Previously I reviewed John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise, his first volume of complete world knowledge. Now, I’ll take a moment to give more of the same praise to…I’ll take a moment to give more of the same praise to the third and final installment, That is All. Again, Hodgman provides fake historical information and hysterically terrible advice (including the necessary tools to become a deranged millionaire). In addition, he continues the page after page factoid calendar that appeared in More Information Than You Require; only this time he decides to predict the FUTURE right up to the coming apocalypse sc…
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Twentieth Century
John Barrymore and Carole Lombard star in, what some site as the first screwball comedy, Twentieth Century. The film’s director, Howard Hawks, who delivered several box office smashes in the…his life for professional reasons, he discovers that he’s madly in love with the starlet! His crusade, at times devious, to win back her favor knows no bounds. Barrymore’s portrayal of Jaffe, which is grandiose in one instant and hilariously pathetic the next, propels the story at a breakneck pace. Filled with slapstick gags and wild monologues, the actor gives one of the most memorable comedic performances committed to film….
Starting From Happy
Patricia Marx, a regular contributor to the New Yorker and a former Saturday Night Live writer, had me convulsing in fits of laughter on the sofa with her new book…mor. This storytelling device not only helps usher the plot along with vigor, it also gives the author the opportunity to deliver some sublimely meta moments. I’ll leave you with one of my favorite instances: 318. “One more question,” said Wally. “Do you think we’ll be in this book long enough for them to hear me stop pleading with you?” 319. Enough Horsing Around….
Print From Home
Forbes Library’s Mobile Print Service let you print virtually any document from your Internet connected device to the printer in the library. Print From Home Staff Mediated Staff mediated printing…le App Store PrinterOn Print Service in the Google Play Store If you can’t install the app you can: Upload your documents using our Print From Home form Send an email to our print service. Text and attachments will be printed. You will receive an email confirming that the print job has been received. At the library, you will enter the same email address used to send the print job in order to retrieve and print your documents. Black & White One-Sid…
Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board – Minutes for September 26, 2018
Minutes Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board Wed September 26 2018 3:00 PM In attendance: Ben Kalish, Rick Ely, Anne Gancarz, Lisa Downing, Stephanie Levine, Brian Tabor, Mary Jo Stanley, Dorothy…them up with one-on-one or small group instructional sessions. NVDA is now installed on all the library’s public use computers. It will soon be added to the catalog computers and instructional laptops. Anyone can sign up for an appointment for technology help. The library is happy to help whenever it can and does not limit help to just computers and e-books, so folks can ask for help with assistive technology. Anne told us that the Chicopee Librar…
One of our Thursdays is missing
Jasper Fforde’s latest offering in the Thursday Next series is a metafictional tour de farce. The original Thursday — literary police Special Operations Agent (ret.) and the star of her…uel refers back to things that happened (or didn’t) in previous titles in the series, and it might help to start with the first installment, The Eyre Affair….
The Last Days of Disco
Whit Stillman’s third feature, The Last Days of Disco, is set in New York City the early 1980’s. Here we find a group of young professionals who are all, whether…m his days hanging out at the famed Studio 54. Chris Eigeman, a Stillman mainstay, is cast as Des McGrath. McGrath is a sardonic manager at the said Manhattan club and he ultimately realizes that the owner has some sort of a shady operation going on. When viewing The Last Days of Disco, one can’t help appreciating the dedication in creating such memorable characters and the overall writing in general. The film is filled with quick and witty dialog…
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
In the latest installment of the popular No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, Mma Grace Makutsi gets married, Mma Precious Ramotswe deals with a complicated case of attacks on a farmer’s cattle, and the tiny white van takes on a metaphysical dimension. McCall Smith’s characters handle the large and small dilemmas of life with a realistic mix of (mostly) good intentions and human vulnerability. His prose is charming and the loving portrait of Bot…
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary
David Sedaris, our favorite expatriate, quirky, self-deprecating funny man, has penned a new collection of short stories. The issues and tone are certainly classic Sedaris, but this time his subjects…mor will enjoy this wonderful collection….
Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board – Minutes for May 25, 2018
Minutes Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board Friday May 25 2018, 3:30 PM Present Ben Kalish, Barbara Black, Brian Tabor, Lisa Downing, Rick Ely, Joel Dansky, MaryJo Stanley, Dorothy Baker, Marie…JAWS. Ben asked the board to consider whether the library keep JAWS after installing NVDA. The library could still have JAWS on some computers and save money by switching from a network licence to a limited number of single user licenses. Barbara suggested the library could make do with only one computer running JAWS or even none at all. Barbara stressed the importance of training for new users. West Street crossing — how to make it safer? The cr…
Coolidge and Civil Rights
Resources Regarding Calvin Coolidge’s Record on African-American Rights, Native American Rights and Immigration The Board of Trustees of Forbes Library recently renewed its commitment to “seek out and eliminate underlying…of Engraving and Printing. Cafeteria service remained segregated, in many instances, as did that last stronghold of segregation, the rest-room. The situation did improve during Coolidge’s tenure, but not so much that in mid-1928, after [Herbert] Hoover had been nominated, [NAACP Executive Secretary James Weldon] Johnson would refrain from sending the president a telegram asking him, on behalf of the NAACP, to take immediate action in abolishing r…
All He Ever Wanted: A Novel
If you like dark, involving, character-driven tales, pick up this one about a professor at a small New England college at the turn of the last century. The unlikable, perhaps…r is writing an account of his obsession with a woman he met by chance, is instantly enthralled with, and ultimately marries. I didn’t so much enjoy this very well written “memoir” as was possessed by it. As the object of the narrator’s desires, we see the female character only through the narrator’s eyes and she remains enigmatic. As is Shreve’s modus operandi there is another interlocking tale written years later called Stella Bain. Perhaps thes…
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