November 3 - What should we celebrate?

November 3rd is Job Action Day.
For books about getting jobs and promotions, see 650.14.
For books about choosing a career, see 158.6.
For books about the labor market, see 331.12.

November 3rd is also Cliche Day.
For special dictionaries of the English language, see 423.1.

November 3rd is also Housewife's Day.
For books about husband-wife relationships, see 646.78.
For books about parenting from a sociology perspective, see 301.427.
For books about the culture of parenthood, see 306.874.
For books about the gender aspects of motherhood, see 305.43.
For the play "A Doll's House," which is about a housewife, see 839.8.

November 3rd is also Traffic Directors Day.
For books about city transit, see 388.
For books about the regulation of road transportation, see 343.094.

November 3rd is also Sandwich Day.
For books about making sandwiches, see 641.84.

November 3rd is also Jellyfish Day.
For books about Cnidaria, which include Scyphozoa ("true jellyfish"), see 593.5.
For books about Hydrozoa, which are related to jellyfish, see 593.7.

November 1 - What should we celebrate?

November 1st is All Saint's Day.
For books about life after death, see 236.2.
For books about Christian holidays, 394.266.

November 1st is also National Day in Algeria.
For books about Algeria, see 965.

November 1st is also Rajyotsava Day.
For books about Karnataka, see 954.87.
For books about Hinduism, see 294.5.

November 1st is also Authors' Day.
For books about literary theory, see 801.
For literary anthologies, see 808.8.

November 1st is also World Vegan Day.
For books about vegan cooking, see 641.5636.
*November is considered to be World Vegan Month, which is ironic, since the most important November holiday for Americans is symbolized by a giant cooked turkey.

November 1st is also Go Cook For Your Pets Day.
For books about taking care of animals, see 636.

October 31 - What should we celebrate?

October 31st is Magic Day.
For books about magic tricks, see 793.8.
For books about witchcraft and sorcery, see 133.4.
For books about Shamanism, see 201.44.

October 31st is also Bandanna Day.
For books about hand crafts, see 745.5.
For books about cancer, see 616.99.

For books about Halloween, see 394.2646.

October 30 - What should we celebrate?

October 30th is Create a Great Funeral Day.
For books on religious ceremonies for the dead, see 265.85.
For books on the social aspects of death, see 393.
For books of cemetery records, see 929.5.
For books about the public health aspects of burial, see 614.6.

October 30th is also Candy Corn Day.
For books about making candy, see 641.853.
For books about growing corn, see 633.1.
For books about cooking with corn, see 641.6567.

October 30th is also Checklist Day.
For books about memory, see 153.

The evening of October 30th is Mischief Night.
For books about property crime, see 364.16.
For books about aggression, see 157.3.

Want to see something really scary? For a story about what it's like to work at Burger King, try this link:
https://docs.google.com/a/eastonpl.org/document/d/1-uCQT2bT5rNLMvMn4zThGkGcojzIzjolFuYlPAYtZjs/pub

October 29 - What should we celebrate?

October 29th is Internet Day.
For books about the networking aspects of the Internet, see 004.67.
For books about various information resources on the Internet, see 025.06.
For books about the Internet as a form of social interaction, see 302.231.
For books about the Internet as a type of telecommunications, see 384.3.
For books about website and database design, see 005.7.

October 29th is also Cat Day.
For books about taking care of cats, see 636.8.
(October 16th was Feral Cat Day, so this seems a little redundant...)

October 29th is Republic Day in Turkey.
For books about the republic as a form of government, see 321.8.
For books about the history of Turkey, see 949.6.
For books about the history of the Ottoman Empire, see 956.1.
The book Plato's Republic has nothing to do with the concept of a "republic"; the time-honored mistranslation of the title is misleading. The original title is Politea, which roughly translates to "city." For a copy of Plato's Republic, look under 321.07 or 888.4.

Halloween is drawing closer. Here is one of my favorite Halloween songs:

October 28 - What should we celebrate?

October 28th is Animation Day.
For books about drawing technique and cartoons, see 741.
For books about animated films, see 791.433.

October 28th is also Plush Animal Lover's Day.
For books about making soft toys, see 745.5924.
For books about collecting teddy bears and beanie babies, see 688.724.
For books about collecting toys as a form of recreation, see 790.133.
For books about animals in general, see the 590s.

Halloween is coming up! Take a look at what our library did three years ago for Halloween:

P.D. James' "Death Comes to Pemberley" on PBS This Week - See Trailer

While fans of Downton Abbey wait for the next season, PBS is airing another period drama this week. Death Comes to Pemberley, an adaptation of P.D. James' 2011 mystery, begins on Sunday, October 26, on WHYY and Wednesday, October 29, on WLVT.

James' novel is a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice,picking up six years into the marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy. They're preparing for the annual ball at their Pemberley estate when Elizabeth's sister Lydia and her husband arrive with the news that a companion has been murdered in the nearby woods.

Many people will recognize the main actors. Anna Maxwell Martin (Bletchley Circle) stars  as Elizabeth and Matthew Rhys (The Americans) as Darcy. (I'm looking forward to watching Martin. I'm hoping she's as good in the role as Jennifer Ehle was in 1995's Pride and Prejudice.)

Death Comes to Pemberley airs in two 83 minute parts with the conclusion airing next week.

The Library has P.D. James' novel as well as DVDs of Bletchley Circle and Pride and Prejudice.

Here's the trailer for a preview of the PBS show: