06.19.2017 Community By the Book: Head to the beach with a great book There aren’t too many things more pleasant than sitting on the beach reading a book. It could be a Mary Higgins Clark or a John Sanford “Prey” book; it...
04.20.2017 Community By the Book: Bryson’s snapshot of 1927 summer Here’s one that nearly got away. I’d read a couple of Bill Bryson’s books and decided to pass on “One Summer: America, 1927.” Then, thankfully, my book club picked...
07.13.2012 Community Book Column: What’s the deal with working so hard? Imagine that there is a science fiction book by someone like Robert Heinlein or Arthur C. Clarke that posits a distant planet where thousands of scientists from a hundred...
06.08.2012 Community By the Book: Why some vowels are weird and wonderful Remember learning the vowels, A, E, I, O and U, with the teacher inevitably adding “ … and sometimes Y and W”? Well, I’ve come up with 16 impressive...
05.06.2012 Community By the Book: Tuning in to what nature has to say We have an old copy of ‘Petersen’s Field Guide to the Birds.’ We’ve spotted most of the usual suspects, and also have seen some unusual ones. An American kestrel...
04.21.2012 Community By the Book: Novel ways to enjoy communal books April may well be the cruelest month: Fighting season begins again as the mountain passes thaw in Afghanistan, tornadoes rampage throughout the Midwest, taxes must be paid and we...
04.06.2012 Community Book Column: After 11 years, club’s still OK in his book Once a month 25 to 30 people sit around a big, square table at Southold Free Library and talk about a book they just read. All but six are...
03.23.2012 Community By the Book: Keeping up as the book world changes Birds do it every year, this spring migrating thing, with its accompanying twittering racket. Public librarians do it once every two years at the Public Library Association conference, this...
03.02.2012 Community By the Book: Of ducks, detectives and whaling disasters On Jan. 10, 1992, 500 miles south of Attu Island, a cargo ship labored in a storm that was generating 35-foot waves. As the ship pitched and yawed 12...
02.18.2012 Community Book Column: A novel way of thinking about time What if books, or novels anyway, are like wristwatches? They tell time. There are Rolexes and Piagets out there among the novels, finely crafted, beautifully designed, precious works of...
