Susie Bille, Systems Librarian, recommends The Body Knows the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. After spending years in emergency services, I know how to help mitigate traumatic physical injuries. I also know people can struggle to regain their zest for life long after their bodies are safe and healed. It would be wonderful to understand how trauma affects the body, and how to heal from it. The Body Knows the Score is a comprehensive and insightful examination of the impact of trauma on the … [Read more...] about Book Review: “The Body Knows the Score”
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Book Review: “The Satanic Verses”
Gold Mine Processing Manager, Kelly Noble, recommends The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie is one of the most controversial novels ever written. The author, translators, and publishers have all been under constant death threats since its publication in 1988. Some, including the author, have been physically attacked. Others in the publishing business have been murdered. Yet the novel is one of Rushdie's best creative works. It is full of magical realism, … [Read more...] about Book Review: “The Satanic Verses”
Book Review: Musical Tables by Billy Collins
Review by Library Assistant Andrea Nelson The poems are short,So short you can read the entire book in 40 minutes.Laid end to end, the sentences of my book reviewscould cross the pond and return with crumpets and tea.That won’t serve here. Full disclosure: I’m a Billy Collins fangirl. It all started on a California beach. I remember sea lions honking and groaning rudely, as if they owned the sun and the glitter it sprinkled on the waves. Marinated in my sunscreen, I stood … [Read more...] about Book Review: Musical Tables by Billy Collins
Everything and the Kitchen Sink
By Olivia Terry, Regional History Museum Librarian Pictured here in this turn of the century studio portrait from the Mary Lemon Brown Collection, is Gertrude Edna Lewis Gates (1867-1945). Gertrude was the daughter of Isaac Ives Lewis, one of Ketchum’s most influential men during the silver mining boom. When Gertrude was thirteen, she and her family moved to Ketchum and built a house near where Sun Valley is currently located. Shortly after, Issac Lewis monopolized business, purchasing … [Read more...] about Everything and the Kitchen Sink
Reel Legends
Fly-fisherwomen of the Wood River Valley Library Foyer ExhibitJanuary-April 2022Part of the 2022 Winter Read “A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what is says to each of us.” ~Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It To an angler, each bend in the river reveals new riffles and pools, glimmering with hope. The pebbles and rocks underfoot are more than a complex geology. They are pockets of opportunity. An emergence of insects near the … [Read more...] about Reel Legends
Book Review: Madhouse at the End of the Earth
Peter Matschek, Gold Mine Processing Associate, recommends Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton. This book is the true story about the experiences of the crew of the Belgica in their attempt to be the first ship to reach the magnetic South Pole. The captain, Adrien de Gerlache, was from an aristocratic family of Belgium; one of his ancestors was one of the founders of the Belgian nation. His brother, father, grandfather, and a long line of de Gerlache men all had careers in the … [Read more...] about Book Review: Madhouse at the End of the Earth
