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All are welcome to the Cherrydale Branch Library book club discussion of Pride and Prejudice, on Monday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m.
- Cherrydale Book Club Discusses "pearl Buck In China"
All are welcome to join the discussion of Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth by Hilary Spurling at the Cherrydale Branch Library on Monday, Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m. "Penetrating. . . Ms. Spurling writes well, and with real feeling. . . The resulting...
- Discuss The Help At Cherrydale - Sept 12
Please join us for a discussion of Kathryn Stockett's The Help on Monday, Sept. 12 at the Cherrydale Branch Library. "Southern whites' guilt for not expressing gratitude to the black maids who raised them threatens to become a familiar...
- Photos By Greg Embree On Display At Cherrydale
This winter the Cherrydale Branch Library exhibits "Across China and Tibet," a collection of recent photographs taken by Greg Embree. Embree is a long time resident of the Cherrydale neighborhood, and a volunteer at the Cherrydale Library....
- The Arlington Years: Library Wins Abbie Award For "best Place To Learn Something New"
The Arlington YearsThoughts From County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh It was announced at today's County Board Meeting that Arlington Public Library was voted "Best Place to Learn Something New" in the 2009 Arlington's...
- Sensory Fiction: Transforming Reading The Way Sound Transformed Silent Film
"Sensory fiction" allows the reader to experience the protagonist's world as she does, with the help of a wearable vest that simulates, among other things, heartbeats and shivers. "The 'augmented' book portrays the scenery and...
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Cherrydale discusses "Pride and Prejudice"
All are welcome to the Cherrydale Branch Library book club discussion of Pride and Prejudice, on Monday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. "Yes, some of the dialogue may seem a bit stilted to today's reader, and some early-19th-century usages need explanation ("condescension," for example, which occurs frequently herein, then meant "graciousness" or "courtesy"), but when one considers that it was first published in 1813, its depiction of relations between women and men and of middle-class manners will strike today's reader as far less old-fashioned than would be expected. It was a period when marrying for money and position was beginning to be supplanted by marrying for love, so on the one hand today's reader will be taken aback by the incessant chatter about marriages predicated on money or denied because of social position, but on the other hand Elizabeth and Darcy approach each other as near-equals in ways that will seem very familiar to today's reader." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post, July 2009.Contact Suzanne Embree at [email protected] for more information.
- Cherrydale Book Club Discusses "pearl Buck In China"
All are welcome to join the discussion of Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth by Hilary Spurling at the Cherrydale Branch Library on Monday, Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m. "Penetrating. . . Ms. Spurling writes well, and with real feeling. . . The resulting...
- Discuss The Help At Cherrydale - Sept 12
Please join us for a discussion of Kathryn Stockett's The Help on Monday, Sept. 12 at the Cherrydale Branch Library. "Southern whites' guilt for not expressing gratitude to the black maids who raised them threatens to become a familiar...
- Photos By Greg Embree On Display At Cherrydale
This winter the Cherrydale Branch Library exhibits "Across China and Tibet," a collection of recent photographs taken by Greg Embree. Embree is a long time resident of the Cherrydale neighborhood, and a volunteer at the Cherrydale Library....
- The Arlington Years: Library Wins Abbie Award For "best Place To Learn Something New"
The Arlington YearsThoughts From County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh It was announced at today's County Board Meeting that Arlington Public Library was voted "Best Place to Learn Something New" in the 2009 Arlington's...
- Sensory Fiction: Transforming Reading The Way Sound Transformed Silent Film
"Sensory fiction" allows the reader to experience the protagonist's world as she does, with the help of a wearable vest that simulates, among other things, heartbeats and shivers. "The 'augmented' book portrays the scenery and...