Greetings, dear blog readers! The library has recently posted a new video to our YouTube channel. This video was posted in response to another video from Keith Richards, a member of the Rolling Stones. In order to fully appreciate our video, you should first view the Richards video. To do so, please click on this link to our video; right below our video is a yellow box that says "This is a video response to Living Legends-Rolling Stones: Question to the Community." Click on this direct link to the Richards video. After you have viewed the video, you can then click the "back" button in your internet browser to return to our video response to view it. We hope you enjoy both videos. We know we did!
I feel as if I could write a book subtitled "What I've Learned From Reading Too Much" except all my lessons would be culled from Greek mythology, the Babysitters' Club, the lives of British queens, crime mysteries, suspense thrillers and celebrity and entertainment gossip. I first ran across How To Be A Heroine by Samantha Ellis in an ad in BookPage. The title sounded intriguing and once I looked it up on Amazon, I was in for reading it. It reminds me of the literacy autobiography writing assignment that I had in one of my English composition classes in college--except this is the literacy autobiography on steroids. The premise of this book is that the author revisits the seminal texts that she read in her youth by examining the lessons and impressions of the novels that she had upon her first readings when she was younger. Ellis has then re-read the novels as an adult specifically for the writing of her own book to see if the novels hold up to her original i
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