This week on Books for Breakfast, we continued our campaign to save the Guelph Bookmobile by sitting down for an interview with Chief Librarian Kitty Pope. She liked us (and our campaign) so much that she invited us to ride along in the Bookmobile as it makes its rounds - so look for that piece in the near future! We also reannounced our new contest: a contest to write the first line of a story. We talked about what makes a good first line and Kelly and Dan had a "first line off." Points were awarded after comparing two first lines. This competition was judiciously judged by Peter, who jumped in unexpectedly with his own first line in the last round and ensured that everyone earned a point. We introduced a new segment called "60 Second Reviews" and each tried our hand at reveiwing a book in just one minute (How to Write a Sentence, Late Nights on Air, the Curfew). We played Peter's LP game and heard some great music. It was an action-packed morning and you can catch it all by clicking on the links below.
Hear here:
Today we talk about:
Soseki Natsume’s “I am a Cat”
Anthropomorphizing Animals
Andrea & Carolyn Beck – “The Waiting Dog”
Paul Auster’s “Timbuktu”
Bob Wiseman @ the Musagetes Event: 1Mile2
Mary Mattingly
1970s Sci-Fi Novels
Bookmobile is in jeopardy
Kitty Pope & the GPL
Library Design
Alexandria Library
Coming Soon: Bumble-Ardy by Maurice Sendak
Also Coming Soon: The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories by Dr Seuss
Posthumous Vonnegut
Jean Auel “The Land of the Painted Caves”
I woke up in Boone, North Carolina…” Winners
Clark Blaise
What does “Frangible” mean?
We held duels between first sentences in stories by Stephen Chbosky, AJ Somerset, Nicole Krauss, Stefan Zweig, JM Coetzee, and Paul Auster.
Stanley Fish “How To Write a Sentence”
And we did 60 second reviews of Elizabeth Hay‘s Late Nights on Air and Jesse Ball‘s The Curfew. We’ll write those up sometime soon.
And we heard some songs:
Bob Wiseman – The Henry Moore Room
Daniel, Fred, and Julie – No One Knew My Name
Caleb Klauder – Satisfied Mind
Chain & the Gang – Youth Is Wasted on the Young
Tuneyards – Doorstep
White Wires – Goodbye Girl
Women – Grey Skies
Bruce Peninsula / Muskox – Shanty Song
Alela Diane – Long Way Down
Books For Breakfast 