BOOKWISE

We find that our couches are very popular.  They are also very comfortable, it seems!  Anyone know who this sleepy TWC student is?

Nov. 10 update:  Sarah Torbett won the contest to name those feet.  They belong to Alex Whitlock, a student assistant at the library.  Congratulations, Sarah, on your new copy of Sara Paretsky’s Hardball.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,’ I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
 

from “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

These new books are on the shelf just crying out for someone to take them home and love them.  Read their Book eHarmony profiles here and check out these lonely books- your own true love may be here. 

The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe- divorced blue book, about 2,000 years old, good with a sword, seeking available maiden to be new Queen of England- as long as she stays away from that cad Lancelot.  Must be good equestrienne and excel at potions.

The Heart of Addiction by Lance Dodes- slim white book with addictive personality seeking available single alcoholics, gamblers or shopaholics for study.  Meet me at the Roadhouse Casino.   Don’t fall off the wagon.

Warhol:  the Biography by Victor Bockris- large maroon book, loves art, fashion, movies, music; seeking reader with open mind and interest in same.  BYO soup cans.

Antarctica:  Secrets of the Southern Continent by David McGonigal- Oversize bluish book with love of penguins, whales, snow, and ice.  Hoping for a cool companion who won’t melt me.  Greenhouse gases need not apply.

In the Shadow of the Master:  Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe- hardcover red book with eerie illustration; interested in ravens, bells, morgues, and other very scary things.  Seeking girl named Annabel Lee, dead or alive.

Beyond Borders:  Thinking Critically about Global Issues by Paula Rothenberg- multicolor book, many maps, keen on international civil and human rights, global ecology, health, poverty, and other PC issues; seeking  students with minds needing expanding.  Yes, there is a world outside of East Tennessee.

Read our older Book eHarmony blog posts at these links:

http://twcbookwise.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/book-e-harmony/

http://twcbookwise.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/more-book-e-harmony/

Professors at Beloit College compile a list each year describing the cultural mindset of the entering freshman class to help teachers understand students’ frame of reference; that is, where they are coming from. On the list:

-They have never used a card catalog to find a book.
-Salsa has always outsold ketchup.
-Rap music has always been mainstream.
-Text has always been hyper.
-Babies have always had social security numbers.
-The European Union has always existed.
-McDonald’s has always been serving Happy Meals in China.
-Tattoos have always been chic and highly visible.
-They never saw the “Scud Stud”.
-Christopher Columbus has always been getting a bad rap.
-Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Latvia have always been independent nations.

We all have a lot to learn from each other! Let’s get started.

See the complete Beloit College Mindset List here:
http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2013.php

J. Adams

If it is Friday it must be time for the Credo Brainteaser. Try to answer these questions using our Credo Reference database. Answers Monday!!

Children
This week’s brainteaser is about famous sons and daughters or their famous parents.

Questions:
1. What is the name of the US actor and producer who is the son of Kirk Douglas?
2. What was the name of the American-Indian princess who was the daughter of Powhatan and who saved the life of English adventurer John Smith?
3. The Beatles’ song “Hey Jude” was originally intended to be “Hey Jules”, referring to whose son?
4. Liza Minnelli is the daughter of which American singer and film actress?
5. Which British guitarist was prompted to write the song “Tears in Heaven” by the death of his son, Conor, in 1991?
6. Who was the father of the Indian political leader Indira Gandhi?
7. What is the title of Prince Gautama Siddhartha, son of the rajah of the Sakya tribe ruling in Kapilavastu, Nepal?
8. Svetlana Alliluyeva is the only daughter of which former Soviet Communist leader?
9. The musician Frank Zappa had four children, all with unusual names. Can you give the first names of two of his children?
10. What were the first names of William Shakespeare’s twin children?

This week’s brainteaser from Credo Reference is Classical Music. Use Credo Reference database to find the answers you don’t know.

1. Who wrote the music for the ballets “Swan Lake”, “The Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker”?

2. One the best-known sequences of concertos by the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi was published in 1725 as Le quattro Stagioni. What is it called in English?

3. Which composer wrote the Pastoral Symphony and the Moonlight Sonata?

4. Was Yehudi Menuhin primarily known as a violinist, pianist or trumpeter?

5. Richard Strauss’s symphonic poem “Also Sprach Zarathustra” became extremely well-known through its use in which film?

6. Who wrote the five concert marches called “Pomp and Circumstance”?

7. Which Russian composer’s most popular works include his “Piano Concerto No. 2″ and “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”?

8. Which American composer wrote three symphonies as well as the music for “West Side Story”?

9. Who wrote his 9th Symphony (From the New World) in the U.S.?

10. Which composer’s 5th Symphony was used in the 1971 film “Death in Venice”?

Answers posted Monday!
Julie Adams

Find the answers to the Friday Record Labels quiz at this link:
http://corp.credoreference.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2195&Itemid=79
How did you do?

Use Credo Reference, our fantastic database which contains over 400 reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, companions) in most subject areas including art, business, language, literature, history, music, religion, psychology, science, social sciences, and technology. Find the answers to the questions below using Credo. This quiz comes to us from the Credo Reference Team. Answers Monday!!!! – J. Adams

Record Labels

1. Name the record company which was founded by the four Beatles in 1968.

2. Which record label was launched by Richard Branson with Mike Oldfield’s first album, “Tubular Bells”?

3. Sam Phillips discovered Elvis Presley. What was the name of Phillips’s record label, which also nurtured the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Charlie Rich

4. Through his association with Bob Marley, Chris Blackwell played a major part in the international popularity of reggae in the seventies. What was the name of the British independent record company that Blackwell founded?

5. What was the name of the noncommercial record label for recordings produced by the U.S. War Department between 1943 and 1949 for the use of military personnel?

6. A & M was named from the surnames of its two founders. What was the name of the founder whose surname started with A?

7. As the name of a record label, what does “HMV” stand for?

8. EMI was formed in 1931. What do the letters “EMI” stand for?

9. Jerry Masucci popularized the term “salsa” which described the Latin dance music issued on his label. What was the label called?

10. For over ten years, Booker T and the MGs was the house band for which record label?