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.