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| Volume 2, No. 2 | February, 2007 |
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The Ossining Review of Books is an online public forum to discuss what you've been reading.
Its editor is Bob Minzesheimer, 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.
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A LIVELY BOOK ON DEATH:
The Dead Beat, by Marilyn Johnson, who lives in Briarcliff Manor.
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Come March, we'll all be dealing with a big and, one hopes, welcome change: a new library. Here are some books about coping with change.
Author of "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" - subject of the library's next book discussion, moderated by Joan Hawkins.
By Bob Minzesheimer
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Recommended by
Art Sullivan
What the Library staff is reading
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COMING ATTRACTIONS: LOCAL EVENTS FOR READERS AND WRITERS:
THE BARD AT OHS:
Ossining High School students will perform Shakespeare's classic comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, in a four-day run: Thursday, Feb. 1 at 4 pm, Friday, Feb. 2 and Saturday Feb. 3, at 7 pm , and Sunday, Feb. 4, at 2 pm. Free! At the library, check out books by and about Shakespeare as well as DVDs of the movie (with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor) and of the Cole Porter musical adaptation, Kiss Me Kate.
BOOK CHAT AND A MOVIE:
The Burns Film Center in Pleasantville hosts a Family Book Chat on Saturday, Feb. 3 at noon, after a screening of the movie version of Holes, based on Louis Sachar's award-winning novel. It's about a boy who's doomed to serve time with other kids digging holes in the desert -- until he escapes. Kids who bring a copy of the book get in free!. 747-5555. wwww.burnsfilmcenter.org.
BOOK AND A PLAY:
The Burns Film Center in Pleasantville stages an original radio play based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, on Sunday Feb. 11 at 1 p.m., followed by a discussion with the cast and director Arthur Yorinks. See www.nightkitchenradio.com or the Burns: 747-5555, www.burnsfilmcenter.org.
SUSAN CHEEVER ON THE LOVE LIVES OF ALCOTT, THOREAU & OTHER WRITERS:
Former Ossining resident and author Susan Cheever will discuss her latest book, American Bloomsbury: Louis May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work at Chappaqua Library, 195 S. Greeley Ave., on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 pm. Free. (238-4779)
CALLING ALL YOUNG POETS:
The Bronx Zoo is sponsoring a Poetry Safari Contest for poets between the ages of 8 and 13, for poems in several categories. Deadline is Feb, 23. Details at www.bronxzoo.com
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