Well cadets, we’re in the home stretch. Exams start on Saturday so you know that means two things:
1. The library will be open late so you can get in some quality studying.
and…
2. The return of Preston Library’s Coffee Break!
Last December you came, you saw, you drank hundreds (literally, hundreds) of cups of coffee a night. So, we’re bringing it back! Put it on your calendar, May 1st, the return of the coffee break.
Coffee will be available starting at 8pm (20:00hrs for those of us on military time) every evening beginning Friday, May 1st, through Friday, May 8th. So grab your travel mug and head down to Preston Library this Friday night for the best study break on Post.
Coffee and supplies have been generously donated by the Friends of Preston Library.
Thanks to all the cadets who complekted the Library Survey! The staff of the Preston Library really does appreciate and consider your ideas on how to make the library a better place on post. We would also like to congratulate the cadets who won pizzas and sodas: Jennifer Ball, Will Klick, Robert Main, and Ian Williams. Thanks again for participating in the survey!
Check out the results of the survey here.
Cadet Jennifer Ball receiving her gift certificate from LTC Janet Holly.
Attention Cadets!
Do you like free pizza?
Do you want to help Preston Library improve its services and collections?
Do we have a great deal for you!
Preston Library’s online survey will be available until Thursday, 16 April. Fill out the survey, print the last page, write your name on it, and bring it to the library.
A drawing will be held on Friday , 17 April, and 4 lucky cadets will win 2 pizzas and a 2 liter bottle of soda from the PX.
What are you waiting for? Go take the survey.
Preston Library would like to thank Dining Services for generously donating this year’s survey prizes.
Preston Library will be open this Saturday evening, April 11, until 2200.
This extension of hours is an experiment, since we have had several requests from cadets for additional Saturday evening hours. If we can arrange staffing, we plan to be open for the next four Saturday evenings, which will take us through the end of the exam period.
We will keep track of how many people come in, and this will help us decide whether to continue these hours in the fall. There is always a cost/benefit balance to be considered.
If you would like us to continue being open on Saturday evenings, please let us know, but more importantly, vote with your feet and use the building!
Have you ever had to read the same book over and over again?
I must have been assigned Hamlet at least 3 times before I graduated from college…not that it isn’t worth revisiting the classics. I just prefer new spins and variations on a theme.
Take for example Beowulf. I love it, really, I’m probably the only one who never complained about having to read it AGAIN. But isn’t it always a little more interesting to hear the story from another perspective? And a lot of times villains are much more interesting characters than heroes. John Gardner’s Grendel is not the dark, scary, one-note monster you remember. This Grendel (although still a monster) is a fully developed character with thoughts and reasons to fuel his actions. If you didn’t have to read it for school you should check it out.
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King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies–it’s a good play and also ranks high on the tragedy-meter. There’s not much funny about a King dividing his kingdom based on which daughter loves him most and the ensuing calamity of the decision.
Or is there?
Enter Christopher Moore. Moore’s latest novel, Fool, retells King Lear using the same warped sense of humor you might remember from such novels as You Suck: A Love Story. In this version King Lear’s jester, Pocket, takes over the duty of narrator. Tragedy has never been this funny.
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| And of course the list goes on once you take into account new settings for old stories. |
| Jane Smiley’s Pultizer Prize winning A Thousand Acres is King Lear set on an Iowa Farm. |
| The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski is Hamlet set in Wisconsin, with a dog. |
And my personal favorite:
West Side Story is really Romeo & Juliet, only with better dance numbers. |
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