Farmington Library Adult Blog

Tea Cups Display

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:08:00 PST

To view the tea cup display, make your way to aisle 19 on the 2nd floor and enjoy.

Action Movie Wednesdays!

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:03:00 PST

Come join us for "Action Movie Wednesday" starting Wednesday, January 11th at 12:00 noon with "Run Silent, Run Deep" and in the weeks to come more action packed films such as "The Hunt for Red October," "Crimson Tide," "Submarine X-1," "K-19 - The Widowmaker" and more - don't miss the action!

Candidate Lit

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:22:00 PST

Even though we are more than ten months away from November, the presidential election seems to be everywhere but if you are looking for more the library has a great selection of Candidate Lit.

Here are few books in NO particular order:

Museum Passes @ the Library

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:35:00 PST

Looking for something to do over the holiday break but don’t want to spend a lot of money? Why not visit a local museum using a pass from the Farmington Library!

The passes offer free or reduced admission to area museums such as Wadsworth Athenaeum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Imagine Nation Museum, The Children's Museum, and Connecticut Science Center.

For a complete list of participating museums and details for each pass, click here.

Even if you have visited the museum before, the exhibits are always changing and have something new to offer and nice to revisit. Passes can be reserved in advance by Farmington residents using your library card.

Practical Cookbooks

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:00:00 PST

Food and the art of cooking have become wildly popular over the past few years. The library’s collection of cookbooks is growing to meet the demands of the kitchen novice to the expert chef. Two new books in the collection are David Rocco’s Made in Italy and Good Bite Weeknight Meals: Delicious Made Easy.

Good Bite Weeknight Meals is based on the food blogging website goodbite.com. It is a collection of 140 recipes that are quick and easy and that use ingredients that most people have in the house. The recipes are simple to follow and require little more than 30 minutes- perfect for weeknight cooking. The book is organized into eight chapters covering poultry, meat, seafood, pasta, vegetarian, soups, and side dishes.

Made in Italy is filled cover to cover with sexy pictures of food and Italy- perhaps you will recognize him from the show DolceVita. While this cookbook sits on the edge of being a photo easy of his travels and of the delicious food in Italy, it does let the reader almost taste and smell the flavors on each page. The ingredients are recognizable and recipes appear to be forgiving enough to let a weekend chef create culinary masterpieces.

Best Literary Sleuths?

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:22:00 PST

The British Guardian newspaper names what it considers the best literary sleuths. Heavily British by nature, the list, nonetheless, should introduce you to new characters and hours of reading pleasure...
Character and Author
Chief Inspector Hubbard - Frederick Knott
William of Baskerville - Umberto Eco
John Rebus - Ian Rankin
Smilla Qaaviqaaq Jaspersen - Peter Hoeg
Nicky Welt - Harry Kemelman
Arkady Renko - Martin Cruz Smith
Endeavour Morse - Colin Dexter
Lincoln Rhyme - Jeffery Deaver
The Continental Op - Dashiell Hammett
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

Hottest book club books in November 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:41:00 PST

1. Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
2. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford
5. The Paris Wife: A Novel by Paula McLain
6. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
7. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
8. The Kitchen House: A Novel by Kathleen Grissom
9. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
10. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

An editor's best of 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:39:00 PST

At the end of the year we get a several "Best of" lists. Here is one from an email newsletter I subscribe to. (Email us, if you want us to purchase any of these books, of course!)

A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans by W. Bruce Cameron (Forge Books)
The Affair by Lee Child (Delacorte Press)
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan (Knopf)
Sookie Stackhouse 8-volume boxed set by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton by Jeff Pearlman (Gotham)
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman (Ace)
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch (Harper)
What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes (Atlantic Monthly)
Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet (Minotaur Books)

Books about Tiny People

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:53:00 PST

Conn Iggulden compiled has compiled a list for the Guardian about the best books about the wee folk...

Truckers, Diggers and Wings by Terry Pratchett
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Mistress Masham's Repose by TH White
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
The Littles by John Peterson
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Tom Thumb
The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett
Napoleon by Vincent Cronin

Holidays 2nd floor display

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:43:00 PST

Celebrate the holidays. Displays are up for all the winter holidays at the library.

Making Merry at The Library!

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:21:00 PST

Come and browse our seasonal books, DVD's, CD's and more

NY Times Best 10 Books

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:25:00 PST

The Times has released its best 10 books of 2011. Link to the library's catalog to place your holds on the library's copies.

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown)
11/22/63 by Stephen King (Scribner)
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (Knopf/Vintage Contemporaries)
Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson (Ecco)
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht (Random House)
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve)
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son by Ian Brown (St. Martin's)
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (Viking)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman (Random House)

10 Really Good TV Shows Adapted from Books

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:40:00 PST

We've all seen movies adapted from books, here are some great examples of TV shows adapted from books courtesy of Flavorwire...

M*A*S*H --- based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker
Dexter --- based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Friday Night Lights --- adapted from a 1990 non-fiction book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
Game of Thrones --- from George R.R. Martin’s series of which A Game of Thrones is the first
I, Claudius --- the 1976 adaptation of the Robert Graves novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God was one of BBC’s most successful drama series
Gossip Girl --- based on a series of books by Cecily von Ziegesar
Brideshead Revisited --- a miniseries of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 masterpiece
Roots --- based on Alex Haley’s 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an bAmerican Family
Roswell --- based on the YA series Roswell High
Sex and the City --- based on the 1997 collection of essays by Candace Bushnell

Everything Monroe (not the president)

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:26:00 PST

The Guardian presents 10 titles about the famous maven, Ms. Monroe (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/16/michel-schneider-top-10-marilyn-monroe-books)

Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold
Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
Marilyn, Mon Amour by Andre de Dienes
Hollywood on the Couch by Stephen Farber and Mark Green
On Loving, Hating and Living Well by Ralph Greenson
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O'Hagan
Marilyn Monroe by Barbara Leaming
My Story by Marilyn Monroe
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography by Donald Spoto

10 Books about Las Vegas

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:47:00 PST

The Guardian of London has published 10 books about Las Vegas here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/nov/16/top-10-books-las-vegas)

Some of the titles...
John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas
Joe McGinniss Jr, The Delivery Man
Larry McMurtry, The Desert Rose
Charles Bock, Beautiful Children
James Ellroy, The Cold Six Thousand

Our additions from library staff...
Fern Michaels, Vegas Romance series
The International Association of Crime Writers presents Murder in Vegas : , new crime tales of gambling and desperation
Janet Evanovich, To The Nines
William Bernhardt, Dark Eye
Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat In An Indigo Mood : A Midnight Louie Mystery /
Barbara Samuel Lady Luck's Map of Vegas

Best 2011 Books from Amazon

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:33:00 PST

Let the best books of 2011 race commence...Amazon.com fires up first...

Amazon.com Top 20 Books:

In the Garden of Beasts; Erik Larson
The Marriage Plot: A Novel; Jeffrey Eugenides
Daughter of Smoke and Bone; Laini Taylor
The Art of Fielding: A Novel; Chad Harbach
Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin
What It Is Like to Go to War; Karl Marlantes
Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel; S.J.Watson
Steve Jobs; Walter Isaacson
Lost in Shangri-La; Mitchell Zuckoff
The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel; Tea Obreht
The Night Circus; Erin Morgenstern
Bossypants; Tina Fey
Blood, Bones & Butter; Gabrielle Hamilton
We the Animals: A Novel; Justin Torres
Moonwalking with Einstein; Joshua Foer
The Lover’s Dictionary: A Novel; David Levithan
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris; David. G. McCullough
Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel; Russell Banks
Maphead: Charting the Wide . . . ; Ken Jennings
The Sisters Brothers: A Novel ; Patrick deWitt

Mystery and Thrillers:

Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel; S.J. Watson
Reamde: A Novel; Neal Stephenson
Feast Day of Fools: A Novel; James Lee Burke
11/22/63: A Novel; Stephen King
Sister: A Novel; Rosamund Lupton
A Trick of the Light; Louis Penny
The Most Dangerous Thing; Laura Lippman
The Night Strangers; Chris Bohjalian
Turn of Mind; Alice LaPlante
The Affair; Lee Child

Literature and; Fiction:

The Cat’s Table; Michael Ondaatje
Please Look After Mom; Kyung-Sook Shin

Nonfiction:

What It is Like to Go to War; Karl Marlantes
A History of the World in 100 Objects; Neil MacGrego
The Information History; James Gleick
The Great Sea: A Human History; David Abulafia
Those Guys Have All The Fun; James Andrew Miller

Debut Fiction:

The Art of Fielding; Chad Harbach
The Tiger’s Wife; Tea Obreht
The Night Circus; Erin Morgenstern
We The Animals: A Novel; Justin Torres
The Submission: A Novel; Amy Waldman
Rules of Civility: A Novel; Amor Towles
Ten Thousand Saints: A Novel; Eleanor Henderson
Swamplandia; Karen Russell
22 Britannia Road: A Novel; Amanda Hodgkinson
The Weird Sisters; Eleanor Brown

Quirky and; Strange:

Awkward Family Pet Photos; Mike Bender
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick; Chris Van Allsurg
The Moustache Grower’s Guide; Lucien Edwards
Go the F**k to Sleep; Adam Mansbach
Post-it Note Diaries: 20 Stories; Arthur Jones
420 Characters; Lou Beach
The Lover’s Dictionary; David Levithan

Halloween Horror Reads

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:01:00 PDT

Flavorwire has listed 10 terrifying tales for your horror reading pleasure. Click here for more details.

Books listed with links to our catalog:
The Beach, Alex Garland
Room, Emma Donoghue
Coin Locker Babies, Ryū Murakami (Click of State Catalog link to get book sent to our library)
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Battle Royale, Koushun Takami (Click of State Catalog link to get book sent to our library)
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo

Best Plane Crash Books

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:01:00 PDT

Chris Bohjalian lists his favorite plane crash books and why here.

Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale
The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Fly by Wire by William Langewiesche
Highest Duty by Chesley B. Sullenberger

Best "Cliff"-hangers from the Guardian

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:49:00 PDT

Jeff Mullen mulls the best literary cliffs in literature here. Linked titles are in the library.

King Lear by William Shakespeare
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
"The Child on the Cliffs" by Edward Thomas
The Second Form at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
"House on a Cliff" by Louis MacNeice
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
"The Cornish Cliffs" by John Betjeman
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

Bios of Famous Men

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:28:00 PDT

Read this post from Shelf Awareness : Further Reading: Bios of Famous Men...Great reviews of classic bios of founding fathers.

Several titles mentioned in this post are available at the library.

American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America by David O. Stewart
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Thomas Jefferson: A Life by Willard Sterne Randall

National Book Award Finalists Announced

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:52:00 PDT

Fiction:
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obrecht (Random House)
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (Knopf)
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury USA)
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue Literary Press)
Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman (Lookout Books)

Nonfiction:
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker (Graywolf)
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel (Little, Brown)
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (Norton)
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (Viking)
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss (It Books)

Poetry:
Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney (TriQuarterly)
The Chameleon Couch by Yusef Komunyakaa (FSG)
Double Shadow by Carl Phillips (FSG)
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich (Norton)
Devotions by Bruce Smith (University of Chicago Press)

Young People's Literature:
My Name Is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson (Marshall Cavendish)
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (HarperCollins)
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Chime by Franny Billingsley (Dial Books)
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books)
Shine by Lauren Myracle (Amulet Books)

Man Booker Prize Shortlist

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:13:00 PDT

The British literary prize has released its shortlist.

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
Snowdrops by A.D. Miller

From Shelf Awareness

2011 Hugo Awards

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:14:00 PDT

These annual Science Fiction awards were presented in Reno, NV

Best Novel: Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
Best Novella: The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
Best Novelette: "The Emperor of Mars" by Allen M. Steele
Best Short Story: "For Want of a Nail" by Mary Robinette Kowal
Best Related Work: Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O'Shea
Best Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse by Phil and Kaja Foglio; art by Phil Foglio; colors by Cheyenne Wright
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Inception written and directed by Christopher Nolan
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who: "The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang" written by Steven Moffat; directed by Toby Haynes

From Shelf Awareness...

NAIBA Books of the Year

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:01:00 PDT

The NAIBA Books of the Year, chosen by members of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association, are:

Fiction: The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
Nonfiction: Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
Trade Paperback Original: Extra Indians by Eric Gansworth
Picture Book: Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown
Middle Readers: Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
Children's Literature and YA: Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

Click on the title to place a hold or email us to have us obtain any title we don't own.

From shelf Awareness

Hell Is Empty

noreply@blogger.com (Farmington Libraries since 1901) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:22:00 PDT

Title: Hell is Empty
Author: Craig Johnson
ISBN: 9780670022779

Excellent mystery novel from a native Wyoming writer. No lack of suspense, Indians or the cold of the Bog Horn Mountains. this no