Posted by Candice on Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Are you missing your regular pub quiz? Are you interested in local history? Do you like testing your knowledge against a set of somewhat obscure questions, in a low-stakes environment (you don't even have to keep score!), with a group of fun people, from the comfort of your own home?
Then join us for a local history trivia night! May is usually when the Library celebrates Irving Weber Days, in honor of Iowa City's favorite local historian. What better way to do this than by doling out facts about his beloved town, many of them taken from his own articles!
We'll meet via Zoom on Thurday, May 21, starting at 7 p.m. We will follow a fairly standard quiz template, with approximately six rounds of 4-5 questions covering various Iowa City-related topics, as well as a Pick Six and an Elimination round. Winners get to brag a little, everyone gets to learn a little!
Registration is required, and a Zoom invite will be sent out the day before the event. If you have questions, you can contact us, or email me at candice-smith@icpl.org
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I work at the Info Desk on the second floor, and I select books for the adult nonfiction collection. I have a degree in anthropology, which really helps in selecting...well...almost anything. I also manage the Art To Go collection of framed prints and original art, and the nonfiction DVDs.
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This was so good! I came across this title on ICPL's 'Featured Collections' scroller on the website (which, by the way, is a great way to find titles you might not be aware of), and I was hooked from the beginning. The story is told in alternating chapters by Mae and Chris, and the first thing of note is that I found both narrators to be unique and excellent, with a nice range of emotion (even hard-on-the-outside Chris). You know when a narrator sounds just like the character you're imagining? This had that going on for me. The story itself is compelling and original, even while having well-known elements that are in the miasma surrounding Hollywood: the big players, the world of dirty secrets perpetrated by those who hold the power, the broken systems, the people who fall through the cracks, and the people who perpetuate all of this in various ways. I found all the characters to be nicely fleshed out, especially Mae and Chris of course, but the side characters are also given unique characteristics and situations that tell their stories. One final note: this is the second book I've read or listened to recently that has a female "cleaner" at the center of it, someone who helps cover up bad situations for powerful people in Hollywood (the other is the Devil's Playground), and it is making for some very interesting post-book thinking. -Candice