meeting Room:
Circle of Friends discussion
Friday, October 21 at 12:10 p.m.
Discuss Maeve Binchy's classic novel at this special edition of the Sandwiched In series. Copies available at the Information Desk.
Silver City Bound concert
Friday, October 21 at 7:30 p.m.
This New York City band is "Americana at its best" according to the Huffington Post. Led by accordionist/keyboardist Sam Reider and guitarist Justin Poindexter, Silver City Bound promotes cross-cultural collaboration and dialogue through American roots music. In 2014 the band was chosen by the U.S. State Department to tour China, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam as cultural ambassadors and made a similar tour in 2016 of Azerbaijan and Turkey, performing for thousands of young people and collaborating on a benefit concert for refugees. This concert is appropriate for adults, teens and families with school-age children. Refreshments will be served.
Paperback Swap
Saturday, October 22 from 1 to 4 p.m.
Return of the popular event with books available for all ages. Hundreds of patrons swap thousands of gently used paperbacks at this community-friendly gathering.
NYT Book Review Editor Pamela Paul
Sunday, October 23 at 2 p.m.
The FOL's 50th Anniversary Distinguished Speaker will be Pamela Paul, Editor of The New York Times Book Review. Paul is also an author, TV commentator, Port native and Schreiber graduate! She has written four non-fiction books and will publish her fifth, My Life with Bob, in 2017. "Bob" (Book of Books) is her annotated journal about the books she has read since she was 17.
Paul has been a contributor to Time magazine and a columnist for Worth, The Economist and The New York Times Styles section. A graduate of Brown University, Paul began her writing career as a London and New York-based correspondent for The Economist, where for four years she wrote a monthly column on world arts trends. Paul has been a guest on Oprah, Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Early Show, and Politically Incorrect, and has made regular appearances on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. She also speaks frequently on National Public Radio.
Special refreshments will be served.
Visit the Reading Room throughout October for a special display of FOL photos and memorabilia.
FOL Anniversary Receptions at wit & whim
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Please join the Friends at two special in-store receptions at Port's philanthropic gift store, wit & whim, on Thursday Oct. 6 from Noon – 2 pm and 6 – 8 pm. Refreshments will be served and those who choose to make a purchase and spend $75 will receive a special gift. During the entire month of October, wit & whim (6 Carlton Ave.) will donate profits to the FOL in honor of our 50th Anniversary.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Michael Gross
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Meet Michael Gross, reading from and discussing his new non-fiction book, Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers. In this rollicking account of fashion photography's golden age, the New York Times bestselling author of Model and House of Outrageous Fortune brings to life the wild genius, ego, passion, and antics of the men (and a few women) behind the camera. Before Instagram was an art form, fashion photographers and the models they made famous were pop culture royalty. Focus probes the lives, hang-ups, and artistic triumphs of more than a dozen of fashion photography's greatest visionaries: Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Melvin Sokolsky, Bert Stern, David Bailey, Bill King, Deborah Turbeville, Helmut Newton, Gilles Bensimon, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, Corinne Day, Bob and Terry Richardson, and more. Books will be available for purchase and signing. This event is part of the FOL's Meet the Author Series, which in the past two years has featured such luminaries as Colm Toibin, Roger Rosenblatt, Nelson DeMille, Susan Isaacs, Hilma Wolitzer, Gail Sheehy, Eric Fischl, George Vecsey, and Dr. Sandeep Jauhar.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Lauren Belfer
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
The New York Times-bestselling author of A Fierce Radiance and City of Light returns with a new powerful and passionate novel—inspired by historical events—about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both their lives. The FOL welcomes author Lauren Belfer discussing her new historical novel After the Fire. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Daniel Paisner
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Port resident and prolific author, ghostwriter and novelist Daniel Paisner discusses his new book, A Single Happened Thing. This novel about neurosis, intimacy, and balancing familial needs while juggling two careers and the demands of modern life is also a charming and memorable parable about losing your mind and finding yourself in the age of anxiety. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Rebecca Schiff
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
The Friends of the Library presents first-time author Rebecca Schiff, who grew up in Port, who has written an acclaimed book of short stories, The Bed Moved (Knopf). Books will be available for purchase and signing.
47th Annual Richard D. Whittemore Book & Author Luncheon
Friday, May 13, 2016
The Friends of the Library is proud to announce the two outstanding authors who will be featured at its signature Book & Author Luncheon: Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Schiff will speak about her best-selling nonfiction book The Witches: Salem 1692 along with Garth Risk Hallberg discussing his highly acclaimed debut novel, City on Fire. Port's own best-selling novelist Susan Isaacs returns as program moderator. The Luncheon will be held Friday, May 13 at the North Hills Country Club in Manhasset. The FOL welcomes individual and corporate Luncheon sponsors beginning at $250. To learn about the benefits of sponsorship – which includes bypassing first-come first-served ticketing to this sellout event – please contact FOL members Margaret DeSiervo (email@example.com, 883-2722) or Nancy Wright (firstname.lastname@example.com, 883-8418).
Reservation brochures are now in the library. You may also print out the brochure here, fill it out, and mail it back. Tickets are $75.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Michael Gross
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Meet Michael Gross, reading from and discussing House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address.More than just an apartment building, 15CPW represents a massive paradigm shift in the lifestyle of New York's rich and famous—and is a bellwether of the city's changing social and financial landscape. With its dazzling detail, House of Outrageous Fortune is a sweeping history of those changes, and it pulls open wide the gilded walls of Fifteen to reveal the private lives of that .01 percent.Books will be available for purchase and signing. This event is part of the FOL's Meet the Author Series, which in the past two years has featured such luminaries Colm Toibin, Roger Rosenblatt, Nelson DeMille, Susan Isaacs, Hilma Wolitzer, Gail Sheehy, Eric Fischl, George Vecsey, and Dr. Sandeep Jauhar.
Leo Ullman: The Story of a Hidden Child and His Rescuers in WWII
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Leo S. Ullman, a Port Washington resident and the author of the moving memoir, "796 Days: Hiding as a Child in Occupied Amsterdam During WWII", will appear on the stage at the Landmark on Main Street to discuss his personal story along with five members of the family who rescued him during World War II, who have traveled from the Netherlands to participate in the event. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
The event is sponsored by Landmark and the Friends of the Library. Landmark is participating under the auspices of its Conversations on Main Street series and its sponsors Angela and Scott Jaggar.
FOL University
Sunday, April 3, 2016
FOL University, the Friends of the Library's lecture program featuring notable scholars and university professors, returns Sunday, April 3 at 1:30 p.m. with Thomas Germano, a Full Professor of Art who teaches painting, drawing and art history at the State University of New York at Farmingdale. Professor Germano will discuss breaking news of enormous interest to art lovers and historians: Lost works by Leonardo da Vinci have been the subject of much research and study. In just the past few months the process of multispectral imaging at the British Library has unveiled works erased, overworked, and not visible to the naked eye in Leonardo's Codex Arundel. This visual lecture will highlight new attributions and analyzes a number of claims related to the rare work of Leonardo. Refreshments will be served.
FOL Paperback Swap
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Bring your gently used adult, teen and children's paperbacks to the library's meeting room on the lower level for a free, friendly event where hundreds of patrons swap thousands of books. We will accept hardcover children's books including board books. No more than 20 books per person and no books accepted in advance or in lobby. We stop accepting items at 3:30 p.m. Browsers welcome!
FOL Meet the Author Series: Thomas Vinciguerra
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country's most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In his new book Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber and the Golden Age of The New Yorker, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine's cadre of charming, wisecracking, driven, troubled, brilliant writers and editors.
He introduces us to Wolcott Gibbs, theater critic, all-around wit, and author of an infamous 1936 parody of Time magazine. We meet the demanding and eccentric founding editor Harold Ross, who would routinely tell his underlings, "I'm firing you because you are not a genius." Joining the cast are the mercurial, blind James Thurber, a brilliant cartoonist and wildly inventive fabulist, and the enigmatic E. B. White—an incomparable prose stylist and Ross's favorite son—who marriedThe New Yorker's formidable fiction editor, Katharine Angell. Then there is the dashing St. Clair McKelway, who was married five times and claimed to have no fewer than twelve personalities, but was nonetheless a superb reporter and managing editor alike.
Cast of Characters may be the most revealing—and entertaining—book yet about the unique personalities who built what Ross called not a magazine but a "movement."
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Paul Arfin
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Paul Arfin is the author of Unfinished Business: Social Action in Suburbia: Long Island NY 1945-2014. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
FOL University Lecture Program
Sunday, November 1, 2015
FOL U returns on with two lectures on timely and fascinating topics. Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will present "Crossing the Digital Divide: How the Met is Moving Beyond its Physical Walls While Preserving Its Incredible Legacy." Professor Robert W. Snyder of Rutgers will speak on his book, Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York. Refreshments will be served in the brief interval between speakers.
FOL Paperback Swap
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Bring your gently used adult, teen and children's paperbacks to the library's meeting room for a free, friendly event where hundreds of patrons swap thousands of books. We will accept hardcover children's books including board books. No more than 20 books per person and no books accepted in advance. We stop accepting items at 3:30 p.m. Browsers welcome!
Saturday, October 17, 2015
FOL PAPERBACK SWAP. Bring your gently used adult, teen and children's paperbacks for a free, friendly event where hundreds of patrons swap thousands of books. We will accept hardcover children's books including board books. No more than 20 books per person and no books accepted in advance. We stop accepting items at 3:30 p.m. Browsers welcome! 1 to 4 p.m.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Steve Israel
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Author and Congressman Steve Israel will discuss his first novel, The Global War on Morris. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Martha Fay
Friday, September 25, 2015
Meet Martha Fay, author of Out of Line: the Art of Jules Feiffer. Books will be available for purchase & signing.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Eric Brach
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Eric Brach is co-author with Dennis Cheung of Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Valerie Sperling
Friday, August 21, 2015
In Sex, Politics, and Putin, (Oxford University Press, 2014) Valerie Sperling investigates how gender stereotypes have been used as tools of political legitimization in contemporary Russia. Valerie Sperling is Professor of Political Science at Clark University, and the author of Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Maria Schulz
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
In Tales From A Hungry Life: A Memoir With Recipes (Coqui Press, 2014) Maria Schulz tells hilarious, sometimes poignant stories of a not-so-typical 1970's American family who lived, loved and ate like there was no tomorrow. The book is filled with a hearty helping of old family recipes, as well as memories that celebrate a time, a place and a group of people who knew that to eat together was to live well. Join Maria and several members of her exuberant family for a reading and discussion. Maria Schulz is an author, copywriter, and blogger who lives in Old Bethpage.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Erika Swyler
Friday, July 31, 2015
Erika Swyler will read from and discuss her debut novel, The Book of Speculation. The plot: Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling into Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister ran off to join the circus. "Swyler creates a melancholy world with hints of magic at the edges… fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, or Katherine Howe's The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane won't want to leave this festival," according to Library Journal. Erika Swyler's short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. Born and raised on the North Shore of Long Island, Erika recently moved from Brooklyn back to her hometown, which inspired the setting of the book.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Susan Isaacs
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Bestselling novelist and Port favorite Susan Isaacs returns to the Library to read from and discuss her first novella, A Hint of Strangeness, her first e-book original, which was recently selected and published by Amazon as a Kindle Single. The Washington Post said, "Nobody does smart, gutsy, funny, sexy women better than Susan Isaacs." Add to that praise the adjective "strong," and you've got Susan's latest protagonist, Marianne Kent. Port Washington's own Susan Isaacs was dubbed "Jane Austen with a shmear" on NPR's Fresh Air, and is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, two screenplays and numerous essays and reviews.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Ellen Meister
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Ellen Meister will read from and discuss Dorothy Parker Drank Here, her follow-up to her widely praised novel, Farewell, Dorothy Parker. Meister has written five novels, and numerous short stories and essays. She teaches creative writing at Hofstra University Continuing Education. Ellen lives on Long Island with her husband and three children. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Colm Toibin
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Colm Toibin is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. He is currently the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. Toibin will sit for an exclusive, wide-ranging interview and will discuss his latest novel, Nora Webster.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Charles and Mirella Affron
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Meet Charles and Mirella Affron, authors of Grand Opera: The Story of the Met. Drawing on vast and intricate research, Grand Opera lays out the entire history of the Metropolitan Opera—its triumphs and its catastrophes, its labor squabbles and its architecture, its impresarios and its stars. For anyone who cares about opera, this book is an essential reference guide and companion. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
46th Annual Book & Author Luncheon
Friday, May 15, 2015
The Friends of the Library's 46th Annual Richard D. Whittemore Book & Author Luncheon will be on Friday, May 15, 2015, at the North Hills Country Club. The Friends is proud to announce that the featured authors will be Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who just published his first noir graphic novel "Kill My Mother," and acclaimed novelist Mary Gordon, whose most recent book is "The Liar's Wife," four compelling novellas of Americans in Europe and Europeans in America. Port's own bestselling novelist, Susan Isaacs, will once again serve as moderator. Tickets are $75. Reservations must be made in advance by May 6. Please pick up a reservation brochure in the library or print out the brochure from this website. For questions about reservations contact FOL board member and luncheon registrar Mary Alice Kohs at firstname.lastname@example.com or 883-9434.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Hilma Wolitzer
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Join the Friends of the Library at this special program with renown novelist and Long Island resident Hilma Wolitzer, bestselling author of "An Available Man" and many other titles. Refreshments will be served. Books will be available for purchase and signing. This event is part of the FOL's Meet the Author Series, which in the past two years has featured Roger Rosenblatt, Nelson DeMille, Gail Sheehy, Eric Fischl, George Vecsey, and Dr. Sandeep Jauhar.
Friends & Family Weekend 2015
Friday, March 20 - March 22, 2015
The Friends of the Library invites library patrons of all ages to Friends & Family Weekend, March 20-22, which will feature events such as a Rockabilly concert, a book swap, and lectures by renowned scholars. All events are in the library's meeting room.
The weekend kicks off on Friday March 20 with a "Sandwiched In" lecture at 12:10 p.m. featuring noted horticultural author Thomas Christopher speaking on his book "Essential Perennials." Christopher, a graduate of the New York Botanical Garden School of Professional Horticulture, is a former columnist for Horticulture, House & Garden, and Country Living Gardener. Christopher is a past speaker at the FOL's Annual Book & Author Luncheon, and his appearance is part of the continuing FOL Meet the Author series.
At 7:30 pm Friday a "Live@PWPL" concert features "Rockabilly Crooners! With the Robert Poe Band." This entertaining musical event is appropriate for adults and families with children 12 and over.
The events on Saturday March 21 (Paperback Swap) and Sunday March 22 (FOL University) are listed below.
"We invite the community to share Friends & Family Weekend with us, as we showcase the library as a friendly meeting place and cultural hub for patrons of all ages," said Amy G. Bass, president of the FOL.
FOL Meet the Author Series: Dr. Sandeep Jauhar
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Join the Friends of the Library at this special program with the acclaimed author of "Doctored: the Disillusionment of an American Physician" and "Intern", Dr. Sandeep Jauhar. He will be interviewed by Randy Cohen for "Person Place Thing" for future broadcast on NPR. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Refreshments will be served. This event is part of the FOL's Meet the Author Series, which in the past two years has featured Roger Rosenblatt, Nelson DeMille, Gail Sheehy, Eric Fischl, and George Vecsey, among others.
FOL University
Sunday, November 2, 2014
The Friends of the Library's stimulating FOL University program returns Sunday Nov. 2 at 1:30 p.m. in the library's meeting room. Modeled on the concept of a one-day university, this events features lectures by two scholars on timely and fascinating topics, with a brief refreshment break in-between. The first scholar will be John McWhorter, Associate Professor in the English and Comparative Literature department at Columbia University. Dr. McWhorter has written many books on language including "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English" and the recently published "The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language."
In his return appearance at the library, McWhorter will be discussing texting and its impact on writing. Texting is often thought of as a threat to formal writing skills, but McWhorter argues that texting is actually a form of speech rather than writing, and that constructions like LOL are less slang than new ways of subtle expression.
Following a brief intermission, History Professor Joseph Dorinson of Long Island University's Brooklyn campus will speak on political humor. Dorinson will examine how political leaders have employed wit to their advantage and demonstrate why they also became targets of verbal missiles – how humor establishes the parameters of power and punishes those who travel beyond the pale.
A noted author and authority in the field of popular culture, Dorinson's research specialties span humor studies, sports history, Russian immigration, Brooklyn and Jewish history, and World War II movies and music. His broadcast appearances have included Fox News, NBC, WLIW-TV, New York 1, and WNYC-AM's New York and Company.
FOL U is sponsored by the Epstein Family in memory of Professor Edmund Epstein.
FOL Paperback Swap
Saturday, October 25, 2014
The Friends of the Library's popular Paperback Swap returns! Bring your gently used adult, teen and children's paperbacks to the library's meeting room for a free, friendly swap. We will accept hardcover children's books including board books. No more than 20 books per person. Books are not accepted in advance. We stop accepting items at 3:30 p.m. Browsers welcome!
Meet Author Gail Sheehy
Thursday, October 2, 2014
The Friends proudly presents author and memoirist Gaily Sheehy as part of its "Meet the Author" lecture series. Sheehy, the author of the classic New York Times bestseller, Passages, returns with her inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking "girl" journalist in the 1960s, from iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern times. Candid, insightful, and powerful, Daring: My Passages (William Morrow, September 9, 2014) is the story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared . . . to walk New York City streets with hookers and pimps to expose violent prostitution; to march with civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland as British paratroopers opened fire; to seek out Egypt's president Anwar Sadat when he was targeted for death after making peace with Israel. Passages was named by the Library of Congress as one of the ten most influential books of our time. As a literary journalist, Sheehy was one of the original contributors to New York magazine and has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984. Please join us for this special occasion on Thursday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the library's meeting room. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Refreshments will be served.
Meet Author Philippa Gregory
Monday, September 15, 2014
The FOL proudly announces that this #1 New York Times bestselling author will be touring in the United States in September and Port Washington is her first stop. She will be discussing The King's Curse (on Sale September 9, 2014, Touchstone) which follows Henry VIII's rise to power. The King's Curse is the eagerly anticipated next volume of Gregory's stunning Cousins' War novels, basis for the critically acclaimed Starz series The White Queen. It takes place in the aftermath of the bloody clash between York and Lancaster, when the Tudors have ascended to the throne. Dr. Gregory is the author of several bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl, and is a recognized authority on women's history. She studied history at the University of Sussex and received a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. This free event will be held at 7 p.m., Monday, September 15 at The Landmark on Main Street, co-sponsors with the Friends of the Library. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Beverly Halm Memorial Program
Sunday, September 14, 2014
"This is Ragtime," a special program featuring Terry Waldo, one of America's premier performers of early jazz and ragtime, and honoring the memory of FOL board member Beverly Halm.
FOL 45th Annual Book & Author Luncheon
Friday, May 16, 2014
Reserve early for the Friends' 45th Annual Richard D. Whittemore Book & Author Luncheon. Reservation brochures will be available in the library and online beginning April 1, 2014. The featured authors will be essayist Delia Ephron (Sister Mother Husband Dog) and historical novelist Kevin Baker (The Big Crowd). Best-selling novelist Susan Isaacs returns as moderator. The event will again be held at the North Hills Country Club, Manhasset.
The Edna Project
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Please join us for THE EDNA PROJECT: The poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, set to music by Liz Queler and Seth Farber. An eclectic, imaginative collection of 21 songs spanning folk,bluegrass, rock and jazz.
Meet Artist and Author Eric Fischl
Thursday, March 27, 2014
The Friends of the Library presents artist Eric Fischl on Thursday March 27 at 7:30 pm, author of Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas. Renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and controversial paintings as "Bad Boy" and "Sleepwalker," Fischl joined the front ranks of America artists, in a high-octane downtown art scene that included Andy Warhol, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, and others. It was a world of fashion, fame, cocaine and alcohol that for a time threatened to undermine all that Fischl had achieved. "Bad Boy" takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through the passion and politics of the art world as it has rarely been seen before. This event co-sponsored with the library's Art Adivsory Council.
FOL Paperback Swap: Bring DVDs, too!
Saturday, March 22, 2014
The Friends of the Library's popular Paperback Swap returns Saturday March 22 from 1 to 4 p.m.– and this time you can contribute your gently used DVDs too! DVDs must be operable and in original cases. DVDs for all ages accepted.
Bring your adult, teen and children's paperbacks— good condition only! — for a free, friendly swap. We will accept hardcover children's books including board books. No more than 20 books and 20 DVDs per person. Books and DVDs are not accepted in advance and we stop accepting items at the event at 3:30 p.m. Browsers welcome.
Note new location: Upstairs on mezzanine level and in Hagedorn meeting room.
Edmund L. Epstein Memorial Program
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Join the FOL in a program honoring Professor Edmund Epstein, an internationally known literary scholar who specialized in James Joyce. He was a long-time Port Washington resident known for his lectures at the library sponsored by the FOL and the book discussion group he led. He died April 1, 2012. This program features a performance of William Luce's one-woman play "The Belle of Amherst" about the poet Emily Dickinson. Performed by Melanie Lipton.
Meet Nelson DeMille
Monday, November 18, 2013
The Quest (Center Street, September 17, 2013). Originally released as a mass-market paperback in 1975 as DeMille's first full-length novel, The Quest has now been entirely rewritten and greatly expanded with new characters and a new ending. From the dusty archives of the Vatican to the overgrown jungles of Ethiopia, an unlikely crew of four begins a deadly search for the Holy Grail. In the best DeMille tradition, readers take a thrilling ride where good eventually triumphs, but at a steep price. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of 17 novels, he lives on Long Island.
FOL University
Sunday, November 17, 2013
The Friends of the Library welcomes Dr. Orin Grossman to "FOL University" to lecture on the musical genius of Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" on Sunday, Nov. 17 at 1:30 p.m. in the library's Lapham Meeting Room. Dr. Grossman's presentation explores the story of Porgy and Bess and the fascinating history of its life on the stage. It will begin with the 1925 novel "Porgy" by DuBose Heywood, who became Gershwin's collaborator, and discuss the many controversies that surrounded its original and subsequent productions. The program will conclude with a performance by Dr. Grossman of the opera's songs including "Summertime" and "Bess, You is my Woman Now," in a special piano arrangement by the renown American pianist Earl Wild.
Meet Roger Rosenblatt
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood (Ecco, November 5, 2013). In a beautifully wrought series of vignettes, Rosenblatt evokes with rare precision a disappeared New York, the people who inhabited it, and the larger world of which it was a part. A moving meditation on what endures times' inexorable movement forward, his memoir is both an homage to and an elegy for the city he loves. Roger Rosenblatt's essays for Time and The NewsHour on PBS have won two George Polk Awards, a Peabody, and an Emmy. He is the author of fifteen books, including the national bestsellers Making Toast, Rules for Aging, and Lapham Rising. His Children of War won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He and his wife live in Quogue and Maryland.
FOL Paperback Swap
Saturday, October 19, 2013
The return of the popular Paperback Book Swap 1-4 p.m. Bring your adult, teen and children's paperbacks – good condition only! – to the library's meeting room for a free, friendly swap. No more than 20 books per person. Books are not accepted in advance. Note that we make an exception for hardcover children's books including board books. Browsers welcome!
44th Annual Book & Author Luncheon
Friday, May 17, 2013
The FOL's signature event, the 44th annual Richard D. Whittemore Book & Author Luncheon, will be held on Friday, May 17, at 11 a.m. at the North Hills Country Club in Manhasset. The Book & Author Luncheon will feature Pulitzer Prize finalist David Nasaw, author of "The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy," and Will Schwalbe, author of New York Times bestseller "The End of Your Life Book Club." Reservation brochures for the luncheon are available in the library and can also be printed from this link and mailed. The cost is $65 per person. For information call 883-4400, ext. 130. The registrar for the event is Tinu Thakore, who can be reached at 767-1142 or email@example.com.
Paperback Book Swap
Saturday, March 9, 2013
The return of the popular Paperback Book Swap, Saturday, March 9, 1-4 p.m. Bring your adult, teen and children's paperbacks – good condition only! – to the library's meeting room for a free, friendly swap. No more than 20 books per person. Books are not accepted in advance. Note that we make an exception for hardcover children's books including board books. Browsers welcome!
Edmund L. Epstein Memorial Lecture
Sunday, March 3, 2013
The Edmund L. Epstein Memorial Lecture, Sunday, March 3, 3 p.m. The lecture, Insights Into James Joyce's The Dubliners, will be given by Dr. Moshe Gold of Fordham University, a friend and colleague of Professor Epstein, who was a longtime Port Washington resident and an internationally known scholar specializing in Joyce.
FOL Book Swap
Saturday, November 10, 2012
The Friends of the Library Paperback Book Swap returns on Saturday, November 10 from 1 to 4 p.m. Bring your paperback adult, teen and children's books – good condition only! – to the library's meeting room for a free, friendly book swap. Please: No more than 20 books per person, and books are not accepted in advance, outside or in the lobby. Browsers welcome! (Note that we make an exception for hardcover children's books including board books).
Election 2012 Lecture
Sunday, October 21, 2012
ELECTION 2012: It's All About the Suburbs. The Friends of the Library welcomes Lawrence Levy, Executive Dean of the Suburban Studies Department at Hofstra University. 3 p.m.
Lucette Lagnado
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Author of the award-winning memoir The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
On Thursday November 29 more than 100 patrons heard author Lagnado discuss her award-winning memoir, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World. Wall Street Journal reporter Lagnado recounts how her once prosperous family lost everything including their identity when they fled her father's beloved Cairo for New York in the 60s. The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit is a moving riches-to-rags story of loss, identity, faith, tradition and triumph that has been hailed by The New York Times as a "crushing, brilliant book."
Friends & Family Day 2007
Saturday, November 3, 2007
A New Tradition
On Saturday, November 3, nearly 500 library patrons enjoyed the second annual Friends & Family Day, which showcases the library as a friendly meeting place for patrons of all ages. Events included vaudevillian silent clown Chip Bryant performing for children, author Dan Paisner speaking on the art of ghostwriting, a family movie presentation of Willy Wonka with free popcorn, and a popular afternoon paperback book swap. Teen volunteers helped pass out library literature and sort books.
2007 Book & Author Luncheon A Roaring Success
Friday, May 11, 2007
Bestselling novelist Alice Hoffman (Skylight Confessions) and award-winning historian David Nasaw (Andrew Carnegie) wowed a crowd of 200 at the 38th Annual Richard D. Whittemore Book & Author Luncheon on May 11 at the George Washington Manor.
Past speakers at this prestigious event have included John Berendt (The City of Falling Angels), William J. Broad (The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi), Russell Shorto (Island at the Center of the World), Mimi Sheraton (Eating My Words), A. Scott Berg (Lindbergh), Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha), Dava Sobel (Galileo's Daughter), Dennis Lehane (Mystic River), and Susan Isaacs.
2007 Bogen Lectures On Shakespeare Draw Crowds
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
The 2007 Ruth D. Bogen Memorial Lectures in April featured two talks by John Broza, Shakespeare scholar and legendary Schreiber High School teacher. His topics were Aspects of Love in Shakespeare (4/24) and Bad to the Bone: Some of Shakespeare's Notorious Villains (4/29). Each lecture drew more than 100 attendees to the library's Lapham Room.
40th Anniversary Celebration Weekend November 3-5
Friday, November 3, 2006
Nearly 400 people attended our Celebration Weekend, which included a family movie night, a vaudeville show for kids, a gospel concert, and a lecture on the future of investigative journalism, among other events.Thanks to the library staff and local businesses who supported us: Dolphin Bookshop, Eckerd on Port Blvd., Frank's Pizza, and Stop & Shop. Here are the winners of our K-6 Art and Writing Contest on the themes of "The best book I ever borrowed from our library" and "What I love about our library."
Cassie Scandalios
Helena Littman
Harry Paul
Annie Rubin
Clara Teitel
Jenny Aguiar
Kelly To
Honorable mention for writing and art: Amanda Dumpson


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Feel free to substitute stir-fry sauce for the teriyaki baste and glaze.
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By Brad Locke/NEMS Daily Journal
STARKVILLE – Rick Ray wants no pity.
There are plenty of reasons to feel sorry for Ray, whose first season as Mississippi State's basketball coach has been one headache after another. The Bulldogs (7-19, 2-12 SEC) have lost 12 consecutive games and have been battling low numbers all season due to injuries and suspensions.
MSU is coming off a 72-31 loss to Vanderbilt, the program's lowest scoring output in the shot clock era.
Despite all the struggles, Ray said he has no regrets taking the job despite offseason attrition, which included him dismissing two players prior to the season.
"I don't want our guys feeling sorry for themselves. I know I don't feel sorry for myself," Ray said Monday. "I have no buyer's remorse about being the head coach here at Mississippi State. I think it's a great opportunity, and I think we're going to be good."
MSU visits Kentucky (19-8, 10-4) on Wednesday and will again have just six scholarship players available. Three of those players are freshmen and two are junior college transfers.
The issues of depth and inexperience are often mentioned by Ray as reasons for MSU's struggles, but he said they aren't excuses.
"I'm not trying to garner, hey, you do remember we only have this. I'm just stating facts. I don't have an agenda behind it," Ray said.
He sees hope for this program, which next year will get back three players who are out for the season with injuries, and a three-man signing class will further beef up the roster. And according to freshman Fred Thomas, these current struggles should prove beneficial.
"We can really learn from losing," he said, "and prepare for next year."
Davis practicing
One of the injured players expected to help next season is freshman point guard Jacoby Davis, who tore his ACL during the summer. He was cleared on Thursday to participate in five-on-five practice drills and has been acting as the scout team point guard.
Freshman Andre Applewhite, who tore his ACL and meniscus in November, still has some work to do to get back on the practice floor full time.
Johnson still benched
Sophomore forward Roquez Johnson remains suspended and will not play against Kentucky.
Johnson, a 6-foot-7 reserve and one of just three healthy post players for MSU, has missed the last two games with an indefinite suspension.
Whether he'll return Saturday against Ole Miss remains up in the air, Ray said.
"When we get back, we'll determine his status as far as what we'll do in the next game. But he definitely will not be playing at Kentucky," Ray said.
Johnson is averaging 8.8 points and 4.5 rebounds per game.


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If you didn't get enough Neverwinter goodness yesterday from our hands on previews, be sure to swing by the official site to check out the latest developer blog centered squarely on the Devoted Cleric, one of three classes that will be playable during this weekend's beta event.
Fortunately, an ally is at your side: The Devoted Cleric. This versatile class is capable of handling any situation your party may encounter. In a support role, their heal abilities are unmatched in Neverwinter. In combat roles, the Devoted Cleric can punish foes with the likes of a seasoned Guardian Fighter. Many enemies have wrongly underestimated the power of a Devoted Cleric – with deadly consequences.
Read the full post on the Neverwinter site.
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This is an awesome manga. If you long to read a battle manga that is more rooted in reality then this one is for you. The action isn't too over the top and the fighting principles are all based on the real thing. It isn't really a very serious seinen manga like others in this thread. You'll laugh a lot reading through this. It's a seinen manga with a shounen main character. Well, I can say that it's just borderline seinen. This can actually be shounen if not for few nudity and a little gore. I'm sure there'll be some debate on whether which martial art is the deadliest. I hope you'll enjoy reading this manga.
Kohinata Minoru is a college student at a college that is popular for its sports rather than academic orientation. He starts out as a gymnast alongside his friend, Nana, but is bullied by his gymnast seniors. One evening, a karate student at the college, Mutou Ryuuji, witnesses Minoru being bullied and comes to his rescue and drags him into the world of karate. Minoru makes new friends and learns some of their dark pasts, including a shocking death that reveals motives for revenge.


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The 90-minute interview will be his first major interview since the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released evidence against him in October that said he used drugs and blood transfusions.
Lance Armstrong is going on Oprah.
And you know what that means.
Armstrong is probably going to open up about something — or he's just starting up the public-relations machine.
The Oprah Winfrey Network is scheduled to air a 90-minute "no-holds-barred interview" with the famed cyclist on Jan. 17. It will be his first major interview since the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released a huge file of evidence against him October that said he used drugs and blood transfusions throughout his career to gain an advantage.
Armstrong has denied doping allegations for years but has maintained a mostly public silence since the evidence came out. The three-month silence has fueled speculation that he might be considering a confession after being fired by all of his sponsors and stripped of his seven titles in the Tour de France.
IF HE CONFESSES: It'll likely be a business decision
The network says Winfrey interviews Armstrong at his home in Austin.
By talking to Winfrey, Armstrong is taking a well-worn celebrity path back to public redemption. The iconic talk show host has been known for wringing various emotional revelations from celebrities, including Kim Kardashian, Whitney Houston and Rihanna.


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It's been awhile since I asked what is the last book you read or would want someone to read?
Last book, Malcolm Gladwell "David and Goliath". May start Clavell's "Shogun" nextReplyCancel
Octavia Butler's Wild Seed.ReplyCancel
60 bucks!? Thats a book i don't want to buy used.ReplyCancel
OK. VIP got me with that one (slow hand clap)ReplyCancel
Reading Orange is the New Black currently…I know I'm late but I like reading books that are turned into shows before watching the show/movie.
Oh and I love breast…not really related to this topic at all but I just wanted you guys to know how much I really enjoy the female body!ReplyCancel
I think Ill pass reading VIPs book. The last book I read was called Swimming With Piranhas and for good reason too….ReplyCancel
"The Architecture of Happiness" by Alain de BottonReplyCancel
I finished "The Cuckoo's Calling" and Joe Hill's "NOS4A2", now reading "The Husband's Secret" by Laine Moriarty. Next up is "The Goldfinch".
Jim Butcher and GRR Martin need to write faster!ReplyCancel
Amazing book, one of my favorites.ReplyCancel
@Tanisha your book seems to have been received very well.ReplyCancel
Last book, "High Plains Moon – A Novel of the Undead West", Glenn R. Sixburg – currently working on "Magic Bites", Ilona Andrews.
Dependent on the genre.
Historical romance/horror, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's St. Germaine series. (I've been collecting her since 1979)
Supernatural detective/urban fantasy, Jim Butcher's "Dresden Files". It's like Phillip Marlowe meets Harry Potter.
Secret read? Anything by Laurell Hamilton but especially her "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter" series.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Night Circus
The Messenger
Highly reccomend all three.ReplyCancel
Clinical Psychopharmacology, seventh edition. It was dry reading.ReplyCancel
@Merlin, I love Jim Butcher! James Marsters (Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) narrated all but one of the audiobooks. He's totally Harry Dresden to me now.ReplyCancel
Seven, I was so excited for Goldfinch – loved her first book, never finished her second, same with the third. I do know people who liked it tho.
I never reread anything (well except for 5 books) but am rereading The Malazan Book of the Fallen, for all you sf/fantasy fans, it's that good.
Just finished Ancillary Justice, great book. Presently reading Islandia.ReplyCancel
The Husband's Secret. Loved it! Highly recommend.ReplyCancel
Vertical – the follow up book to Rex Pickett's Sideways. Miles and Jack go on another road trip. Loved it.ReplyCancel
I've been reading all of Jen Lancaster and stacey Ballis' books again.ReplyCancel
Last books read:
From Russia With Love, by Ian Fleming
1959: The Year That Changed Everything, by Fred Kaplan
The Village: A History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaugh
Currently reading:
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, by Eric Schlosser
Forensic Accounting For Dummies, by Frimette Kass-Shraibman and Vijay S. Sampath
I read The Goldfinch last year… Not as good as The Secret History but better than The Little Friend. There's a point where Goldfinch begins to drag a bit, but it picks up again after T. leaves L.V. (that will make sense in context, and it is not very spoilery). Love Hobie (in my head, I cannot picture anyone but STEPHEN FRY!) and Boris.
Last book I started was Ripped by Shelly Dickson Carr. I am super fascinated by the Ripper case, but I couldn't finish this. Was just too predictable.
As I'm a fan of the Bridget Jones series, I did read the third book (Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy). I thought what with the major development that was all over the news that I wouldn't like it, but I did. It's bittersweet and really captures well the despair of loss and the prospect of happiness to follow (while not forgetting our past happinesses).
Next up for me is The Luminaries. I don't know anything about it, but it came highly recommended by people whose taste in books I trust.ReplyCancel
@Meatros @Karen — SUCH A WEIRD BOOK. I love it. Did you know that the album Haunted by Poe is a sort of companion piece? Poe is the author's sister.ReplyCancel
Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. … Wonderful, poignant, very human.
Next up… Douglas Rushkoff's Present Shock. (I'm trying to make sense of this increasingly nonsensical fast-paced world.)
@SnapDragon… How do you add italics? Thanks in advance?ReplyCancel
11/22/63, really good if you're a history buff and/or like Stephen King books. Just started GoldfinchReplyCancel
Does Pop up Books count?ReplyCancel
I just finished Serena by Ron Rash and it took awhile to get into but it was intense starting toward the middle. It should be interesting to see Jennifer Lawrence play this character when the movie comes out.ReplyCancel
I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Highly recommended.
I've never been able to get through House of Leaves. I have a copy, I've started it so many times, and I just can't.
If you've read The Shining, then be sure to read the sequel that came out last year, Doctor Sleep. It's a great follow up, and does the first book justice.ReplyCancel
@TinselSass: you have to enter it as raw HTML code. <i>Hi there!</i> becomes Hi there!
You can also substitute the i with a b for bold and a u for underline.
Hope this helps 🙂ReplyCancel
The one book I recommend to everyone is Never Let Me Go By Kazuo Ishiguro. I've read A LOT of books but this one will always stick with me. One of the best things I've ever read. Oh and thanks for the other suggestions. Putting lots of books on my Goodreads list!ReplyCancel
"Storm Kings: the Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers" by Lee Sandlin.
Did you know that back the when the eastern US was still mostly covered by forest, Indians and pioneers discovered what they called "wind roads" – massive wide, winding paths through the forests surrounded by the remains of blown-down trees?
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin once rode horseback alongside a tornado?
Did you know that it used to be against the law for weather forecasters to use the word 'tornado' in their forecasts?
Did you know that a major tornado outbreak in the 1800s led to newspaper editorials speculating that the it might be due to climate change, and that the climate may have changed as a result of the nation's massive deforestation as it was settled?
If you like history and if you're fascinated by tornadoes or weather of any sort, you will find this book so much fun to read.ReplyCancel
Another GoT AND Dresden Fan? You are now my #1 bitch (and I say that with affection).ReplyCancel
Easier for me to list this way, I have read all of Jim Butcher, George R R Martin, Laurell K Hamilton, Dennis Lehane, Greg Iles, and Michael Connelly. Absolutely love them all.ReplyCancel
Did you ever watch the Dresden Files tv show?ReplyCancel
Hey, Nap, I've been reading Night Circus for like a year! Can't get past aboot a thirdReplyCancel
@liliesrnice: I loved the movie Never Let Me Go with that gorgeous haunting soundtrack but I can imagine the book is much better as they always are.
@Caraface: I renamed that book a 1000 Sad Moments. Good gawd that book was difficult to read. Love the author however.
Hammer, Dennis Lehane is my all-time top two writerReplyCancel
Lol, yes I did. Did you know Nic Cage produced it?ReplyCancel
I've heard those are both good books, Charlie! I love Malcolm Gladwell and my mom says Shogun is the shiznitReplyCancel
Her Merry Gentry series is good too. A word of advise though, don't bother with collections where she has a short story in them. They are always a snippet of a main book, not original material unless it states so on the cover.ReplyCancel
@Kristin, it's become awkward, because it was a present, so I've taken to reading a couple of pages before parental phone callsReplyCancel
So like Gone, Girl Baby, Gone? Did not like Gone Girl but will check this book out, just because you are awesome, KristinReplyCancel
@Kristin, thanks! Sounds good!ReplyCancel
You and me both, KristinReplyCancel
Last book, And The Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini.
@OneEyeCharlie, Clavell is marvelous. Shogun is a terrific book, as is Gai-Jin.
I've read my Gary Jennings books so many times I've had to replace them.
I read all of:
Barbara Kingsolver
Dennis Lehane
Jeffrey Deaver
Michael Connelly
Stephen Hunter
Iain Pears
Daniel Silva
Lee Child
Dan brown
Margaret George
I actually read most anything put in front of me.
I highly recommend all the above named authors.ReplyCancel
Okay, if we're doing favourite authors, I feel like I need to mention my other top-two guy, along with Dennis Lehane. Love Lawrence Block, especially the Matthew Scudder series, but I've got them allReplyCancel
@TANISHA…YOUR BOOK COSTS TOO MUCH…your price point needs to be lowered..but i will buy it to support you…ReplyCancel
"Who Wrote the Bible" by Richard Elliott Friedman. It was very eye opening.ReplyCancel
Start at the beginning! A Drink Before the War is tough, racial overtones, but so good. Then Darkness Take My Hand. He also wrote Mystic River, but although the Peen made a good movie out of it, I wasn't really a fanReplyCancel
Bwawhaha, Ray!ReplyCancel
I didn't care for Mystic River either. I agree with TTM, start at the beginning with Drink Before the War. I personally love series, and Kenzie & Gennaro are very well written characters you get attached to. Hell the psychotic Bubba is my favorite character though.
@TTM- Have you ever read Greg Iles before? To me he is right up there with Lehane. He has some stand alone books, however a few feature a protagonist named Penn Cage and they are great books. I highly recommend them.ReplyCancel
I have The Night Circus on my iPad but haven't even started it. I've had it on there well over 6 months I think.ReplyCancel
I have not, but I am writing down his name, Hammer! Ladies, we should totally do an International CDaN Book Club! By that I mean drink wine and hijack Off Topic threads once a week when skimpymist isn't lookingReplyCancel
Never Let Me Go caused a shitstorm in our book club that we talk about years later! Some of us weren't that thrilled with it and the woman who proposed it went off! She never came back and called us all immature bitches!
@ Stephanie – Devil in the White City is awesome.ReplyCancel
Nominate a day/night on the weekend and I will jack the shit out of it;)ReplyCancel
My hands are pretty full during the week….ReplyCancel
Ok, to be honest the last book I read was Journey Into Darknmess: The Story of True Story of Kane. I coudln't find my old copy so I ordered a copy off Amazon and it came in yesterday, I opened it to check it and read the entire thing just for the hilarity of Katie Vick.
Yes, it's based on the wrestler Kane and yes it tells his story as if the character is a real person. YES, it is so bad it's great.
If you asked yesterday if would've been The Divine Comedy. I have eclectic reading habits.ReplyCancel
NapAssasin, help a girl oot and do a quick recap so my mom will stop sighing at meReplyCancel
I'm good with Sundays; Kristin, does that work for you? Say the third Sunday of every month? I don't think there is an OffTopic thread on the weekend, so how aboot we just pick the lamest Blind Item Almost Revealed or something and go to town?
Hey, anyone could join! Kristin, you in?? Anyone else?ReplyCancel
Rowdy, I do like 'em well-read! Any stage craft in your past?ReplyCancel
I'm in @TTM Well, for as much as I can; during school I get most of my reading through text books. 🙁 But my one true love is reading.ReplyCancel
I played Daniel from Daniel in the Lion's Den in fourth grade.I have Starcraft installed on my computer if that works lol
They wanted me to do some musicals in high school but I always got stage fright thinking of singing on stage. That was before I discovered the magic of beer. Actually, thinking of that makes me want to go sing Karaoke again. I haven't been in years once I quit drinking anything after they changed my meds.ReplyCancel
Pillowbook by Sei Shonagon.
Actually lots of books, but I recommend this one to all of you who love gossip. It's a diary written by a Japanese court lady in waiting, it's like reading juicy gossip, who is bedding who, backstabbing to become the empress' favorite or the General's courtesan, etc.
she describes things beautifully, and sometimes she is snobbish. It's a first hand account of living in a Japanese court.
@luvgossip….ouch! Lol
Please tell me she sttormed out. Just to complete my visual.
The Story of FerdinandReplyCancel
Awesome, Reno!ReplyCancel
Crap I can't remember cuz I read like 3-4 books simultaneously… My next one will be the last of A Song of Ice and Fire (been putting it off cuz I don't want to be caught up and have nothing to look forward to). I just read a book called "Mutants" about human mutants and one about the Mutter Museum… I'm reading The Christ Conspiracy upstairs and rereading my way thru Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in between.ReplyCancel
This is my first post besides my test one. Have been enjoying TTM and Charlie for weeks now. I love Malcom Gladwell, and am so glad to be reminded of Shogun. I want to read that again. I remember getting carried away by that one.
Anybody read The Good Earth?By Pearl Buck. Amazing.
I love his books! The Proust one is great too.ReplyCancel
Yay, Lovelyloie, welcome! I think I've read that, will have to check.ReplyCancel
Genghis Khan, and the Making of the Modern World – now I know how to kick butt Mongol style.
The Resilience Imperative, Cooperation Transitions to a Steady State Economy by Michael Lewis – so I can learn how to make this crumbling world better, + Mongol tricks
And for funsss,
Uncle Johns bathroom reader Weird Canada – so I can kick but Trivia Pursuit style!ReplyCancel
Greetings LovelyLoie. I actually read The Good Earth years ago (I would have been in 5th or 6th grade). I believe it sparked my fascination with the Far East.ReplyCancel
Sign me up as a Jim Butcher fanReplyCancel
Double Down by Halperin & Heilman (sp?). About the 2012 Obama/Romney election. All kiiiinds of behind-the-scenes juiciness. Highly recommended.ReplyCancel
Not the last finished, but I highly recommend Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler.ReplyCancel
The Magic of Saida by M.G. Vassanji. Multiple story lines, slow going at the start, but a page turner by the end.ReplyCancel
Tana French is an Irish novelist that has 4 mystery/thriller books that are engrossing. They are all connected to the "murder squad" in Dublin, and one member is the focal point of each book. They are very well written and not easily forgotten.
I'm off to Amazon to check some of the other suggested books out!ReplyCancel
Keeshlo, you in? That makes it Reno, Kristin, Hammer, me and keeshlo if he/she is down. Hammer, how about we try your Greg Iles fellow first, if you can suggest a book and are okay with re-reading it? We could see if we could all round up a copy by next Sunday, the 26th?
Hammer, let us know what book, keeshlo, let us know if you are in!
Everyone else is welcome, too! Sounds like we're all a bunch of read-y mofos!ReplyCancel
Del, I love Dennis Lehane as well, have you read any Harlan Coben?ReplyCancel
My very favourite book in the whole world is "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, it got me interested in the Discworld series but isn't a part of it. If you haven't read it, you totally shouldReplyCancel
Love all his books!!ReplyCancel
@Mauexelle, I too love how King weaves his Dark Tower works into other books. 11/22/63, my Amazon review reads like a fangirl letter, and I loved Dr Sleep, too. And yes on Tana French!
@msgirl, is Goldfinch third in a series? Should I try the first before reading Goldfinch?
Never Let Me Go – it's one of those books that you get or you don't. Dystopian, wavering ending. I saw the movie last year after reading the book and liked the movie more than the book (very rare).
Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" is another favorite. I didn't care for the movie as much, but liked the book.
Three books I re-read yearly:
*The Stand (S King)
*The Host (S Meyers
*On Writing (S King)
Dennis Lehane is brilliant. I had the privilege of having face to face time with him. Smart, funny, very low key (now Low Key lol), and just brilliant.
I feel bad that I can't pimp my writer friends here.ReplyCancel
So.jealous re: Dennis Lehane! Also love The Stand, Seven!ReplyCancel
The Red House by Mark HaddonReplyCancel
Awesome, feral, once Hammer lets us know which Greg Iles book to start with I will post and then we can all start reading!
That's good to know, elspeth!ReplyCancel
*rubs hands together and cackles*
How about we start with The Quiet Game. It's the first Penn Cage book.
All right, did everyone get that? Reno, feraltart, keeshlo and anyone else? The Quiet Game by Greg Iles, first meet up next Sunday, January 26. Woot woot! Wine, much wine! I will put my email addy on my profile in case anyone has any suggestions. You guys rock, this is gonna be so much fun!ReplyCancel
Starting Stephen King's newest, Doctor Sleep today. I got it for Christmas but haven't gotten around to reading it.ReplyCancel
Lol @ Kristin
@RowdyR- I just finished Dr Sleep, stuck with it. I put it down a few times due to slow pacing, but once it picks up it gets good.ReplyCancel
@Hammer Girl, I try to never not finish a book. Of all the books I've read, the only one I couldn't get through was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was just waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too dry for me. I guess after hearing how hilarious it was, I was expecting something else and not jokes about the number 42.
It also didn't help that I find British humor to be, for the most part, crap.ReplyCancel
I'm the same way. The one book I never finished was World War Z. After 2 months I said screw it and moved on to something else, and I'm a big fan of that genre.ReplyCancel
I somehow finished World War Z but it left me wondering what everyone saw in it. Then again, I hate Zombie stuff. It's just not entertaining. I really don't see what people see in The Walking Dead, that comic sucked from the beginning.ReplyCancel
I can't do comics, however graphic novels like the 30 Days of Night were decent. I hate how now authors are making their books into comics (Stephen King, Laurell K Hamilton).ReplyCancel
I downloaded a sample to check it out, and the first part literally made my hair stand on end! The movie version of Dick Halloran, played by Scatman Carrothers (sp?), is one of my favorite characters, so I was happy to "see" him again. I had to wait several weeks to download the rest, but it was worth it.ReplyCancel
Dr Sleep is fantastic!ReplyCancel
Absolutely, Meauxelle! The more the merrier! Jan 26, be there or be funky! Or be there AND be funky!ReplyCancel
@Meauxelle-I had the same reaction about the accident! The new book should be out the end of April though:))ReplyCancel
The Once and Future King and The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd are two of my very favorites.
I'm dying to read the Game of Thrones series but there's a similar series and the author died before he finished writing them. I'm not starting GoT until JRRM finishes the whole deal. No way I'm reading all that and then he doesn't finish the last book.ReplyCancel
Middlesex is one of my other favorite books!ReplyCancel
Hello! Yes, everyone usually reads The Good Earth in middle school. I got so much more out of it as an adult, having had a few more struggles in life.
K, back to snarking!


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The expense, time commitment, and work required by the first crop of green building certifications have spurred the development of a new field.
These designations, which have risen to prominence within the last several years, range from whole-building programs designed for speed and affordability to hyper-local ones that focus on one climate, region, or state. They haven't been around as long as LEED or Green Globes, but they're carving out a niche in the market.
Curious about the alternatives? A certification reflecting your unique situation might be your ticket to green recognition.
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Two certifications – the Society of Environmentally Responsible Facilities (SERF) and Class-G (a reference to the office space grading system) – were founded by building and real estate professionals to provide a faster, lower-cost alternative to LEED.
Applying for these two requires you to score your own building and have the results verified – SERF by a third-party architect or engineer, Class-G by their community of fellow participants who can red-flag questionable claims. Self-assessment cuts down on the need for certification specialists, thereby reducing costs.
"We were able to condense each line item on the checklist to 12 words or less. We wanted to create the Twitter of sustainability programs," explains Mike Embrescia, director of Class-G. "One of the problems most companies have is that they lack the human and financial capital to bring on an architectural design firm and engineers to sift through pages and pages to prove their sustainability."
Class-G streamlines certification for multiple locations instead of requiring fully separate applications for each, Embrescia says. It highlights two types of practices – the green actions you're currently taking, plus a wish list of things you plan to do in the near future.
Conversely, SERF offers two certification tracks – prescriptive and performance-based – and lets you choose which one best represents your facility's sustainability commitment.
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Some programs cater to small buildings. Earth Advantage, for example, covered buildings of 10,000-70,000 square feet in its 2008 pilot, though it has since expanded to new and major renovations under 100,000 square feet.
Like BOMA 360, Earth Advantage places a large emphasis on operations and maintenance. However, it also ties in requirements to minimize land and site impact and the wise use of materials.
"The vast majority of buildings in the U.S. are under 100,000 square feet," explains Diana Fischetti, commercial program manager for the retooled Earth Advantage. "Those are the buildings that aren't choosing to certify, often because of cost considerations. Cost per square foot goes up with each decrease in square footage, whereas there's an economy of scale with a larger building."
EarthCraft, a regional certification for the southeast U.S., is intended for even smaller buildings – its light commercial certification (released in 2011) certifies buildings up to 25,000 square feet.
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It's been a long and arduous road for Buffalo Bills third-string offensive tackle Sam Young.
During college, Young was trusted enough by a major college program to start as a freshman and continue to do so through his senior season. Leading Notre Dame all-time in career starts, playing time was never an issue for the offensive lineman.
Once the microscope started to focus in on his weaknesses more than his strengths, as any NFL Draft process will do, Young quickly found that it wouldn't be quite as easy as a professional. Taken in the sixth round by Dallas in 2010, Young hooked on for one season before being waived in September of 2011.
The Bills claimed his services shortly after his release, and he's hung around since. Due to multiple injuries to the offensive line, Young is on the precipice of his first career start in the NFL.
Not having a ginormous chance to see the field like this before, Young got a bit philosophical when speaking about what lies ahead for him.
"I think kind of what I've learned in my time, it's important to get your foot in the door," said Sunday's starting right tackle. "Once you get your foot in the door it's all up to you and as far as what you're going to make of your situation. If you say, 'Hey, look, I'm a late round guy,' and you don't take advantage of your opportunity, that's your fault. So, I'm just looking forward to take advantage of it."
I don't know about you, but that sounds more like a life lesson than any football cliché you hear or read time and time again. The same thing was brought up to Young.
"It's a fable," the third-year player said after a laugh. "Yeah, but you've got to look at it with the right attitude."
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The way houses are built in this region is in some ways timeless, particularly the roofs. Modern ceilings can show how ancient roofs, which we have to reconstruct from small fragments, were built. While it is easy to look at modern houses in villages near the site, it is more complicated when it concerns the ancient houses.
No roof survives in place at Amara West: only the walls and floors remain. But not everything has disappeared. Impressions on mud, though perhaps unimpressive at first sight are very helpful as they record the different layers and materials used to build the roofs.
The wood and other plant material disappeared long ago, eaten by termites. But the shapes impressed in the mud roofs tell us that large beams and poles were used. The roof of our dig house is built in the same way, though metal beams (sometimes from the abandoned railway line) are now preferred.
Layers of grass, reeds and palm fronds, sometimes tied into bundles, were also widely used, along with two different types of matt, as can be seen in some of the mud impressions. The way in which the mats were woven is very similar to those still made and used today in this area.
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New love can look for all the world like mental illness, a blend of mania, dementia and obsession that cuts people off from friends and family and prompts out-of-character behavior - compulsive phone calling, serenades, yelling from rooftops - that could almost be mistaken for psychosis.
Now for the first time, neuroscientists have produced brain scan images of this fevered activity, before it settles into the wine and roses phase of romance or the joint holiday card routines of long-term commitment.
In an analysis of the images appearing today in The Journal of Neurophysiology, researchers in New York and New Jersey argue that romantic love is a biological urge distinct from sexual arousal.
It is closer in its neural profile to drives like hunger, thirst or drug craving, the researchers assert, than to emotional states like excitement or affection. As a relationship deepens, the brain scans suggest, the neural activity associated with romantic love alters slightly, and in some cases primes areas deep in the primitive brain that are involved in long-term attachment.
The research helps explain why love produces such disparate emotions, from euphoria to anger to anxiety, and why it seems to become even more intense when it is withdrawn. In a separate, continuing experiment, the researchers are analyzing brain images from people who have been rejected by their lovers.
"When you're in the throes of this romantic love it's overwhelming, you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 a.m. every day - why? Because she's there," said Dr. Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University and the co-author of the analysis. "And when rejected, some people contemplate stalking, homicide, suicide. This drive for romantic love can be stronger than the will to live."
Brain imaging technology cannot read people's minds, experts caution...
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Dr. Lucy Brown, above, and Dr. Helen Fisher, left, analyzed 2,500 brain images from 17 college students in the throes of new love - a drive, Dr. Fisher said, that "can be stronger than the will to live."
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So, that explains everything! I was insane when I fell in love with a liberal and dated him for 3 years. ;-)
(Now, let me go watch Moulon Rouge for the umpteenth time ...erm, cough cough.... I mean let me go watch illegal no-holds barred Vietnamese dirt-pit fighting LOL).
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I'm glad you clarified that...we might have had to toss you out of the FR He-Man Guild had you let the original assertion stand. ;)
It burns...it burns!
When they say "first-love", are they talking about infatuation or lust?
You had to ruin this, didn't you?
Wow I actually like that movie. It grows on you like a cute fungus. Awwwww you have a crush on Nicole Kidman? She looks good in Bewitched.
Unbeknowst to me I was dating a married man. When I found out, we parted ways but I was really crushhed to find out it was all a lie. I had a really bad facial acne condition for two years and since I've found someone who really does love me and isn't a pathological liar, it's disappeared. Glad I didn't spend the $1000 a doctor was going to charge me to clean up my face.
Put some ice on that :-)
He must be a really great guy!
All the world loves a
lover mental illness?
Yes he is. Whenever I look at his facial hair I don't think of a woman's pubic area. That's really special.
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:..."
Several years ago I saw an "Army film" about how cocaine affected the brain. This fits with that.
Erm ....Cy, you know I like you don't you? But that statement really worries me a lot. Maybe i can recommend a nice vitamin regimen to get those allusions out. LOL.
Just think about it. You know those trendy metrosexual liberal men with the little billygoat moustache? I hate that. I really hate that. I don't need to feel like I'm looking at myself naked. Now you'll never think of a man's beard the same way again thanks to me :o)
LOL. That's one for the records.
You've just made living in Hollywood, CA a living hell.
Oh no! I'm sorry :-)
I just dropped my beer!
Oops! :-) I cause trouble whenever I think out loud :grin:
GULP! (lol)
Not very ladylike post but oh well...I had just had to get that off my chest :-)
I love Moulin Rouge. I made my now husband watch it on our second date (we stayed home and watched movies.) He must have been insane in-love then to watch it with me, because he won't even consider watching it now.
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1. What is the major problem being addressed by this study?Pulmonary hypertension is a debilitating disease with no effective therapeutic option. Current medical treatment improves symptoms and survival, but the morbidity and mortality remains unacceptably high. This suggests that cellular and molecular pathogenic mechanisms of PAH is neither been identified nor therapeutically targeted. A major hallmark of PAH are sustained vasoconstriction, arterial wall thickening, and in situ thrombosis. There is substantial evidence that the sustained pulmonary vasoconstriction is due predominantly to RhoA/Rho kinase-signaling. This study will address that phospholipid, sphingosine-1-phosphate (SIP) is an upstream mediator of Rho kinase signaling that promotes pulmonary vascular vasoconstriction associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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