{"id":3872,"date":"2022-05-24T16:12:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2022-05-24T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:12:47","slug":"adult-reads-the-memory-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/adult-reads-the-memory-librarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Reads: The Memory Librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">The full title of this book is \u201cThe Memory Librarian, and Other Stories of Dirty Computer\u201d and it comes from the endlessly inventive mind of Janelle Mon\u00e1e, a highly accomplished singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion icon. Now she can add author to her impressive resum\u00e9!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">Mon\u00e1e\u2019s dystopian science fiction concept album \u201cDirty Computer\u201d was a critical and commercial success. It was first accompanied by an award-winning short film (or an \u201cemotion picture\u201d as she has called it) and now by this collection of stories, each written in collaboration with an author of speculative fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">The idea of life within a futuristic totalitarian state is not a new one in contemporary science fiction, but Mon\u00e1e and her co-writers dive head first into issues such as racism and the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. Even in the darkest depths of an oppressive state, the authors allow their characters to find optimism, love, and hope for a better future. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">You don\u2019t have to be a fan of Janelle Mon\u00e1e to appreciate this collection of stories, but if you\u2019re a fan of her music or other works, be sure to check it out.<\/span><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">Douglas Davey<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">Manager, Library Services<br \/>\nWSPL<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full title of this book is \u201cThe Memory Librarian, and Other Stories of Dirty Computer\u201d and it comes from the endlessly inventive mind of Janelle Mon\u00e1e, a highly accomplished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":[],"_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}