Whenever library workers chat with you about books, we try to figure out what kind of book you’ll like so we know what to recommend. We ask you a lot of questions designed to tease out certain kinds of information we call “appeal factors.” That’s fancy library lingo for “must-hav...
On the flip side, the same day we closed on our new home in Oregon (more on that another time), I also lost my job. The tech layoffs of Winter 22-23 have been a very real thing and while I’m happy to speak more on this another time, let me just say that the exaltations of...
Cue the DVD of the 1959 film “The Diary of Anne Frank“. WWII ended in Europe with the unconditional surrender of Germany in May 1945, so 14 years before the release of this film, and I was I was eight-years-old when the movie came out. I’d read Anne’s book before seeing the...
One look at my wardrobe and you’ll know that is not the case. Rather, I simply made the mistake of test driving one during an impressionable time in my life… and that experience stuck. I’m talking “instant convert”. And one of the many platitudes Iwould haveexpounded to you as ...
The Diary of Anne Frank is a non-fiction journal Lastly, for some who want to be writing reviews, you must differentiate between fiction and non-fiction books. In summary, being a reviewer takes a lot of time and practice. It entails reading from the introduction to the end, not just ta...
Balthasar de Monconys (1611–1665) was a French traveller, diplomat, physicist and magistrate, who left a diary, which was published by his son as Journal des voyages de Monsieur de Monconys, Conseiller du Roy en ses Conseils d’Estat & Privé, & Lieutenant Criminel au Siège ...
Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Dutch girl Anne Frank's diary from the Nazis to become one of the world's most-read books, died after a brief illness at the age of 100.①It was Gies who guarded Anne's diary, and presented it to the girl's father, Otto, when he returned from...
28. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”–Anne Frank,The Diary of a Young Girl 29. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers Related50 Canada Quotes That Are Pretty Good, Eh ...
More than one million children under 16 died in the Holocaust during World War II. Anne Frank was one of them. This excerpt came from her diary while hiding in the secret annex of her father’s business. She wasn’t writing a book or an important document–just a journal that kept her...
A few years ago, I went with Liz to another funeral in Lytham. I felt distinctly out of place, an intruder even, as I did not know either the deceased or his family. There was however, a rather nice buffet which, under the circumstances, I felt it was important to do justice to. ...