I want to tell you about a wonderful book I read recently. I couldn't put it down and I kept reading bits of it out loud to my partner because I had to chare the joy it was bringing me. When The Angels Left the Old County by Sacha Lamb is a queer immigrant fairytale [...]
Royal-watchers everywhere know that this past weekend marked the coronation of King Charles III of England. If that got you hungry for a royal reading list, hold onto your fascinators! George VI and Elizabeth: the Marriage That Saved the Monarchy is a new book-- so new our copy isn't on the premises yet-- about Charles [...]
Next Tuesday, April 18, is Yom Hashoah, the Jewish Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust. Our Dusting Off the Classics book group read the diary of Anne Frank for our meeting last week, which I recommend as a way to personalize the value of the lives lost to the violence of the Holocaust. Some of [...]
When people say Black Lives Matter, they aren't asking just for focus on Black suffering. Black joy matters, too. In honor of Valentine's Day and this wonderful book (pictured above) in our library's collection, here are some dreamy romances about Black characters. If you like contemporary romance and haven't read Talia Hibbert yet, congratulations on [...]
This is a time of year when many of us are overextended and stressed. It's also a time when we find ourselves reflecting on our habits and making plans for how we want to live in the upcoming year. Can we go on doing as much as we are doing? Can we justify doing less [...]
This is the last full week of Native American Heritage Month, and the week our nation observes its Thanksgiving celebration. To honor those who lived here first, as well as our national pastime of eating delicious food, let's take a look at two cookbooks in the library collection with insight and history into indigenous food [...]
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danworth (recommended by Abby) This is a perfect book to sink your teeth into this spooky season: a creepy, queer, absorbing metafiction about a haunted boarding school. Dual narratives - one in the early 1900s at the Rhode Island boarding school and one in modern day Hollywood - weave [...]
A new Silvia Moreno-Garcia book excites the book community tremendously, especially after her blockbuster hit Mexican Gothic struck it big in 2020. Every one of her books explores a different genre, and she's delved into science fiction with her latest, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. It's a take on the classic HG Wells novel The [...]
If you're like me, you grew up with only the vaguest idea of what Labor Day was celebrating. But Labor Day is actually pretty cool! The labor rights movement gave workers a lot of protections that enabled working class people to build better lives for themselves and their families. Labor rights are really having a [...]
Since it exploded on BookTok last year, Taylor Jenkins Reid's 2017 novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has stayed checked out, and with the announcement of a Netflix adaptation coming in the future, that's not likely to get better anytime soon. So if you're looking for something that might actually be on our shelves [...]
