Fun Fridays!
December 14, 2012 at 10:58 am | Posted in Fun Fridays | Leave a commentTags: Brain Pickings, Fun Fridays, Joan Didion
Over at brainpickings.org, you can find a ton of fun stuff, including lots about books and authors. Today we thought we’d share a post on Why I Write, by Joan Didion. And of course, you can find more of her work at your library.
Fun Fridays!
December 7, 2012 at 10:29 am | Posted in Fun Fridays | Leave a commentTags: Fun Fridays, PBS Digital Studios, Reading Rainbow
I know I’ve sent you off to check out PBS’ YouTube channel before, but this one’s been making the rounds this week, and it’s a remix from one of my favourite shows, Reading Rainbow! My brother and I watched from the very first episode!
Faith
Fun Fridays!
November 30, 2012 at 10:51 am | Posted in Fun Fridays | Leave a commentTags: Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, Fun Fridays
For this fun Friday, we turn to everyone’s pal, Calvin. He’s got some strange ideas about librarians:
Fun Fridays, Holiday Edition!
November 23, 2012 at 9:46 am | Posted in Fun Fridays | Leave a commentTags: Fun Fridays, Happy Holidays
For this fun Friday, we’ve got a request. Would you please comment on this post or email infodesk@whitchurch-library.on.ca with holiday wishes in your own language? We’d like to do a project with them 😉
We’re also going to give this a try: this fantastic book tree is from Pelham Public Library, but we’re doing our own this year!
Happy Friday!
Fun Fridays!
November 16, 2012 at 10:19 am | Posted in Fun Fridays | Leave a commentTags: Fun Fridays
We think the library’s cool, but we’re also proud supporters of…geekness? Geekery? Geekdom? Whatever you want to call it, take a look at this article from the BBC about the reclaiming of “geek” and “nerd”.
Then you could check out some great videos on PBS’s YouTube channel, including all of the first season of Degrassi Junior High! (Remember that?)
Finally, just for fun on your Friday, we’ll leave you with the nerdiest bunch of all: the video that’s going viral of the Big Bang Theory cast and crew doing a flash mob to “Call Me Maybe”:
Fun Fridays!
November 2, 2012 at 9:38 am | Posted in Fun Fridays | Leave a commentTags: Christmas music, Fun Fridays
Hate to be a downer on a Fun Friday, but with the snow out there (groan), now might be a good time to check out some of the new Holiday CDs we’ve been getting in the last few weeks:
Bill and Gloria Gaither’s 12 Christmas Favourites
Cheers, It’s Christmas : Blake Shelton
Christmas Live : Kenny Rogers
Christmas Time’s a Coming : Oak Ridge Boys
Christmas with Scotty McCreery
Home for Christmas : Celtic Woman
A Very Merry Perri Christmas : Christina Perri
A Very Special Christmas : Various Performers
On This Winter’s Night : Lady Antebellum
Christmas in the Sand : Colbie Caillat
Fun Fridays!
October 26, 2012 at 9:42 am | Posted in Fun Fridays | Leave a commentTags: Fun Fridays, Halloween, Literary Man, scary books
Halloween’s just a few days away, so here’s a list of the top 10 scariest books of all time, from the Literary Man. You reading something scary to get yourself in the mood?
Fun Fridays!
October 19, 2012 at 9:54 am | Posted in Fun Fridays | Leave a commentTags: Fun Fridays, the Guardian, Tom Gauld
Tom Gauld‘s literary comics are in The Guardian’s Saturday Review:
Fun Fridays!
October 12, 2012 at 10:00 am | Posted in Fun Fridays | Leave a commentTags: Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Fun Fridays
On the first episode of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, Sagan talks about the Great Library of Alexandria:
Fun Fridays!
October 5, 2012 at 9:16 am | Posted in Fun Fridays | Leave a commentTags: Fun Fridays, Hark A Vagrant, Kate Beaton
More from Kate Beaton’s comic, Hark, A Vagrant! This time, H.G. Wells and Jules Verne:
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