Book Spotlight: Richfield Collection

Review of Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello.
Would you like to read a play, but don’t know much other than Shakespeare? Are you fascinated by characters on TV or in films that seem to take on a life of their own? Are you looking for a short but absorbing read? Consider Nobel Prize-winning playwright Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author. During a routine play rehearsal, a director is approached by six mysteriously related figures who ask to have their story played out on the stage. As the sordid details unfold, the lines between fiction and reality and between the physical stage and the stage of the mind begin to blur. The nature of the story the characters are living in (or perhaps are trapped in) is rather ill-defined, and the dialogue can become confusing, but the patient reader will be rewarded with Pirandello’s unique insights about actors, characters and the dramatic process.
This book can be found in the Richfield Circulating Collection 852.912 PIR.
--Read and reviewed by Mary Burns

Book Spotlight: Richfield Collection

Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi.
This book is a memoir of surviving the Iranian Revolution by a female English professor living in Tehran. Politics became very personal as she was forced out of her job at the University because she did not want to wear the veil. The women in Iran came under immense scrutiny after the country became the “Islamic Republic” and there were “morality police” patrolling the streets to make sure women were not showing any hair or wearing any makeup. Since she could not teach at the University any more, Professor Nafisi started her own clandestine English Literature class in her home with select female students. This is the story of the revolution through her eyes, and the lessons she and her students learned through the literature she taught. This book can be found in the Richfield Circulating Collection 820.9 NAF.
--Read and reviewed by Erica Nutzman.

Ebook of the month: February

The ebook of the month for February, in honor of Black History Month, is Harlem Renaissance. This is a Gale Virtual Reference Library title, accessible through the library's catalog. Ask your local librarian if you need help accessing this book, or look here.
-- by Erica Nutzman

Ebook of the Month: December

The ebook of the month for December is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. This is a NetLibrary title, accessible through the library's catalog. Ask your local librarian if you need help accessing this book, or look here.

-- by Erica Nutzman