October 2012
43 posts
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
—
John Green (via itsthesparkbeforethedark)
I know this feeling well.
Pew Study Discovers that People In High School and College Read →
libraries.pewinternet.org
Not only that, but Americans under 30 are more likely to read a book by choice than Americans over 30.
Adults are sitting around fretting about the Internet generation. We ought to be worrying about ourselves.
Basically, we’re the best.
-Allyx
Woohoo!
Teens' Top Ten Announced
Yalsa’s announced the Teens’ Top Ten winners:
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/sites/ala.org.yalsa/files/content/teenreading/teenstopten/2012TeensTopTenWINNERS.pdf
Some awesome picks this year!
“Who hurt you so,
My dear?
Who, long ago
When you were very young,
Did, said, became, was…something that you did not know
Beauty could ever do, say, be, become?–
So that your brown eyes filled
With tears they never, not to this day, have shed…
Not because one more boy stood hurt by life,
No: because something deathless had dropped dead–
An ugly, an indecent thing to do–
So that you stood and stared, with open mouth in which the tongue
Froze slowly backward toward its root,
As if it would not speak again, too badly stung
By memories thick as wasps about a nest invaded
To know if or if not you suffered pain.” —Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Who hurt you so” (via litverve)
My dear?
Who, long ago
When you were very young,
Did, said, became, was…something that you did not know
Beauty could ever do, say, be, become?–
So that your brown eyes filled
With tears they never, not to this day, have shed…
Not because one more boy stood hurt by life,
No: because something deathless had dropped dead–
An ugly, an indecent thing to do–
So that you stood and stared, with open mouth in which the tongue
Froze slowly backward toward its root,
As if it would not speak again, too badly stung
By memories thick as wasps about a nest invaded
To know if or if not you suffered pain.” —Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Who hurt you so” (via litverve)
Student Library Research Grant →
library.bennington.edu
Crossett Library is now accepting applications for the Student Library Research Grant. The competitively awarded grant supports students traveling to a library or archive in order to use a specific research collection. The grant provides for the reimbursement of up to $300 in travel and miscellaneous expenses associated with the research. Application forms are available in Crossett Library and on the library’s website.
