Saturday, July 1, 2017

                  Read, White & Blue

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." >>John Adams


       Preamble to the U.S. Declaration of Independence

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain Unalienable Rights, that along these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."

     The Constitution of the United States of America 

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general
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Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...
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 First Amendment to the  Constitution

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

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Fourth of July trivia:

Two presidents died on July 4, 1826; one died in Massachusetts, the second died in Virginia. Name the presidents.

One president was born on July 4. Name the president and year of birth. Tip of the hat for knowing his state of birth.

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Declare your reading independence. If your habit is reading general (lighter) fiction, try science fiction, a mystery/thriller or a classic. If you haven't read poetry since high school, browse the 811 or 821 library shelves. Rarely pick up nonfiction? Read an autobiography, cookbook or history of the United States (it's almost July Fourth!). If you need ideas, these new books will help.

Keto Restaurant Favorites - Maria Emmerich
The Complete Make-Ahead Cookbook - America's Test Kitchen

The Land of Stories - Chris Colfer
The Force Oversleeps (Jedi Academy) - Jarret Krosoczlia

Everything All At Once - Bill Nye
Sting Ray Afternoons - Steve Rushin (memoir)
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House of Spies - Daniel Silva
The Late Show - Michael Connelly
Paradise Valley - C.J. Box
The Painted Queen - Elizabeth Peters & Joan Hess
The Lying Game - Ruth Ware
Two Nights - Kathy Reichs
The Moores are Missing - James Patterson
Deadfall - Linda Fairstein
A Distant View of Everything - Alex McCall Smith

July is Get Ready for Kindergarten Month, National Cell Phone Courtesy Month, National Ice Cream Month (finally an excuse to eat ice cream!)

                                    July Days

1     -First U.S. postage stamps issued, 1847
       -Second Half of the New Year Day

3     -Earth at aphelion - farthest from the sun, 94, 510,000 miles at 4:11 edt 

4     -America the Beautiful published 1985, Katherine Lee Bates

11   -To Kill a Mockingbird published, 1960

12   -100th anniversary of the birth of Andrew Wyeth, artist. Best known for Christina's World (1948). Read Christina Baker Kline's historical fiction tale of Wyeth's work, A Piece of the World

19   -Take Your Poet to Work Day
       -Anniversary of Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, 1848

22   -National Day of the Cowboy (and cowgirls, too)

23   -Aunties' Day celebrates all aunts by relation or choice

30   -First modern paperback books introduced in Leipzig, Germany

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Answers to trivia: Thomas Jefferson died in Virginia, John Adams died in Massachusetts. Calvin Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872 in Vermont.

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