Librarian's Day Off!

I started early, took my dog, and visited the sea. Not really, but Emily Dickinson did, or so she says in poem 656. You can read it here thanks to The Poetry Foundation.  It's hard for me to imagine Emily Dickinson going to the ocean, and I wonder if she ever did and if so, how she got there.

Kate Atkinson's fifth Jackson Brodie mystery similarly titled, "Started Early, Took My Dog" comes out this week. If you're interested, you can reserve it today and be the first to read our copy when it comes in.

I actually went to the Dickinson Memorial Library  at 115 Main Street in Northfield, Massachusetts because I'd never been there and I needed a new audio book for the weekend. I used my Tilton card and borrowed "The Old Wine Shades" by Martha Grimes.

Most Requested Titles List

http://www.cwmars.org/western_titles

The list of the top three most requested titles for WMARS libraries starts with James Patterson's "Tick Tock", then "Toys", also by Patterson  and Neil McMahon (March 14th release date). Six of McMahon's titles are owned by CWMARS libraries and include "Blood Double", "Dead Silver", "Lone Creek", "To the Bone" and "Twice Dying". Third on the list is Amy Chua's "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother". Tiger Mother is nonfiction - about extreme parenting and the catalog lists some similar titles which include "Zombie Spaceship Wasteland" by Patton Oswalt and "Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia" by Patrick Cockburn. The cover of Chua's book states: "This is the story about a mother, two daughters and two dogs. This was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better than western ones. But instead it's about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory and how I was humbled by a thirteen year old". Sounds compelling.