Actually this is more of an update. I haven’t been blogging in a while. I have been busy with attending the California Library Association Conference in Long Beach and visiting my folks.
I had a great time at the conference and learned alot. For more information about the conference and CLA please go to http://www.cla-net.org/
There were lots of great speakers, presentations and exhibits. I really enjoyed Infopeople’s Technology “petting zoo.” I played with all sorts of technology. WII, IPhones, etc. I really worked up a sweat playing tennis with WII. Unfortuntely I am as bad at WII bowling as I am at the real game.
Infopeople also sponsored Ray Bradbury’s interview. I can never decide which book I like best–Martian Chronicles or Fahrenheit 451? Do you have a favorite Bradbury book?
CLA had great speakers: I really enjoyed listening to Sarah Vowell
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Hey Deirdre,
I still haven’t read Fahrenheit 451, but I do remember enjoying Martian Chronicles 20+ years ago. I keep meaning to reread the Halloween Tree, which gave me the creeps when I was a kid.
–GI
Comment by Glenn I January 10, 2008 @ 10:29 pmYou MUST read Fahrenheit 451 if you love books. The movie starring Oskar Warner and Julie Christie is pretty good too. I like to ask people who have read it, “What book would you become? I would like to be Fahrenheit 451. I also like Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner; but please, Fahrenheit 451 is much shorter.
Martian Chronicles was the first Bradbury book I read, I remember how lyrical parts of it are.
There is also a great Bradbury short story about a boy who works to save up for a new pair of sneakers and the feeling it gives him when he puts them on. I remember that feeling of being young and full of energy and hope.
I don’t remember the Halloween off hand, but Something Wicked This Way Comes scared me.
Ray Bradbury loves to tell this story, (I have seen him twice over the years. Once at Dark Carnival bookstore in Berkeley when it was on Adeline, and then again at CLA.) He used a public typewriter in the LA public libary to type up some of his first manuscripts. He would collect a huge pocket of change and off he would go. I was a quiet place away from his kids where he could concentrate.
People still come looking for typewriters at the Berkeley Public Libraries but we no longer have them. Mostly they want them to fill out forms and applications.
Comment by librarian4sail January 10, 2008 @ 10:52 pmMost of these forms are available as PDFs online but not all. And there are still lots of people who don’t have or don’t want access to computers.
I can’t remember the Halloween Tree. I will have to look it up.