Comments on: Rallying round http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/12/rallying-round/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Mark Bondurant http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/12/rallying-round/comment-page-1/#comment-35528 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:11:40 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8361#comment-35528 It’s not the quantity of the books that’s important. A library is so much more that just novels. They provide important services to the community, such as research, cataloging community information and history, and education, especially for children, about the ways we can deal with information.

Of course, there are the novels and movies, and you can meet there too, but just donating books and staking them on the shelves is a sad gesture. They know they lost something, but they’re not sure what.

]]> By: EDWARD http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/12/rallying-round/comment-page-1/#comment-35524 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:02:50 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8361#comment-35524 FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury would be the most perfect book I can think of. But they really wouldn’t learn anything there, they have already learned that and moved beyond it. For the same reason, I would not see the need for LORD OF THE FLIES, either. Maybe it would be wise to give them a $100 gift certifcate to Barnes and Noble and let them buy their own books. The job they have done so far is beyond my imagination. I hope they have Frank Herbert’s DUNE; I am perpetually nervous about those spice worms.

]]> By: Kevin A. Lewis http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/12/rallying-round/comment-page-1/#comment-35521 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:43:02 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8361#comment-35521 Great post-I’d probably be too busy trying to get rid of the local council to think about books at the moment; chawbacon yahoos who want to send us all back to the Dark Ages seem to be all too plentiful at the moment… On second thought, let’s toss in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, shall we?

]]> By: Katie http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/12/rallying-round/comment-page-1/#comment-35520 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:34:59 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8361#comment-35520 I had to put some thought into what books I’d be willing to part with, and then I came to the realization those very books are the ones the community would need most. Here’s my short list:

1. A Slant of Sun by Beth Kephart

2. Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

3. Trouble in the Water by Nicole Seitz

4. Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

5. Jane Austen Collection (I have two – what happens when you request as a Christmas present)

There are a few others I can’t let go of, since I plan to pass them down…

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