Ms. Nancy's Library & Technology Blog

“Read a book and take a look at the TV in your head.” — O.G. Readmore What are you reading this summer? At my house, we’re reading “Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World,” Harry Potter 6 (again), “Monsterology” and a lot of other fun stuff. We are spending a lot of our […]

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This is the question posed to us by poet Mary Oliver in “The Summer Day”: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Think about that this summer while you’re reading, out in the yard, at the beach, at the park, in your living room, at the […]

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“I read because I want to know.” — anonymous

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“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity…” — A. Edward Newton What are we reading at my house? “Twilight” (Stephenie Meyer wrote the story behind Twilight, and you will also find a draft of “Midnight Sun,” the fifth book in the series), and the […]

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“Outside of a dog, a good book is man’s best friend.  Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx

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“Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.” — Goethe I am sad to tell you that my grandma passed away on Wednesday evening.  I really appreciate the good thoughts and energy so many […]

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“…do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.” — Robert Louis Stevenson A teacher friend of mine gave me a book list — it’s titled “The Best Books for Reluctant Readers,” but I think it […]

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“When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.” — Chinese proverb PS — Did I already mention that it’s National TV Turn-off Week? Now go read. — Ms. Nancy

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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” — E.B. White Looking for something to read over spring break? How about a little E.B. White (“Charlotte’s Web,” “Stuart Little,” “The Trumpet of the Swan”)? Or […]

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“Let us remember…that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both.” — Christian Wiman

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