A Visit With Nancy Pearl

Last Thursday evening, I had the opportunity to attend a talk with and to meet Nancy Pearl. If you don't know about her, you're not in the library world! If you are a book lover, but don't yet know about her, click here to learn more.

Nancy says that if you are reading a book and not enjoying it, put it down! Life's too short, and there are many other books out there. She says that if you find yourself plodding along through a boring tome, just wanting to know who the murderer is, just turn to the last page! Don't buy into the guilt that you may feel about having to finish a book just for the sake of finishing it. She also mentioned that whether or not we like a book may depend on our mood at the time, and that every time we re-read a book, it will be a different experience, depending on where we are in our lives at that moment.

Nancy was a truly delightful, down to earth person. I feel lucky to have met her. I also want to say that I'm very excited about all of the authors that our library has on the calendar for the next year. Marc Brown (Arthur) and Laura Numeroff (If You Give a Mouse a Cookie) are two of them. The new list isn't up yet, but you can click here to see who's been here.

Here are the pictures!