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Author Elaine Fox

Beth Solka, dogs -- fiction, Fredericksburg (Va.) -- fiction, LibraryPoint Blog, Romance, Romance

04/19/2011 - 11:54am

One day several years ago I experienced the afternoon starvings, so I ran into a store to get my favorite snack—a mixture of nuts and dried fruit. My friends call it my hamster food. When I came out a gentleman was waiting beside my parked, smashed-up car. He explained that he had hit my car and had called the police. He was waiting for the police officer to show up to complete an accident report. “Okay,” I said between munches.

Soon a very tall, stern, no-nonsense woman police officer showed up to fill out an accident report. She asked me to sit in her patrol car, which I did. I was still munching happily away on my nut mixture. The police officer was looking at me suspiciously out of the corner of her eye. “Why aren’t you more upset about the accident?” she finally asked. “I don’t sweat the small stuff," I said, smiling between munches. At this point I was a little worried that she suspected my sanity. However, the truth was that I didn’t care that much about my car anyway. I wanted a new one. Munch, munch.

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CRRL Presents: Gabriel Pons and Scarlet Suhy-Pons, Two and Three-Dimensional Arts

LibraryPoint Blog, Local artists, Arts Blog, CRRL Presents, Arts and Artists

04/19/2011 - 8:20am

Debby Klein interviews Gabriel Pons and Scarlet Suhy-Pons

This interview airs beginning April 20.
Gabriel and Scarlet have caught the attention and sparked the imagination of the Fredericksburg community with their unique works of art. Gabriel’s two-dimensional creations and Scarlet’s ceramics are on display, along with the work of other local artists in their new gallery, the PONSHOP, where Debby Klein talks with them on CRRL Presents, a Central Rappahannock Regional Library production.

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The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger

Craig Graziano, Graphic novels, LibraryPoint Blog, Mercy Sais, Shelf Life Blog, Fantasy

04/19/2011 - 3:31am

The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger

The following is an email conversation between two CRRL library staff members, Craig and Mercy, about Audrey Niffenegger's graphic novel for adults, The Night Bookmobile. The Night Bookmobile "tells the story of a wistful woman who one night encounters a mysterious disappearing library on wheels that contains every book she has ever read. Seeing her history and most intimate self in this library, she embarks on a search for the bookmobile. But her search turns into an obsession, as she longs to be reunited with her own collection and memories." (Book summary)

-----Original Message-----
From: Mercedes Sais
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 5:58 PM
To: Craig Graziano
Subject: Perusal

Hey Craig,
Would you peruse The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger and tell me what you think? I am not a connoisseur of graphic novels, but this one disturbed me in its view of the reading life.

I love her Time Traveler’s Wife and was intrigued by Her Fearful Symmetry but this one...

Mercy

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Graziano
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 6:01 PM
To: Mercedes Sais
Subject: RE: Perusal

Sure Mercy, I put it on hold and will tell you what I think of it.

Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: Mercedes Sais
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:56 PM
To: Craig Graziano
Subject: RE: Perusal

Craig, let's do a duet blog with our email responses to The Night Bookmobile. What do you think?

The book says "dark" from the beginning with the title. Even the colors chosen are not primary colors often chosen for children's books so you know it's an adult novel. Plus no regular bookmobile comes late at night. Alexandra is a creature of the night.

Mercy

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