[3] When we’re coming up to the Christmas season, my wife and I spend a lot of our TV time watching Christmas-themed movies – I bet we have about dozen such films we watch every Christmastime. For this month’s Classics Reviewed blog, then, I wanted to pick something that was seasonally appropriate – but not too obvious.
[5] Riddle us this: How many librarians does it take to change a light bulb? At the Kansas City Public Library, it takes exactly zero. That’s because we’ve got folks like Operations Manager Jerry Houchins to keep the lights on, the buildings warm, and all the facilities clean and running smoothly.
[7] The recent release of Mark Twain’s uncensored autobiography [8] has set the literary world ablaze. And that excitement was in the air a few weeks ago at the Central Library, when one of the editors of Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 [9], Robert H. Hirst, came to give a presentation before a crowd of nearly 450 “Twainiacs.”
[11] What’s fantasy, you ask? There’s no single, accepted definition, but the giveaway is usually magic. Whether it’s The Lord of the Rings or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, if the world described in the book features some difference from Earth that is the result of magic or other unexplained phenomena, you’re probably holding a fantasy novel.
[13] For Garry Kasparov [14], life really does imitate chess. The top-ranked chess player in the world for nearly 22 years, Kasparov retired from international competition in 2005 and took on an even more challenging career. He entered Russian politics and became the leader of the opposition movement, playing democracy’s white against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s black.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC+Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/classics-reviewed-sir-gawain-and-green-knight
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11437#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/behind-stacks-jerry-houchins-keeps-library-humming
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11405#comment-form
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/video-night-mark-twain
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/gospel-mark-twain
[9] http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/publications.html
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11376#comment-form
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/11-best-fantasy-books-2010
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11365#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/grandmaster-garry
[14] http://www.kasparov.com/
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/grandmaster-garry#comments
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=99
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=96
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=97
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=98
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=101
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=102
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=103
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=104
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=113
