Tea Time

Hi friends & neighbors:

Come join us on Sunday afternoon June 1st @ 2pm to decorate the box.  We're planning on a painting and decoration event to spruce up the Whitty-Storeys library.  This will be a kid & family friendly get together.  If you have any extra kids books we can always use more.

Join us... a chance to enjoy the weather and say hello.   Bring snacky food & drinks, a picnic blanket and any creative talents to decorate.  Linda & I will also open up our garden for some flower therapy sessions.

See ya all next weekend.

Tea Time @ Whitty-Storeys Sunday June 1st @ 2pm

Finding Farley

  We had an interesting note and drop off of a book by Farley Mowat.  If you don't know Mowat one of two things apply 1) you're not a Canadian or 2) you just haven't gotten around to him.  Mowat is the Canadian story teller and Nova Scotian writer of renown on both sides of the 49th parallel.  What's somewhat unique about this little note is that today is also the day of Mr. Mowat's death.  I chuckle at this piece in the Globe & Mail describing him as:

"a ferocious imp with a silver pen, an ardent environmentalist who opened up the idea of the North to curious southerners, a public clown who hid his shyness behind flamboyant rum-swigging and kilt-flipping, and a passionate polemicist who blurred the lines between fiction and facts to dramatize his cause."

  If you aren't familiar with his writing try The Boat that Wouldn't Float, an engaging tale of sinking money and time into a leaky boat set in provincial Nova Scotia.  There's also a short movie called Finding Farley about a Canadian family's journey to meet Farley at the end of an epic canoe trip from Alberta to Nova Scotia.  Here's to Farley, his love of the woods, his call to preserve and his writings which will endure.  If you're quick there's a copy of The Snow Walker back in the box:

A note about The Snow Walker, by Farley Mowat

Book Crossings

  Recently a fellow bookie friend sent me a link to a piece in the Times about discovering a book cached in Paris.  I had thought it would be cool to figure out where the library box books travel to and it turns out that this is happening with Book Crossing.  Essentially you tag a book, set it somewhere for folks to find and then vicariously get to see where the book wanders off to. 

  Of course I couldn't resist printing off some labels and giving this concept a whirl.  I've picked a half dozen family and kid favorites that will go into the box.  Grandson Cedar and I are going to pick up copies of My Side of The Mountain and Where the Red Fern Grows and go stash them somewhere in town on one of our bike rides.  Fun Stuff!  Cheers...

P.S.  We're running low on YA & Kid's books

World Book Night

                           

Next Wednesday is World Book Night, (#WBN2014) an opportunity to share free books with light or non-readers.  I'll be joining Gertie the Book Bus out in the River Road neighborhood to give away copies of The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollen.  Drop by the Park if you're in the neighborhood and a couple copies of Pollen's book will certainly make it into the Whitty Storeys Little Free Library...   Cheers,  Stephen

Where:   Emerald Park Community Center

                1400 Lake Park Drive Eugene

When:  5-8pm, April 23^rd

What:  Free Books & Gertie the BookBus!

Book List:

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Botany of Desire by Michael Pollen

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers

Ranger's Apprentice: Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Man Booker

Thanks to whomever is passing on the Man Booker books.  I just picked up The Sea by John Banville.

Shazaam Maam!

  Cool Beans.  Headed down to the box this am to discover sixteen new books.  Someone donated ten young adult titles and six adult books.  Fun Stuff... check 'em out:

Kid's books

Big People Books

Thanks EWEB

  After the ice storm many of us have been cleaning up a bit.  Fortunately for the library the oak above the box did not sustain any damage.  EWEB did loose some branches and trees on their lot and this week sent a crew through straightening up.  The tree crew thinned out the stressed trees along Whitten and trimmed the oak tree above the library.  Nice and tidy and ready for spring.

  An interesting and eclectic set of new books in the box:  The Elegant Universe by Brian Green (Physics & Universal Theory), The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Food Safety), These is My Words, Nancy E. Turner (Historical Fiction), What is the What by Dave Eggers (so called Pseudo-Autobiography) and Baa Baa Black Sheep by Iza Trapani another kids book donation from the Friendly Park Library.

  Coming up:  I have some books to give away courtesy of World Book Night!