Who Likes to Rock the Party? Librarians Like to Rock the Party.
Desk Set, the New York librarian social group, conducted a Trivia Night this past Thursday at the lovely bar Black Rabbit in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They allowed me to read off the questions in the Children’s & Young Adult Literature category. It included queries about which novel contains the first line "It was a dark and stormy night" and what the "E" in "E.L. Konigsburg" stands for (do YOU know?). The bar provided free absinthe shots for bonus questions, there were at least three NYPL children’s librarians present (boo-yah!) that I knew of, and everyone seemed to have a great time.
A big thank you to the Desk Setters who invited me along. Also thanks to our M.C. of the evening, Cadillac French, shown here.
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About Betsy Bird
Betsy Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Kirkus, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on BlueSky at: @fuse8.bsky.social
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A wrinkle in time…. And I did not have to use the Internet either.
Elaine Konigsberg.
And you beat me to “Wrinkle in Time.”
Jane
Jane beat me to Elaine; but “It was a dark and stormy night” is originally the first line of a novel by Bulwer-Lytton, though I don’t know which one, as well as of every novel Snoopy ever starts.