Poetry Please

I was a geek in high school (and I probably still am one.) As proof of my geek status I offer this: one of my extracurricular activities was speech and debate. No, I wasn't on the debate team that might have approached a certain level of coolness. Instead, I did …

How Shallow Am I?

There was a hilarious essay in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review by Rachel Donadio about whether one's reading choices affect how they are perceived by others, especially in the sensitive world of dating. In other words, if you walked into a potential mate's …

Media Mixers

Welcome!

Welcome to the New & Improved Feast on Books! We got our blog off to a rather slow start, but we are now up and running full force. With a variety of staff members from various FWPL locations posting on a regular basis, be sure to check us out daily for new updates, …

Author Interview

I had the opportunity to interview New York Times and Essence magazine bestseller, an Oprah's Book Club selection and an NAACP Image Award winner author, Pearl Cleage.

She is not only a wonderful writer; she is very out going and a down to earth person. It was very easy …

Still More Books to Add to Your List

I confess. I am a compulsive list maker. One of my favorite lists to add to is my Books to Read in the Near Future list. It's a long list. Actually, it's a notebook (I got tired of keeping track of small slips of paper.)

As a librarian I am constantly exposed to great …

Secret Confession

I confess. I am a magazine reader. Maybe it is my Gen-Xer short attention span or maybe it is just my varied interests (and now my hectic life.) But I love being able to pick up a magazine and in a few spare moments grab bits of information. If I subscribed to all …

We're Spending Your Money

There was a novel that came out in English last year that I very much wanted to read: The Savage Detectives, by the late Chilean writer, Roberto Bola

March Madness

This started out as an entry about the new books we received yesterday. But then March Madness took over what few brain cells were still working on a Thursday afternoon.

Here is something my co-workers don't know about me (and probably couldn't guess in a million years). …

Thursdays

Hi, I'm the Fort Worth Public Library Multi-Media Maven. In The Amon G. Carter Multi-Media Center, we have all the cool stuff, all the movies and other stuff on DVD's, all music CD's, all the audiobooks. But, immersed in media as I am, I am also a reader of the …

Celebrando a las mujeres

Durante este mes de marzo que se celebra a las mujeres: las famosas, las pioneras, las golpeadas, las humilladas, las trabajadoras, las hijas, las madres, las escritoras, las lectoras, las todas ellas..., la biblioteca ofrece innumerables libros para leer al respecto.

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Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Science Fiction Writer, Dies

The Alphabet in Nonfiction

Here is a list of popular nonfiction titles that represent each letter of the alphabet. OOOH! Neat huh?! Click on a picture to find out where you can get a hold of the book.

Still Water Saints

Join us at the Central Library on Sunday, March 9th at 2:00 in the Teen Center Lounge as we discuss Alex Espinoza's Still Water Saints.

Perla Portillo, 72, owns the unofficial spiritual center of the Southern California Agua Mansa community: at Bot

You Probably Saw the Movie.

Just in time for Oscar...

I thought that since this years Oscar nominees are heavy with adaptations of good novels, it would only be fitting for me to create a list of books that you might have only caught the Hollywood version of. More importantly, you were doubtlessly …

Classics anyone?

Suggestions?

I'd like your suggestions for our March read for the Sunday Book Group. Read any good fiction lately that you'd like to discuss? Perhaps we could begin our discussion online in February and then meet at Central on March 9th for the wrap-up discussion....what do you think?

What Are You Reading??

I'd like to hear from some of our blog readers....what are you reading these days? Anything you'd like to share?

Best? Worst? Can't decide?

The end of each year finds lists of every kind: best this, worst that, and books are no exception. I'm always a little appalled at how few of these books I've actually read. But I still do my own little private list of books that I have particularly enjoyed the …

The Kite Runner Stumbles...

Last night I finished what has become one of the all-time best-selling novels of my reading life, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. It's a rare day when I read anything on a best-seller list, but this was the choice of the small book group I belong to and I was aware …