Tracy Memorial Library Reading Resources

A PAGE DEEPER

THE ROAD WASHES OUT IN SPRING
by Baron Wormser

As Winter's premonitions shiver our timbers, pull your chair closer to the wood stove and light the reading lamp. Baron and Janet Wormser lived on a dead-end, dirt road, 'in the middle of so-called nowhere'. They found mystical satisfaction in their day to day lives of cooking, tending fires, bringing in wood, lugging water, growing their own vegetables, observing with pleasure the necessity and beauty of their 'rituals that reflected the weather and seasons'. They found time to read and read and starlight nights ran so long Wormser found plenty of time for reflection and to write and re-write his poetry, revision taking him months and years until he eventually would 'hit the wall of finitude'. Wormser's A Poet's Memoir of Living Off The Grid describes how 'the fire they made each day was the metaphorical core of their days in the woods', the unintentional beauty of 'living in a house whose technologies were primitve and felt like living in a poem'. Put another log in the stove and enjoy this book.

C.D.

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Websites for Readers

Novelist

Novelist
A reader's advisory service that provides information and resources on over 100,000 titles, 75,000 full-text reviews, and more than 36,000 subject headings to help locate the best in fiction. Access to this database is provided by NH State Library and requires a username and password. Please call, email, or visit the library and we'll be happy to provide the information you need to use this resource. You may also make an appointment to have a librarian teach you how to use Novelist.

Literary Awards

International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
An annual international award based on literary merit. Books are nominated, a short list is created and one winner is selected.
The Pulitzer Prizes Fiction and nonfiction winners make great choices for book discussions
The Booker Prize This annual award is chosen from publisher-nominated books. All entries must be full length novels written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan or South Africa.
National Book Award Awarded to an American author for a book published in the current year. The award is given in October during National Book Month.

NH Authors

The New Hampshire State Library provides a list of New Hampshire authors, both living and dead. The list includes individuals born in NH, as well as NH transplants.

NH Center for the Book

The Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library was established to celebrate and promote reading, books, literacy, and the literary heritage of New Hampshire and to highlight the role that reading and libraries play in enriching the lives of the people of the Granite State.

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Websites for Readers

Novelist

Literary Awards

NH Authors

NH Center for the Book