Have you seen The Sun? It is a magazine for writers and, also, it is a magazine for readers. Specifically, it is a magazine for readers looking for “emerging and established artists who are striving to be thoughtful and authentic.”
The Reading Minute Presents: The SUN on a Rainy Day
The SUN Magazine: "PERSONAL. POLITICAL. PROVOCATIVE. AD-FREE."
Last Minute Gift Ideas
Need last minute gifts? It's not too late to make something unique!
Are you struggling with last minute gifts? Tired of spending your time at the mall? Oakland Public Library can help you create something unique to give this season. Here are some suggestions for making your own gifts. Enjoy!
Heartburn by Nora Ephron and Leaving Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu, A Lakeview Book Club Report
Lakeview Book Club Report on the discussion of Heartburn by Nora Ephron and Leaving Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu.
Eight of us met to discuss these two quickly read books. Heartburn had been on our list for a long time, but we added Leaving Mother Lake, because we wanted to discuss another book with a strong woman. Heartburn was fiction based on fact and Leaving Mother Lake was a memoir, "as told to" anthropologist, Christine Mathieu. Christine Mathieu also added her anthropological analysis of Yang Erche Namu's community in Yunan Province. Our discussion leader for Leaving Mother Lake shared very thorough notes, which brought us all up on the major details.
Yang Erche Namu was born in 1966 in a very remote village in the mountains of Yunnan Province, China. Her isolated community developed a "matrilineal" society over hundreds of years. Anthropologist, Christine Mathieu, conjectures that this evolved
10 Great Reasons to Read Fiction in December 2014
Ready to curl up with some great stories? Here are 10 books to look forward to this December.
Beyond Nanowrimo
Nanowrimo may be ending, but these books will help you to develop your novel throughout the year.
National Novel Writing Month may be coming to an end, but work on your novel is only just beginning. These books will help you develop your craft and provide ideas and support for your existing and future projects.
All summaries are from the publisher's descriptions.
Condé Nast Titles Now Available on Zinio
ZINIO. JUST. GOT. BETTER.
“Do you carry the New Yorker digitally?" "When are you going to get Wired online?” FINALLY, we can respond “YES!”, “and “NOW”! With Zinio, our popular e-magazine platform highlighted in a blog post last June by Magazine & Newspaper Librarian Kirsten Baldock, Oakland Library cardholders can download and keep digital editions of the current issues of popular magazine titles, now including Condé Nast magazines! Since OPL began subscribing to Zinio over a year ago, patrons have been asking for many of these formerly-not-available-to-libraries titles. Condé Nast and Zinio struck a deal this fall, and our patrons now have access to (drum roll):
Notes on GOING CLEAR: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright tells you more than you'd ever thought you'd learn about the pseudo-science beliefs of Scientology and the enforcement of its secrets by its creepy hierarchy. Stranger than Science Fiction!
What a fascinating topic! There were 8 of us at our Lakeview Book Club Meeting in August to discuss Going Clear by Lawrence Wright. Most had read it all. Some read most parts or didn't quite finish. Two were new to our group. One of the new people came, because of the topic, while not having had the opportunity to read the book.Lawrence Wright, an investigative reporter, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. He is from Dallas, Texas and is a graduate of Tulane University and English in at the American University in Cairo in Egypt and received his MA in applied linguistics in 1969.
Going Clear was based on extensive research and over 200
10 Great Reasons to Read Fiction in November 2014
Are you a fiction lover? Here are 10 great books coming out in November.
Even Monsters Deserve a Nice Name
Frankenstein was the name of the doctor not the poor nameless creature. I'm gonna call him Creature.
It's Halloween, let's talk monsters!
For Book Club this month, we read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Before I get into my book rant, I'll fill you in on a few details of the author's life. Her biography is arguably more scandalous than the book's plot.
Mary Wollstencraft Shelley was the daughter of a famous feminist and a well known author who were too hip to get married. Her mom died shortly after her birth, so Mary grew up with her dad, her mean stepmom, her mom's daughter from a previous relationship (an affair with a soldier), her stepmother's kids from her
Literary Hauntings
Have you read a good ghost story lately? Check out these haunted tales just in time for Halloween.
As children my friends and I liked to tell scary stories with the goal of eliciting shrieks from one another. I also have fond memories of reading Great Tales of Horror by Edgar Allan Poe before bed. Perhaps this isn't the best reading for a sound sleep, but I loved the suspense as I eagerly anticipated the end of the story and the scare it would bring.
Have you read a good ghost story lately? Here are some haunted tales for adults, just in time for Halloween.