ANNUAL MEETING

REMINDER!

The Annual Meeting of Friends of the Reston Regional Library will be at 6 p.m. next Wednesday, May 20 at the library. We will elect officers for the next year. Please feel free to join us, whether you're a Friend yet or not! If you'd like to vote, you'll need to become official, but if you'd just like to observe, you're welcome to do so.  The Library is located at 11925 Bowman Towne Dr, Reston, VA.

Let's Cook!

The Friends of Reston Regional Library and the wonderful Staff of Reston Regional Library (some of whom wear both hats) are putting together a cookbook. This is a call for recipes from our supporters and friends! We are particularly interested in ethnic and vegetarian recipes. If you would like to participate, please e-mail the recipe to us. Be sure to give us your name so we can put it in the cookbook with your recipe.

Our target date to have the cookbook available for purchase is the fall sale (end of September). We will keep the cost reasonable, and the recipes delicious. The blogger has been to the annual picnic put on by the staff of Reston Regional and can certify that there are some awesome cooks working in our library!

If you don't cook, but you do eat, give us one of your favorites that you enjoy eating! Questions, comments? E-mail us or comment on the blog!

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Birthdays and Summer Reading

When we go to our Amazon storefront, it is difficult to decide which books to feature because there are over 500 there! So here is a selection to give you a taste. But if you don't see anything that catches your interest, go to the site anyway. Browsing may reveal just the perfect thing for you. Let us know what you find!

If you need a beach read, and you live in the Washington area, this is the book to pick up. Written by a local, it captures what most of us only suspect is lurking beneath the surface of our metro-area, orderly (if rushed) lives. Are each of us really only a couple of degrees of separation from enough power to destroy or enhance a career? What about a nation's security? The Cellomaker, by Jean Werner, is worth taking a look at. A paperback for $15 at Friends1.

Speaking of layers within layers and things with more than one meaning, A Journey of the Imagination: The Art of James Christensen, is a beautiful hard-cover book currently at our Friends1 site for $14. Published in 1995, it is still a favorite among students and teachers of graphic design and illustration. The reviews on Amazon are almost (one exception) uniformly outstanding with people from many different walks of life praising it. If you have an artist friend with a birthday coming up, this might be the perfect choice!

Birthdays are a big event for some people. If you know someone born in 1958 for whom you'd like to find the perfect gift, here it is! What a Year It Was: 1958, is a hardcover memory book in scrapbook format. What a fun shared family activity this would be to go through. The blogger's kids have a hard time believing that Jim Crow laws existed in their parents' lifetime -- much less that people actually built bomb shelters in their back yards. A book like this might convince them that it wasn't just their own parents who were "strange." This is $14 at Friends1 and includes a video CD of 1958 Flashbacks!

And finally, 1001 Foods You Must Taste Before You Die, is available for $21 at Friends1. This book doesn't really need a description -- but there are some fun reviews of it on Amazon. It is $21.

As always, current Friends of Reston Regional Library can save postage by e-mailing us to purchase these books directly.

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