{"id":323,"date":"2016-02-03T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/?p=323"},"modified":"2016-02-10T09:04:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T09:04:05","slug":"mockingbirds-and-cuckoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/2016\/02\/03\/mockingbirds-and-cuckoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Mockingbirds and Cuckoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The library&#8217;s most borrowed books are all textbooks. Of course it is important that our library acts as a resource, but what can it offer you after you have completed your reading from Davidson&#8217;s <em>Principles and Practice of Medicine<\/em>? Certainly, <strong>we have more than textbooks here!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">We compiled a list of some novels and autobiographies that the library holds. From Anne Frank&#8217;s <em>The Diary of a Young Girl<\/em> to Milan Kundera&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being<\/em>, this list is full of great, thought-provoking reads:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Junot Diaz, The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (PS3554.I259 Dia.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (PS3606.O38 Foe.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (DS135.N6 Fra.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (PS3558.E476 Hel. )<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest (PS3561.E667 Kes. )<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (PG5039.21.U6 Kun.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (PS3562.E353 Lee. )<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (DT1949.M35 Man.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (PR6029.R8 Orw.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (QA76.2.P38 Pau.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (PS3537.A426 Sal.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kathryn Stockett, The Help (PS3619.T636 Sto.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">We were in the foyer of the Main Library today asking students which book on the list they found most inspiring.\u00a0<em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> was the clear winner, while\u00a0<em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Catch-22<\/em> were tied for second place, closely followed by\u00a0<em>The Catcher in the Rye<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Do you agree? Tell us which of these books you find most inspiring! Haven&#8217;t read them? It only takes six minutes of quiet reading to relax you, so borrow one from the library and start today! You never know what might come from it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-326 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/02\/winners-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"winners\" width=\"464\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/02\/winners-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/02\/winners-768x356.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/02\/winners-1024x475.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/02\/winners-624x290.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The library&#8217;s most borrowed books are all textbooks. 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