Hello Tennessee! & Valnetine's Day....Ha!

It would be easy, oh so easy to take the path of hearts and cupids for Valentine's day this year. Let's face it, in February, every store display, Hallmark commercial and ad in the paper is geared toward people in love. Well, not everyone is swept up in a romance. Some are in rocky or even dead relationships. There are some among us who must count a cat or an xbox as a significant other, and for whom every commercial for e-harmony feels like lemon juice in a paper cut! We know that for every true romance in one's life there are at least five brutal break-ups, two cases of paralyzation from "fear of commitment" and one death by general mailaise. It is to these people I dedicate this months "Black Valentine's Day" display to. You will find no romance novels here, just titles that look at the other side of romance like: He's Just Not That Into You, The Myth of Monogamy and The Other Woman.

I recently installed software into this blog which allows me to get statistical reports for things like how many people are looking at the site, what part of the world they are from and so on. It is a great way to confirm that there actually are people looking at your site. It was very easy to do, and it was free from Google analytics.
When looking at the Stats yesterday, I found that we recently had a visitor from Tennessee. I don't know what brought them to us but, hello, thanks for coming.

I want to remind everyone that in April for Library Week, we will be participating in the
Long Island Reads program. The motto is "One Island, One Book" and the goal is to get as many people as possible in Nassau and Suffolk Counties to read the same book so we all can have something to talk about on check out lines. This year's book is Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee. Click on the link to find out more information.

Jay