Library Lines, 11/7
Here is a list of the new books at Tom Green County Library.
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Oz is hot, but we’ve been iced by Norway
THE UN says we’re in the world’s second-best country, but how did we get beaten by a bunch of whale-hunting Scandinavians who hardly ever see sunshine?
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A zombie, made of unread and discarded books, comes to life during a lighting storm. A young boy makes the mistake of visiting the library after hours, and comes face to face with the hungry creature!
List Price: 22.65
Price: 14.09
Zombie author to read at Faulkner County Library
Zombie author Robin Becker, whose “zombie memoir” “Brains” was recently published by an imprint of HarperCollins, will read from her highly acclaimed first novel at the Faulkner County Library at 7 p.m. Oct. 21.
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Halloween Party Guide
Here at Artvoice we hold Halloween parties to the highest standards. You can’t just throw a DJ and some fake spider webs into a club and get onto this list. We combed through a plethora of creep-tastic events to find the ones with some real bite. So grab your spookiest (or sluttiest) costume, a Red Bull, and get ready to dance…’til you die!
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A few nice Zombie Book Reviews images I found:
Interesting Things In My Library #8
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Mental Illness, Possession, Exorcism and Life After Death (1977) – Dr. Francis Harber
This is a truly extraordinary book. By way of explanation, I can do no better than the tongue in cheek review that I once gave the book on Amazon:
"Harber’s comments and insights into the nature of possession and the afterlife are ground breaking. Using a conversational, question and answer format, he attempts to answer major spiritual and philosophical questions for the reader. Towards the end of the text, he provides the reader with a comprehensive guide to recognising the 217 most common symptoms of possession in humans, dogs, and plant life. A plant, named ‘Begonia’, is used as an example. He provides a detailed discussion of the nature of demonic possession, exorcism, and the soul from the perspective of a spiritualist. Constructive solutions and advice are provided to resolve most garden variety possessions by demons and spirits. Well worth the read!"
Jesus, zombies, syphilis, possessed house plants and succubi all make appearances in the book.
Prior to writing this book, Harber authored "Schizophrenia, Obsession, Exorcism, Reincarnation, and Mediums"
Inset: a photo of the good Doctor, taken from the book’s back cover.
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2009 in music
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On last year’s music post, Scott wrote "if i posted about music i’d have left out so many other things that are so important to me."
Music is so much more than a list. It’s a mood, it’s nostalgia, it’s being transported to somewhere other than where you are.
In the scramble to get out the door in the morning, I sometimes weigh the merits of what I’ve left upstairs against how late I am. I won’t turn back for a mislaid hat or my lunch or a book I’m just about to finish. But I cannot get through a single day without music.
People complain that we’re a city of zombies, tuning out the world with our earbuds and shuffling from metro to office and back again. But when the music is good, it makes me want to smile at strangers, to spread the soundtrack of my day.
Top 5 musical happenings of 2009
Avett Brothers, "I And Love And You"
Oh. My. God. It’s just…I’m in awe.
Alejandro Escovedo, everything.
When I got into Chicago late one night last fall, I went for a short walk in Grant Park, intending to get straight back to the hotel and crash. The city instead offered up a free Escovedo show, and I watched a girl in a bridesmaid’s dress dance in her own private world.
Soundtrack, "(500) Days of Summer."
It almost collapses under the weight of twee hipsterdom, but then it doesn’t.
Elvis Costello, "Secret, Profane & Sugarcane."
Yep. When I saw him at Wolftrap this summer, a banjo sat to the side of the stage for the entire show. No one touched it. It just taunted us. Also the man is just charming.
Film, "It Might Get Loud."
See what I did there? I called this musical happenings so i could get away with this. It’s just one 90-minute musical experience anyway. But good god is it wonderful. The storytelling, the journeys home, bizarro mini-Jack White, the inability of White and the Edge to smother the childlike glee when Jimmy Page picks up a guitar in front of them … (go on, look at ‘em smile). This is a movie made for music-lovers.
World War Z: an oral history of the zombie war
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