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| Volume 1, No. 4 | April, 2006 | |
| The Ossining Review of Books is an online public forum to discuss what you've been reading. Its editor is Bob Minzesheimer, vice president of the library's Board of Trustees and a book reviewer for USA Today and WFUV. We welcome comments and reading recommendations. Please send to bob@ossininglibrary.org. | ||
Question of the month: British librarians were recently asked: "What's the one book every adult should read before he or she dies?" Their top recommedation was the American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's first and only novel. How would you answer that same question? Email your response to: bob@ossininglibrary.org.Last month's question:
Spring is coming. Do you have a favorite book about Spring or the theme of renewal?
It's not exactly a book, but the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Spring is the opera, Madame Butterfly. The heroine, the Japanese teenager Madame Butterfly, has been told by her faithless American naval officer husband that he will return to her when the robins build their nests again. Three years later, no husband, and she asks the American consul: "My husband promised me he would return in the happy season, when the Robin redbreasts gather for their nests. Here they have nested three times already. So I thought maybe over there (in America) they nest less frequently." That line just breaks my heart. (Anon.) |
GREAT BASEBALL BOOKSMinzesheimer is vice president of the library's board of trustees. His original ambition was to play second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. CARL SANDBURG ON THE LIGHTS OF SING SINGCelebrate National Poetry Month with a poem from Croton A LIVELY BOOK ON OBITSThe Dead Beat by Marilyn Johnson, a resident of Briarcliff ManorFIVE BOOKS FOR EARTH DAY
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The opinions expressed here are not those of the Ossining Public Library, which is serving as a clearinghouse for readers and writers to express their opinions.
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