Book of the Week!

Book of the week

I am going to start adding “book of the week” posts to the CWC blog. Please help me in selecting media from our collection. Take a look around and pick out 2 or 3 (or more if you’d like) books or DVDs that look interesting or that you know and love. Remember, these need to be FROM OUR COLLECTION, so just peruse the shelves around you.



Once you’ve made your choices, write a blurb (see below for examples). Tell me the title, author, and describe the item. For your description, you can write it yourself, or use what’s on the back of the book/box, or grab a review from online like amazon.com or imdb.com, etc (make sure you indicate where your info comes from). Then email it on to me so I can post it to the blog: ezell@email.unc.edu. This will be once a week so it may take a while to get to yours – but don’t worry, yours will soon be the featured selection, wooo!



Some past blurbs:

Outside the Box, by Lynn Sherr

(from Booklist)

Sherr, an ABC correspondent and pioneer in network news, offers a memoir as well as historical perspective on television news, the women's movement, and how the two came together in her long career. Sherr was part of a "mod squad" of young female reporters for the Associated Press sent forth to record the cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1970s, a time when she and other female reporters supported the "burgeoning new women's movement and other assorted rebellions," making them less than the objective observers the profession required. Of Jewish descent, but with the blond looks and Philadelphia Main Line background and Wellesley education that favored women making advancements in the 1960s, Sherr ventured into television journalism and defied the stereotypes about her sex and her looks. She covered politics and the U.S. space program, even as she suffered the criticisms of her dress and hairstyle made by network executives. Amidst recollections of touching stories and the competitive silliness that sometimes accompanies television journalism, Sherr also recalls the painful loss of her husband to cancer and, later, her own battle with the disease. Sherr is candid, amusing, and completely engaging in this look back over her life and a respected career.



The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

(from the Random House online description)

Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy to this most perfect match, a union of families and circumstances cemented by affection. Enter Countess Olenska, a woman of quick wit sharpened by experience, not afraid to flout convention and determined to find freedom in divorce. Against his judgment, Newland is drawn to the socially ostracized Ellen Olenska, who opens his eyes and has the power to make him feel. He knows that in sweet-tempered May, he can expect stability and the steadying comfort of duty. But what new worlds could he discover with Ellen? Written with elegance and wry precision, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a tragic love story and a powerful homily about the perils of a perfect marriage.