Manchester Library Friends Newsletter Ides of March Issue: March 15, 2012

FOML Current Events Calendar March 28th FOML Board Meeting, 7 pm MANCHESTER LIBRARY April 25th FOML Board Meeting, 7 pm SATURDAY, APRIL 28 April 28th Plant & Book Sale, 9 am – 1 pm PLANT SALE: 9 A.M.!1 P.M. th June 17 Salmon Bake & Book Sale BOOK SALE: 9 A.M.!3 P.M. UPCOMING LIBRARY EVENTS: THE FRIENDS OF THE MANCHESTER LIBRARY Movie Matinee: Sullivan’s Travels [a true classic!] OWN AND MAINTAIN THE LIBRARY BUILDING THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY. Wednesday, April 4th at 1:30 pm COME BUY PLANTS AND BOOKS AND HELP KEEP THE BUILDING OPEN, RUNNING Book Worms Book Group: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout AND WELL MAINTAINED! Tuesday, March 20th at 7 pm

Also check “Programs & Events” at www.KRL.org

AND FOR THE KIDS:

Manchester Annual Bunny Hop !

Saturday, April 7, 12-3 pm. KITSAP REGIONAL

rg LIBRARYL.o KRLw.KR Come see the Easter Bunny, hunt for eggs, play games, make ww www.KRL.org crafts, decorate a pot and plant a flower! All at this year's 8067 E. MAIN ST., MANCHESTER Bunny Hop! Drop in anytime from 12-3pm.

Spring Story-times for Little Ones & Fun : 10:30 am Tuesdays – March through May 15. CALLING ALL GARDENERS: Come share stories, rhymes & songs with our children’s librarian. It’s time to plan what to pot up for the sale! Please bring labeled Stay for music & crafts. plants to the library, or to Carol’s at 7900 E. Maple, or to Ron’s at 1911 Puget Drive E. Download MP3 Music from KRL Website If you have questions, or wish to donate items, please contact Ron To access Freegal Music, go to the KRL Website (871-5439) (871-7820). and click the drop-down menu “Books, Movies & Music”, Rada or Carol Campbell then click “Download Music From Freegal”: Love … and Libraries • Library users: just enter your library card number and password (pin). You have a weekly download limit of 3. You will be able Treat yourself to a wonderful 22 minutes with Ray to keep track of your downloads in the upper right corner of Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and the Martian the site. Every song has a sample clip you can listen to before Chronicles. As part of NEA’s Big Read program, Bradbury you download. was interviewed in 2010, and the full interview is available • The library has an overall weekly limit, too. If KRL runs out of downloads for the week, you can go to “My Wishlist” in the via YouTube upper right corner and queue up for future music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLuDOEuwwso • The downloads on this site are all in the MP3 format with no DRM. This service will work with any MP3 player, including iPod, and This interview is not to be missed as Bradbury tells you the can be loaded into iTunes. It works on PCs and Macs. secret to a good life is “love … and libraries.” Be sure to check out the browsing areas, especially Artists A to Z (bottom of page) and the genre lists (menu bar). Click on see all genres to view dozens of categories. Ides of March Issue, 15 March 2012 editor: Ray Pardo [email protected] 1 of 2 As you allow this artist to paint vivid portraits with his prose and music into your mind, strange things can happen. This is part of the fun. For example, read Cohen’s lyrics when you listen to Jennifer Warnes sing “First we take Manhattan.” Musically, Cohen proposes harmonies, ingeniously layered with other ingredients (female vocalists, children, foreign languages, etc.), thereby creating unique euphonic melodies. Furthermore, one may find that Cohen’s art can be intriguing because of its paradoxes: Complex and Clear. Melancholy, but Hopeful. Accessible, still elusive. Sublime yet vulnerable. However served, undeniably, it is done with such a loving touch.

Enjoy. Based: on his book - “Stranger Music” a collection of lyrics and poetry; and a sample from his music repertoire - “Suzanne” - (The Best of Steven Saylor’s Roma Sub Rosa Series Leonard Cohen – the first ‘Best Of’ compilation – copyrighted 1975) Steven Saylor is an author of intriguing historical detective It is a little after 2 am. In the bunker-like college radio station fiction set in the Rome of Cicero and Caesar. His protagonist studio, when the phone rings at this time, it feels like a surreal Gordianus (aka “The Finder”) lives in Rome and, in the early aural anomaly floating through the middle of a dream. novels, is called on by Cicero to investigate cases that Cicero is “I would like to hear ‘Suzanne’ by Leonard Cohen,” about to prosecute. With the backstory of many of the novels taken from Cicero’s Letters, Saylor sets a high bar for himself as emanates the gentle, sultry voice on the other end from who he must have Gordianus involved with real characters of knows where. As a radio station disc jockey, this was the most history, often speaking lines from the writings of Cicero and provocative request I’ve ever had. others. The series includes (in historical order):

Just like that, the person was gone… and just like that, via this Title Involving introduction, my life had changed forever. Cicero and Sulla in 80 BC House of the Vestals 9 short stories set in 90 to 73 BC And you want to travel with her A Gladiator Dies Only Once 9 short stories set in 77 to 64 BC you want to travel blind Arms of Nemesis Marcus Crassus & the slave revolt in 72 BC Catalina’s Riddle Catalina and Cicero in 63 to 62 BC and you know that you can trust her The Venus Throw Philosopher Dio, Catullus and Clodia in 56 BC for she’s touched your perfect body A Murder on the Appian Way Clodius and Milo in 52 BC with her mind Rubicon Caesar marches on Rome in 49 BC Last Seen in Massilia Trebonius lays siege to Massila in 49 BC A Mist of Phrophecies Cassandra and Caesar in 48 BC Background - Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934. At A Judgment of Caesar Caesar, and Cleopatra in 48-47 BC one point, while attending college, Cohen found himself in law The Triumph of Caesar Calpurnia, Caesar & his calendar in 46 BC school as a disillusioned student. Consequently, in New York at Gordianus is confronted at every turn with egotistical Romans. Columbia University, Cohen determined that his graduate In particular, Cicero gives him “a headache”: “I have fallen out school experience was heading in the wrong direction and and made up with Cicero so many times I am weary of it. Is he described it as a "passion without flesh, love without climax". an honest man or a crass opportunist? A principled man of the Cohen left academia and returned to Canada, where in 1967, he people or an apologist for the rich nobility? If he were clearly went on to record his first musical album. In that set, there one thing or the other, like most men, I would know what to appears ‘Suzanne’. Cohen recounts: think of him. Instead, he is the most exasperating man in Rome. His conceit and superior attitude, no matter how well deserved, I wrote this in 1966. Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port do nothing to endear him to me; neither does his propensity for of Montreal. Everything happened as it was put down. She was the wife of a telling only half the truth, even when his purpose may be man I knew. Her hospitality was immaculate. Some months later I sang it honorable. . . .” [from Judgment of Caesar] to Judy Collins over the telephone. The publishing rights were lost in New York City but it is probably appropriate that I don’t own this song. Just the These stories are exciting, well founded in history and other day I heard some people singing it on a ship in the Caspian Sea. meticulously set in the period. The books are available at KRL. A pre-quel to the story –The Seven Wonders – is due out in May. Recipes for a Feast - As a suggestion, one might find that So, go back in time and enter Gordianus’ world of pre-empire reading Leonard Cohen’s poetry while listening to his music at Rome . . . the same time can develop into a wonderful experience. Essay by Ray Pardo Ides of March Issue, 15 March 2012 editor: Ray Pardo [email protected] 2 of 2