LakewoodBuzz.com's Reading List for May 2008...

1.  "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar..." by T. Cathcart & D. Kelin
2.  "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle
3.  "Adrian Mole & the Weapons of Mass Destruction" by Sue Townsend
4.  "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson
5.  "You May Already Be a Winner" by Jan C. Snow
6.  "Harvey & Eck" by Erin O'Brien
7.  "Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art" by Gene Wilder
8.  "It's Always Something" by Gilda Radner
9.  "Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription" by William F. Buckley Jr.
10.  "How the Universe Got Its Spots" by Janna Levin

What are your favorite books?  Do you have your own top titles to recommend, old or new?  Scroll down to read some of our neighbors' favorites!

Buzz Book Reviewer Syndie Eardly's Top 10...

"It was difficult to limit it to ten, but I tried to include historical favorites and some recent reads as well," notes "The Lakewood Bookshelf"  columnist Syndie McAfee Eardly.

1.  "The Choice" by Og Mandino
2.  "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron
3.  "Being Peace" by Thich Nhat Hahn
4.  "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Alborn
5.  "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
6.  "Seven Storey Mountain" by Thomas Merton
7.  "Quantum Theology" by Diarmuid O'Murchu
8.  "A More Ardent Fire" by Dknath Easwaran
9.  "Left to Tell" by Immacule Ilibagiza
10. "Adam, God's Beloved" by Henri Nouwen

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Marchand's favorite reads...

Buzzer Henry Marchand shares his Top 10... "Ask me tomorrow and the list would likely be different, and there's no real significance to the order in which titles are listed," he adds.

1.  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
2.  "1984" by George Orwell
3.  "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
4.  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago
5.  "The Plague" by Albert Camus
6.  The Collected Short Stories of Anton Chekov
7.  "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
8.  "The Thurber Carnival" by James Thurber
9.  "The Heart of the Matter" by Graham Greene 
10. "Death and the Penguin" by Andrei Kurkov

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This Buzzer puts Different Spin on Top 10 list...

A neighbor who goes by the nickname "dl" sent these favorites to share... "It isn't a book list, but 10 of my favorite American poets," writes dl.  Well, uhh, okay, dl!

• Maya Angelou (pictured)

• Charles Bukowski

• ee cummings

• T. S. Eliot

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• Allen Ginsberg

• Langston Hughes

• Dorothy Parker

• Walt Witman

If you have a "Top 10" reading list you'd like to share, email it to Lakewood Buzz by clicking here!  We'll publish your list of books, or what the heck... your list of poets, too!
  

Endress recommends these books to Buzzers...

Recommended reads from Sue Clemmings...

Buzzer Sue Clemmings recommends the following books... just a portion of the favorites list she submitted.

1.  "Marie Curie" by Eve Curie
2.  "Mickelson's Ghosts" by John Gardner
3.  "The Cape" by Anne Faith Sullivan
4.  "Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles" by Stefan Zweig
5.  "The Plague and I" by Betty MacDonald
6.  "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" by Emily Kimbrough & Cornelia Skinner
7.  "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
8.  "We Took to the Woods" by Louise D. Rich
9.  "Portage into the Past" by J. Arnold Bolz
10. "By Motor to the Golden Gate" by Emily Post

What are your favorites?  Do you have your own list of top titles, old or new?  Send us and share your Top-10 or whatever list with other Buzzers by clicking here!

"Top 10" reading list of Lynn Farris...

"It is hard to come up with ten," says Lakewood resident Lynn Farris.  "Here is a good mix of my favorites.

1.  "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
2.  "Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
3.  "Agony and the Ecstacy" by Irving Stone
4.  "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand
5.  "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
6.  "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden
7.  "The Greatest Salesman in the World" by Og Mandino
8.  "The Chosen" by Chaim Potak
9.  "The Brethren" by Woodward and Armstrong
10. "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Classics all, Lynn!  Do you have a list of favorite books, new or classic?  Share your list of recommended books, whatever the number, five or 10 or? Email your top books to the Buzz by clicking here!



Here's Suzanne Metelko's Top 10, well almost...

Well, we did ask for your "Top-Any Number" reading list, didn't we?  These are the 11 favorites submitted by book-loving Lakewoodite Suzanne Metelko, a Lakewood Public Library trustee.

1.  "Crow Lake" by Mary Lawson
2.  "My Home is Far Away" by Dawn Powell
3.  "Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving
4.  "All Over but the Shoutin'" by Rick Bragg
5.  "Charms for the Easy Life" by Kaye Gibbons
6.  "Millennials Rising" by Howe and Strauss
7.  "Nobody's Fool" by Richard Russo
8.  "Stones from the River" by Ursula Hegi
9.  "Shipping News" by Annie Proulx
10.  "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" by Jung Chang
11.  "Walking Across Egypt" by Clyde Edgerton

"Couldn't choose just ten, sorry,"  Metelko apologized.  No apologies needed, Suzanne!  Share your list of favorite books!  Email it to the Buzz by clicking here!

Lakewood Public Library is NOT exactly Top-Ten!

You could say our public library system is Top 10 stuff... but you wouldn't be giving it enough credit.  Fact is, several times, the Lakewood Public Library has been rated  #1 in the country for libraries serving similar sized cities.  Congratulations to the staff and volunteers of LPL!

Last year, literally millions of items were loaned to library patrons, like you and me, for our education and enjoyment... from books and videos to CDs and electronic documents, and much more.

A library branch is no more than a two-mile walk or drive from anyplace in town. Both branches are right on the RTA Community Circulator bus route, too, putting you about a dozen steps from their front doors! Raining outside or in a rush?  Just click here to learn more about the many services you can access, right from your Mac or PC.  Our Lakewood Public Library - it's one of Lakewood Buzz's favorite places to be!

  
MAIN LIBRARY
15425 Detroit Avenue
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Saturday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sunday, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Main Library Phone 226-8275
Customer Services, Ext.120
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Technology Center, Ext.127
Reference Desk, Ext.130
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24-Hour Renewal, Ext.150


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Madison Branch Phone 228-7428
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