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June 05, 2007
It's all about Books!
Darien Library bloggers attended Book Expo this past weekend where we snatched up signed books for our Adult Summer Reading Program and collected advanced readers copies to spread the word about upcoming sleeper best sellers.
A highlight for me was a Recorded Books (audio book publisher) event that featured Pulitzer Prize winning authors Jane Smiley and Michael Dirda. Jane and Michael were charming to talk with and delightful speakers and the event was just a wonderful, intimate, respite from all the crowds at the Javits Center.
Jane Smiley’s new book, Ten Days in the Hills, is wonderfully bawdy Hollywood novel filled with an incredible cast of characters and written with wit and insight. Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda’s biography, An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland, tells the story of growing up in Lake Erie steel town in the fifties. He had a passion for books which didn’t quite sit well with his family of steel workers. His latest book, Book by Book: Notes on the Reading Life, will inspire anyone to go back and read or reread the classics.
Trivia fact: Michael has worked as a book reviewer for the Washington Post for as long as our Louise Parker Berry Fellow has lived on this earth! When Michael gave the month and year he started at the Post, Emily leaned over to me and whispered, “his career is my life.”
Posted by MaryF at June 5, 2007 11:19 AM