Reader’s Advisory: 5 Events This Weekend

August 5 is the birth anniversary of John Huston, actor, writer and director (1906). Come to the Library and take out one of his movies on DVD: Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, or The Misfits. (Marilyn Monroe is one of the performers in The Misfits, and Friday is also the anniversary of her death in 1962.)

August 6 – Lucille Ball was born 100 years ago. Take out a season of I Love Lucy on DVD or read her autobiography Love, Lucy. The Library also has Coyne Sanders’ Desilu: the Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

August 6- Head to the Easton Farmer’s Market for the Sweet Corn Festival. Looking for new ways to cook this seasonal treat? Try Corn: Roasted, Creamed, Simmered+ More by Olwen Woodier (2002). You’ll find 140 recipes – everything from chowders to main courses to desserts.

August 7 is Sisters Day. Read one of these 2011 novels: The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen and The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown or the 2011 biography Sisters of Fortune: America’s Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad.

August 7 is also the anniversary of Philippe Petit‘s (illegal) World Trade Center tightrope walk in 1974. Borrow the award-winning DVD Man on a Wire. Read Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin, winner of the 2009 National Book Award. The stories of ten New Yorkers are interwoven by their experience of Petit’s walk. For children there’s The Man Who Walked Between the Towers.