The Library’s annual fall book sale is ongoing this week.  We are still accepting donations.  There are paperbacks, hardbacks, children’s books, puzzles, DVDs, etc.  Bag Day is Saturday; the cost per bag is $2 and we provide the bag. 

 

Also we are considering having a special book sale in early December for cookbooks.  So this might be a good time to go through your shelves and get rid of some of those older cookbooks and donate them.  I’ll mention the actual dates when we set them in this column.

 

The book sale occurs during the Library’s regular hours from Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturdays from 12 p.m. until 5 p.m.

 

Those of us who are television fans will enjoy a new book by critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz, “TV (The Book.)”  Both Sepinwall and Seitz put their expertise to the test to decide what the greatest television show of all time is.  Using a complicated scoring system, they’ve created a list of the top television series from vintage classics like “I Love Lucy” and “The Fugitive” to modern hits like “Mad Men” and “Friday Night Lights.”  Providing a brief essay on a host of television series, they discuss what singles each series out.

 

Finally, they discuss the top five series according to their scoring systems: “The Sopranos,” “The Wire,” “Breaking Bad,” “Cheers,” and “The Simpsons.”  Then in several chapters they itemize and debate what makes each series great and why one is greater than the others.  Every factor such as concluding episodes, plotting, inventiveness, acting, technical innovations and superiorities are argued, slowly eliminating series until Seitz and Sepinwall have it down to two, and then finally one. 

 

Fans of these series will find much to agree and disagree with, and they will enjoy the details and criticisms of such old favorites as “All in the Family,” “ER,” “Wiseguy,” and “Seinfeld.”  In a time of binge-watching, “TV (The Book,)” is a great place to find series you might have missed, or not appreciated enough.