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The surprising benefits of reading before bed

The Surprising Benefits of Reading Before Bed

The Surprising Benefits of Reading Before Bed We’re all commitment phobes. We scan, we skim, we browse, but rarely do we read. Our eyes pingpong back and forth from Facebook posts to open chat boxes, unclicked emails to GIFs of dancing cats, scanning for keywords but barely digesting what we see. Average time spent on an online article is 15 seconds. In 2014, the Pew Research Centerrevealed that one-quarter of American adults hadn’t read a Read more…

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Iuka Library: National Library Week

National Library Week • April 7 -13, 2019 Join us for fun activities all week long! Monday, April 8 ONLY: FREE RAFFLE! Come by the Iuka Library and get a FREE entry form.  Somebody will win an oil painting by Deanna Washington Gregory, certified Bob Ross Instructor©.  Winner will be drawn at 6 pm Monday night. Tuesday, April 9: LIBRARY WORKERS’ APPRECIATION DAY:  All current and former staff and volunteers are invited to drop in Read more…

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Jack-Kerouac

Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac!

Jack Kerouac (/ˈkɛruæk/; born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent. Kerouac was born on March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts to French Canadian parents, Léo-Alcide Kéroack (1899–1946) and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque (1895–1973). He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Read more…

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Staff Reviews: Melissa Albert The Hazel Wood

Staff Reviews: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Last Sunday night I made a terrible mistake.  I started Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood just thirty minutes before bed and then I didn’t want to put it down!  I stayed up way too late night after night as I became caught up in seventeen-year-old Alice Proserpine’s story of all the creepy, bad things that have followed her and her mother as they’ve spent their lives on Read more…

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The book was almost thrown away. Friends of the Memphis Public Library sold it for $1,250

The Book Was Almost Thrown Away. Friends of the Memphis Public Library Sold it for $1,250

The Book Was Almost Thrown Away Friends of the Memphis Public Library Sold it for $1,250 You never know what you’ll find in a bin of old books. In the case of the Friends of the Memphis Public Library, you might just find a book worth $1,250. That’s how much the organization made off a 1968 first-edition of a science fiction book called “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” It was the most a former Read more…

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A 30-million page library is heading to the moon to help preserve human civilization

A 30-million page library is heading to the moon to help preserve human civilization The massive archive is aboard Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft. Feb. 28, 2019, 2:58 PM CST By Corey S. Powell – NBC News When Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft launched toward the moon last week, it was carrying a mysterious cargo. Mission planners called it a time capsule but hinted that that wasn’t the whole story. Now the truth is out: The little lunar probe carries a 30-million-page Read more…

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Your Kids Can Now Watch Astronauts Reading Stories From Space

Your Kids Can Now Watch Astronauts Reading Stories From Space

Your Kids Can Now Watch Astronauts Reading Stories From Space Reading to kids is wonderful and everything, but reading to kids from space is super awesome If you need to mix up your bedtime story routine a little bit, the Global Space Education Foundation has just the thing for you: Story Time in Space.  It’s exactly what it sounds like — astronauts on various missions in space read popular children’s books while floating about, and the videos are edited Read more…

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Holocaust Survivor Reads About How Books Save Lives

100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Reads Her Letter About How Books Save Lives “Could you imagine a world without access to reading, to learning, to books?” Helen Fagin, who poses that question, doesn’t have to imagine it: she experienced that grim reality, and worse besides. “At twenty-one,” she continues, “I was forced into Poland’s World War II ghetto, where being caught reading anything forbidden by the Nazis meant, at best, hard labor; at worst, death.” Read more…

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