Monthly Archives: October 2020

More Monk on Ken Burns Jazz (Episode 8:Risk) on Kanopy.

Music Minute:  John Ono LennonJohn Lennon was in a band called the Quarreymen. Then he met a kid called McCartney. The rest, as they say, was history.  Read all about it in The Beatles by Bob Spitz, or watch The … Continue reading →

Jill Ker Conway 10/9), who grew up in the Australian outback, became the first woman president of Smith College.  Her memoirs, beginning with The Road from Coorain, track her journey. 

Browne (10/9) was the quintessential post-hippie California singer songwriter, with numbers like   Running on Empty and Take it Easy.  

In the Dune series, Frank Herbert (10/8) mixed ecology and politics as factions of a planetary empire fight for the control of a vital element.

Fall into Reading at the Nichols Library The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett is set in the Dark Age before The Pillars of the Earth. In the midst of clashing kings and Viking raids, a monk dreams of … Continue reading →

John Mellancamp (10/7), inventing heartland rock (1983). Also in ’83, a guitar whiz named Eddie (r.i.p.).

The late Anita Shreve (10/7/1946-3/29/2018), who probed the mysteries of the human heart in novels like The Pilot’s Wife, The Weight of Water and A Change in Altitude.  Copies of her stories are available in print, CD, and downloadable formats. Speaking of downloads, here are the most recent audio and ebooks purchased … Continue reading →

In The book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult, a women survives an accident and recovers to a world of competing possibilities, to return home or pursue a long buried dream. In Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, eight hostages of … Continue reading →

Pay a visit to Yorkshire with vet and story-teller James Herriot (10/3).