Reading music?

And now, like the folks from Monty Python would say, on to something different.

Was curious what music people use for reading. Which led to an equally-strange question of 'wonder what music references reading?' Here's an album that does! What are some others (feel free to leave comments/thoughts/requests)?



By the way, the Friends do accept DVDs and CD donations. Haven't seen this one yet, though.

Anchors Aweigh!

Sometimes we receive donations that are truly destined for those 'in the know.' The three books offered today at Amazon1 and featured here fit that category.

The Capstan is the yearbook of the 9th and 10th classes to graduate from the Naval Reserve Midshipman School at the University of Notre Dame. It has the previous owner's name and inscription, but is otherwise unmarked. The binding is tight.  The cover shows slight shelfwear along the bottom edge and at the spine. It is $20 at Amazon1.

Shipmates details the life of the crew of the USS Macon (CA-132) from 1945 up until her first deactivation in 1950. (She was reactivated for the Korean conflict and served into the 60's but that's another book). This is a rare volume, and is $75 on Amazon1. It is clean and tight with some wear on the corners of the cover.

The 1963-64 Yearbook of the U.S.S. Oglethorpe details her cruise in the Mediterranean that year as they were part of the fleet monitoring rising tensions off Cyprus. This book is $22 on Amazon1.

The blogger guesses that these books were probably all donated from the same source, and represent the passing of an era. We owe a debt of gratitude to these men who served so far from family and home for months, even years on end. The least we can do is to preserve their stories.

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Summer Yearnings

Today we feature another one of the summer programs (remember summer?) that Friends of Reston Regional Library underwrote for the community in 2008. In August, the Childrens Section of Reston Regional Library put on "Ice Cream for Books!" Led ably by one of Reston's enthusiastic librarians, this program pulled in children of all ages. They listened to stories, made an ice cream craft, and even a little taste of ice cream on cones was evident at the end of the program. And of course, there was a wonderful selection of 'flavors' of books about ice cream and stories featuring ice cream. It was a great way to head back to school and on a cold day in January, nice to look back upon.

Photos by Alicia Isaacs

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