Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Twilight at the Library!


Please join us for a Friday Afternoon Movie on the Big Screen, featuring the sensation TWILIGHT!

Lane Memorial Library
Lane Room
Friday, March 27, 2009
2:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Light snacks will be provided.
Please see Kirsten for details.

*Twilight is rated PG-13. Please be advised that viewers (and/or their parents) are responsible for monitoring personal age appropriateness.

Twilight is available for checkout in our 2-Day DVD collection. Look for it when you come in!

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Cooking Class with Katie Wilton

Now that Spring is officially here, April vacation is right around the corner. Have you made your plans yet? We have a great idea for kids ages 9-14! The Lane Memorial Library will be hosting a hands-on cooking class with Katie Wilton, author of You're the Cook! A Guide To Mixing It Up In The Kitchen. Kids will get to make recipes from her cookbook, including deviled eggs, pizza wantons, Parmesan pita triangles, yogurt fruit shakes, and cream cheese filled strawberries. Participants also get to sample the food!
Our Cooking with Katie class will be held in the Lane Room from 3-4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29. Participation is limited to 15 kids, so be sure to sign up soon by calling 926-4729 or stopping in the Children's Room. Ask Kirsten for details!

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Monday, March 16, 2009

The Twilight Book Club reads "'Till We Have Faces"

On Tuesday, April 7 at 6:30 PM, the Twilight Book Club will meet to discuss 'Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, by C.S. Lewis.

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses — one beautiful and one unattractive — C. S. Lewis reworks the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction. This is the story of Orual, the beautiful Psyche's embittered and ugly older sister, who believes that she loves Psyche above all else. Much to Orual's dismay, Psyche is stolen away by Cupid, the god of love himself, leading Queen Orual to set down in writing the story of her life as a lasting testimony against the cruelty of the gods.

In this last novel that the Oxford Don claimed had been germinating since he first encountered the original myth in his undergraduate days, C. S. Lewis asks a central question -- “Why must the holy places be dark places?” Setting his story against the backdrop of Glome, a barbaric, pre-Christian world, Lewis explores in his characteristically lucid fashion the eternal struggles between sacred and profane love.

"The most significant and triumphant work that Lewis has ... produced." New York Herald Tribune

Book group copies are available at the Circulation Desk. For more information, contact Darrell Eifert at deifert (at) hampton.lib.nh.us

The Twilight Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of each month, from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Dorothy Little room.

Friday, March 06, 2009

Read the book... then see the movie: The Name of the Rose


This week’s selection is The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon – all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where “the most interesting things happen at night.”


Kirkus Reviews describes the book this way: “Fueled by bookish ingenuity instead of flesh-and-blood vitality, this brilliant Borgesian-Nabokovian historical--part pageant, part whodunit--shines with a distinctly dry light: Eco is a professor of semiotics at Bologna University with a versatile style (admirably handled by translator Weaver) and an awesome knowledge of the Middle Ages.” This is not your average murder mystery!

The movie stars Sean Connery as Brother William, F. Murray Abraham, and Christian Slater in one of his first movie appearances. With a cast like that, and the lugubrious atmosphere of a 14th century monastery, this movie is bound to entertain.