Best Thing About Book Clubs

I am sure you already know the great things about being in a book club, but over at Buzzfeed they compiled a list of the 16 Best Things About Being in a Book Club with pictures of cats and things. My favorite being #16, "And defending your book club to anyone who dares to make fun of you." Truer words have never been spoken.

Are you in a book club, or have you ever been? Maybe it's time you start on here at the Paris Public Library. We can help you do it! (Minus the wine, of course.) 

Some Amazing Pumpkins

These are designs I've actually never seen before! How great! What are you going to (or have already) carve this year? I am thinking either Spiderman's face or a Ninja Turtle head. Decisions, decisions...

New Catching Fire Stills

Entertainment Weekly recently released three all new stills from the upcoming movie Catching Fire. In Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games. As the winning tributes, they must embark on a “Victor’s Tour” of the districts. While out, they begin to sense that rebellion is on the verge of boiling over as the Capitol prepares for the 75th Annual Hunger Games.

Alice Munro Wins the Nobel!

"Alice Munro, the renowned Canadian short-story writer whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility of memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday." 

Hurrah! Alice Munro is such a brilliant author, we are so pleased for her. Have you ever read anything by Alice Munro? Her short stories are beautiful. 

Here is the link for the full New York Times article. 

Back to Basics

New Arrivals!!

September 15th - September 31st

Now You Have No Excuse

I personally like "I beg a thousand pardons the little Asian kid from Indiana Jones kept telling me knock knock jokes." I bet it would work. You're welcome.

Sodium Joke

Okay, that's the last science joke. Maybe...

Cat Laser Research

I am not one to dislike a cat t-shirt of any kind. But a cat t-shirt that features a cat as a physicist? YES PLEASE. Thank you ThinkGeek, as always.

Pokemon Type

I am Fire (normal), sooo Charmander! Yay! Which are you?