31 January 2013
dickj43@yahoo.com
7120 Hawthorn Avenue, NE
797-4530
Go East on Alameda .7 miles. Turn left (North) at the 4-way stop at Louisiana. Go 0.5 miles (3rd street) to Florence. Turn right. Go 0.1 mile to Palm Yucca. Turn right. Go 0.1 mile. Palm Yucca dead ends at Hawthorn. Turn right. 7120 is the 4th house on the left.
There are 17 copies in the library and lots of used copies can be found online.
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear.".
28 Feb 2013
Bob Woods
Academy at Tramway
11921 Caribou Ave., NE
(299-6928)
From Academy and Tramway,
go WEST on Academy for 3 blocks,
then take a RIGHT (North) onto Antelope Run
which deadends into Caribou.
House is in front of you,
a little to the left.
woodsR@asme.org
I waited forever to finish this book because I didn't want to end my relationship with the character, I knew I would miss him and I did - I cried at the end, without feeling manipulated.
It was a more emotional book than I anticipated, but bright, vicious, witty, honest - everything you would expect.
Only 2 copies in our Library system - order here via AbeBooks.com for many used at $3.63 shipped.
Thursday
28 March 2013
Jack Ferrell
17 Sunset Blvd
Placitas, NM
867-2242
I-25 Exit 242
East on NM 165
HARD right onto Sunset Blvd (100 yards)
17 Sunset Blvd is the second drive/house on the left after the "Private Drive--No Turn Around" sign (approximately 200 yards).
Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions.
Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world.
This novella is a work of magical realism that has a hypnotic potent voice, sprawling and engrossing coupled with violence and beauty. Will remain for a time like ancient carvings in a tree.
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011. We have seven copies of this novella in our library, and numerous other books by Denis Johnson, b. 1949. Kindle Edition, 125 pages.
25 April 2013
Ron Bousek
(262-0207)
701 Loma Linda Pl SE
Lead/Coal;
between Carlisle and Washington, take
Montclaire south
Nine copies in our Library system - as well as two large print versions. Also available is "Steinbeck Novels" (10 copies) which has 4 novels, including Cannery Row.
30 May 2013
Ken Gillen
(797-8956)
331 White Oaks Dr. NE
(From Tramway and Live Oak Rd [one block N. of Paseo del Norte], go EAST 0.6 mi on Live Oak, then SOUTH 0.3 mi on White Oaks Dr. to last house on right. Intersection of WhiteOaks and Paintbrush. Pay no attention to most of the house numbers.)
Barbara Kingsolver was a little girl of seven when she and her family left their Kentucky home to spend two years in the Congo. When she returned, the world looked totally different to her. "I understood the way we lived in my little corner of Kentucky was just that," says the author. "One little corner where we had certain things we did, possessed, believed in, but there was a great big world out there where people had no use for many of the things my community held dear. I came home with an acutely heightened sense of race, of ethnicity. I got to live in a place where people thought I was noticeable and probably hideous because of the color of my skin. These weren't easy lessons," says Kingsolver, "but they were priceless." She has not forgotten what the Congo taught her. It made her the person, the writer, she is. Our ABC Library System has six copies available, plus a large print version and an e-book. $4 used through Abebooks.com or Amazon Marketplace. 580 pages, start early! 27 June 2013
1616 Catron SE
(Take The Road into 4-Hills, turn right at the Y onto Stagecoach, left at the 4-way stop sign onto Cuatro Cerros, 2nd right onto Bernalillo, then 1st left onto Catron. About half-way down Catron, 1616 house is on the right.)
Our ABC Library System has but three copies, plus one ebook available. Check DealOz.com for paperback and hardback editions, and Amazon for e-book at $8.97.
25 July 2013
Charlie Palmer (243-4962)
1506 Park Ave SW
From I-25, go West on Central or Lomas; then South on 14th St.
Cross Central, continue 2 or 3 blocks, then turn right onto Park (1st stop sign).
July's People, by Nadine Gordimer. Only one copy in the library, but many used at Amazon for $4.00. A book of 160 pages about Africa... Some have described her writing as "challenging" (like Joyce and Faulkner) -- although in July's People she doesn't hold a candle to Faulkner in the "challenging" department...
29 August 2013
East Mountains: 51 Avenida del Sol,
Cedar Crest, NM 87008
Take N14 4.5 mi. N of I-40
(exit 175, Cedar Crest).
Turn Left into Ventana del Sol subdivision.
Follow
keypad instructions.
ob says: Usually, I pick a book I have heard good things about, but not read. In this case I started reading Cabin a month or so ago - got it cheap on Kindle - and am really taken with the first half of it. It may be a book everybody has read or possibly seen the 1927 movie or the 1987 TV movie, so the themes are well-known. Its literary quality has impressed me and surprised me, though.
Our ABC Library System has twenty (20) copies, most on the shelf, no waiting! It is available as e-book through the library as well. The library also has six different biographies of Harriet Beecher Stowe, all with two or three copies.
(265-8122) or (250-0991)
913 Parkland Circle SE
From Wyoming, go West on Zuni to Carlisle;
Go South on Carlisle until the median disappears;
(or changes drastically);
Go East;
Keith is on this street, on the North side.
"This is a short book, large font, by a New Mexico author. There are 12 copies in our ABC Library System."
Thursday
24 October 2013
21 November 2013
[Thursday before Thanksgiving]
Bob Simon
1415 Park Ave SW (246-8136)
From I-25, go West on Central or Lomas; then South on 14th St.
Cross Central, continue 2 or 3 blocks, then turn right onto Park (1st stop sign)
While in graduate school at the University of New Mexico, Mike worked during the summer as a volunteer teacher at one of the nearby pueblos. He went on to serve as President of New Mexico State University and as a visiting faculty member at West Point and President of Bermuda College. After retiring from higher education, he rekindled his love of the Southwest by writing his award-winning Pot Thief murder mysteries which combine archaeology and philosophy with humor and mystery. Only three copies of "... Escoffier" (published in 2011) exist in our ABC Library System. $11 on Amazon, used copies for $9 on DealOz.com or Amazon.
[3rd] Thursday
19 December 2013
Mike Blackledge
(294-6030)
14321 Stalgren Ct NE
(from Tramway & Copper, go East 5 blocks [counting on right], then right on Parkside, immediate left onto Stalgren Ct.)
