Jolly boating weather?: Readings for a sunny weekend

Need a book to take with you to relax in the park this weekend? Look no further. All of these are available at the Loyola/Notre Dame Library, and may also be available at the Enoch Pratt Free Library (don't forget, you can have them delivered to the branch nearest you!) or your local public library system.

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A move in the weather (poems), by Anthony Thwaite
PR6070.H9 M68 2003

• For more on Anthony Thwaite, take a look at his bio on The Poetry Archive.
  

Calm weather; a volume of essays, by Gilbert Oliver Thomas
PR6039.H58 C3 1966

Heavy weather, by P. G. Wodehouse
PR6045.O53 H4

• Take a look at some reader reviews on Goodreads.com.
  

Ethel Waters: Stormy weather, by Stephen Bourne
ML420.W24 B68 2007

• Hear a recording of Ethel Waters performing "I Got Rhythm" on the PBS website for Ken Burns' film Jazz.
  

Sailing alone around the room: new and selected poems, by Billy Collins
PS 3553 .O47478 S25 2001

• Learn more about Billy Collins at The Poetry Archive.
  

Blue is hot, red is cool: choosing the right color for your logo, editor David E. Carter.
NK1548 .B55 2001


Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees
Swing, swing together
With your body between your knees.

William Cory, “Eton Boating Song,” from The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation. Reference PN6080 .O945 1997

Hot Hot Heat: Readings for an Air-Conditioned Existence

As the Maryland summer starts to heat up, we'll all start to look towards more indoor activities. With that in mind, we’ll continue with the non-required reading (and viewing, and listening) suggestions to consider when you're tired of reality TV reruns and you've seen all the Law & Order episodes ever filmed.

All of these are available at the Loyola/Notre Dame Library, and may also be available at the Enoch Pratt Free Library (don't forget, you can have them delivered to the branch nearest you!) or your local public library system.

Click through to see if it’s currently available at LNDL.

The complete Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, by Louis Armstrong
Media CD 0991

• Check out the Amazon.com Editorial Review for more (scroll down on the page).

Some like it hot, directed by Billy Wilder
Starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe
Media PN1997 .S646373 2006

• Take a look at the DVDTown review of this re-release.

Why some like it hot: food, genes, and cultural diversity, by Gary Paul Nabhan
QH431 .N28 2004

• Check out the editorial reviews from Publisher's Weekly and the Washington Post's Book World on Amazon.com.

Hot shots: an oral history of the Air Force combat pilots of the Korean War, edited by Jennie Ethell Chancey and William R. Forstchen
DS920.2.U5 H67 2000

• Editorial reviews from Booklist and Publisher's Weekly are available on Amazon.com.

Hot potato: how Washington and New York gave birth to Black basketball and changed America’s game forever, by Bob Kuska
GV885.73.W18 K87 2004

• Read the Publisher's Weekly review on Amazon.com.

You might also want to check out music from Hot Hot Heat, a band from Victoria, British Columbia.

Non-Required Reading: The Fabric of the Cosmos

Facing a long plane ride later this summer, or need something to keep you occupied before summer classes start? Some of us here thought we'd share recommendations for some recent reads and perennial favorites. Today, Research & Instruction Librarian/Web Support Specialist John Breitmeyer makes a recommendation.

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by Brian Greene

The Fabric of the Cosmos popularizes science -- specifically physics -- in a manner somewhat reminiscent of efforts made by Carl Sagan and other (good) science writers to reach and educate the general public. By a kind of prose miracle, it's entirely math-free, although Greene is frequently obliged to refer to the difficult mathematics underlying various physical theories in a "trust me--the math bears this out" sort of way. However, his presentations are clear and convincing, and he succinctly, and excitingly, conveys a sense of the historical controversies and progress in physics to the layperson.

Greene manages to engagingly and clearly summarize over three hundred years of physics (it begins with Newton), and at the same time convey the vertiginous sense of wonder that comes from discovering how deeply strange and mysterious the universe is.

Get it at our library, or from the Enoch Pratt Free Library or your public library at home, wherever that may be.

Non-Required Reading: Short takes

Facing a long plane ride later this summer, or need something to keep you occupied before summer classes start? Some of us here thought we'd share recommendations for some recent reads and perennial favorites. Today, two librarians share short takes on some books read in the last few months.

Joanne Hélouvry
Head of Research & Instruction Services

With gas prices going up and organic foods abounding, I would recommend Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. Just be careful not to be sucked into the guilt that I felt when eating asparagus in November. Request it from Hood, and have it delivered right to LNDL!

Philip Fryer
Digital Media Librarian

I recently helped Dr. Pat Dwyer perfect slides for a presentation on assessment of education, and that brings to mind Jonathan Kozol's The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. The book is really a sequel to his earlier work, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools and is as dismaying as it is well-written and researched. Check out our copy of The Shame of the Nation (LC212.62 K69 2005) or Savage Inequalities (LC4091 .K69 1991).

Of course, you can also check these out from the Enoch Pratt Free Library or your public library at home, wherever that may be.

Non-Required Reading: Empire Falls

Facing a long plane ride later this summer, or need something to keep you occupied before summer classes start? Some of us here thought we'd share recommendations for some recent reads and perennial favorites. Today, Digital Access Librarian Danielle Whren makes a recommendation.

Empire Falls
by Richard Russo

Russo's Pulitizer Prize-winning novel is a look in time at a small, blue-collar town in Maine. Through the eyes of protagonist Miles Roby, the reader sees the people of the town and how they all got where they are now. Russo's excellent character development allows the reader to truly experience the lives of the people living in Empire Falls.

Get it at our library, or from the Enoch Pratt Free Library or your public library at home, wherever that may be.