May 2021 A Sawiris Library
THE HUB NEWSLETTER
WELCOME TO THE MAY 2021 ISSUE
Love, whose month is ever May,
May... May... is upon us in all its bloom and glory. And so are exams!
Important! As we are gearing up for the end of the year we'd like to remind everyone to return their overdue library books as soon as possible. Seniors, please bring yours when you come to campus for your exams. If you still need an item for a short period, please contact Mr. Chioini.
Borrowing is still possible until the end of May. The June issue of the newsletter will explain summer borrowing procedures and the deposit fees involved.
Note that without prior arrangements with Mr. Chioini report cards will be upheld at the end of the school year until all accounts are settled.
A BIT OF POETRY IN OUR LIVES...
Due to school closing in April, we are continuing our poetry challenge. Choose one of the following poetry activity that suits you best and send your entries to mchioini@asparis.fr and put the name of the challenge in the subject line. 1. BLACKOUT POETRY
Find a newspaper, magazine or any other piece of writing. Read through it and find the words that will create your poem. Then black out the words around to highlight your poem. You can create an art work out of it too.
2. SPINE LABEL POETRY
Browse through our collection of books or your own bookshelves at home. Look at the spine labels and start arranging the titles that could form a poem. Use the catalog to find books with specific words if you want. Once you have your poem in mind, pull out the books and stack them up on a table and take a picture. Use anywhere between 4 and 6 books.
3. HAIKU WRITING
Haiku is a short poem form that follows a 5-7-5 pattern.
5 syllables 7 syllables 5 syllables
What a mystery
BOOK BUNDLES
Looking for ideas? Here are 5 Book Bundles* we hope will pique your interest. Each bundle can be checked out as is or can be mixed and matched.
This month we only offer one bundle: Paris
The invisible life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab (F) Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
Die for me by Amy Plum (F-YA) After their parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year-old Kate Mercier and her older sister Georgia, each grieving in her own way, move to Paris to live with their grandparents and Kate finds herself powerfully drawn to the handsome but elusive Vincent who seems to harbor a mysterious and dangerous secret. Murder in Montmartre by Cara Black (F) When Aimee's childhood friend, Laure, is accused of killing her fellow police officer, Aimee vows to clear her friend's name and find the real killer before they can come after Laure and finish the job.
The museum vaults : excerpts from the journal of an expert by Marc-Antoine Mathieu (graphic novel) (English translation) An art assessor finds himself drawn into a seemingly endless succession of basement levels when he sets out to evaluate the warehoused collection at Paris's Louvre Museum.
Je parler français by David Serais (French translation) (F) Loosely chronological memoir which is divided between Sedaris's childhood in North Carolina, early adulthood in New York, and his recent adventures living with his boyfriend in Paris.
A moveable feast by Ernest Hemingway (NF) Sketches of the author's early life in Paris in the twenties provide nostalgic reminiscences of his first marriage and the discipline of developing his own literary craft.
A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens (F) Presents Charles Dickens's 1859 historical novel set in Paris and London during the French Revolution, in which French nobleman Charles Darnay renounces his position in order to save the life of a servant; and contains chronology, timeline, and textual notes.
How Paris Became Paris by Joan DeJean (NF) Discusses the history and culture of Paris France.
Exiled in Paris; Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and others on the Left Bank (NF) Provides a portrait of the postwar Beat Generation in Paris
The only street in Paris : life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino (NF) Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living.
Writers in Paris : literary lives in the city of light by David Burke (NF) Follows hundreds of writers through Paris's labyrinthine streets, inviting readers on a grand tour and focusing not only on their writing but on their passions, ecstasies, obsessions, and betrayals.
YOUR READING REVIEWS - You read, we post
Students, parents, faculty and staff, we would love to know your book reviews and recommendations.
1. Contribute to our Blogging My Reading blog and share your reading recommendations with our community.
Follow this link for the instructions
2. You can also take a picture of the QR code on the right and fill out the quick Google form.
TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO READ...
We're listening... Click on the link below. MAY AUTHORS BIRTHDAYS
3 Scott Westerfeld (Uglies) 6 Gaston Leroux (Phantom of the opera) 9 Joy Harjo (poet, An American sunrise) 9 Richard Adams (Watership Down) 14 Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl) 17 Gary Paulsen (Hatchet) 19 Jodi Picoult (Handle with care) 20 Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House series) 23 Mitch Albom (Tuesday with Morie) 24 Bob Dylan (2016 Nobel Prize in Literature) 30 Colm Tóibín (Brooklin)
LitBits A selection of literary events and news for the month.
1. When: Tuesday 4 May 2021, 8pm-9pm (Paris time) Where: Online Events with The Guardian [£5 plus £0.72 booking fee] Event: Carlo Rovelli: The story of quantum physics who will introduce his new book, Helgoland.
2. When: Thursday 6 May 2021, 8pm-9pm (Paris time) Where: Online Events with The Guardian [£5 plus £0.72 booking fee] Event: Book Club with Douglas Stuartwho will discuss Swuggie Bain, awarded the 2020 Booker Prize, making Stuart the second Scot to win the award.
3. When: Monday 10 May 2021, 8pm-9pm (Paris time) Where: Online Events with The Guardian [£5 plus £0.72 booking fee] Event: Michael Lewis: A pandemic story. Join bestselling author Michael Lewis for a discussion of his new book about the coronavirus pandemic, The Premonition, where a small group of scientific misfits saw what nobody else did: that a pandemic was coming and we weren't prepared.
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Children and Teenagers Literature News (A column from The Guardian)
Marvel announces first gay Captain America by Alison Flood
White people, black authors are not your medicine by Yaa Gyasi (author of Homegoing)
Michael Rosen: 'This book is about what it feels like to nearly die' by Michael Rosen (acclaimed poet for children and adult alike, author of Michael Rosen's Sad Book)
Vladimir Nabokov's Superman poem published for the first time by Alison Flood
Marcel Proust : « Les soixante-quinze feuillets », le manuscrit perdu et retrouvé, sera publié jeudi
BITS & PIECES
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Ms. Colina, Mr. Tremblay, Mr. Chioini
Right: Mario Chioini, MLIS, Upper School Librarian, mchioini@asparis.fr Left: Anthony Tremblay, Upper School Library Assistant, uslibrary@asparis.fr
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