The final grains of sand are falling through the hourglass that is 2010. One and one half months to go. One month, one day until your loyal blogger's birthday. [If you don't know what to get, Barbancourt rum is always nice. C'mon, consider it a donation to needy Haitians.]
And with just a week of Library services left until Thanksgiving break (next Wednesday through Saturday), we have to start thinking of the holiday season. Holly, tinsel, razzleberry dressing, all that jazz. And while there are plenty of Christmas season blog post topics out there (like how you should buy our advent calendar... or how you need to get tickets now for the Unedited Christmas concert), I'm going to present one directly related to decking our halls...
Dear readers, what shall we put on the Christmas tree?
Last year, as you may recall, our book ornaments included tiny tomes from Josephine Pinckney, DuBose Heyward, Beatrice Witte Ravenel, and, of course, the December fundraiser guest of honor's latest book, South of Broad by Pat Conroy.
This year, they're all going back, along with miniature copies of The Fort, Bernard Cornwell's newest novel. [Take that as a reminder to reserve your tickets for Bernard now. Now!] But it's a big, big, Christmas tree a'comin, and we're gonna need more little, little books.
So how about it folks? Ideas, suggestions? What do we add to the Library's pantheon of Lowcountry literary greats this year? If you've got an idea, leave it in the comment section, email us, call, write, carrier pigeon, whatever it takes, get it to us. The CLS staff will pick the best submissions, and on December 1st, we'll put it to an online vote. Whomever wins will be immortalized in the boughs of the Library's tree for generations to come. Quite the honor!
Josephine Humphreys
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