Have you resolved to read outside your normal reading tendencies? If so, and you would like to read more scary stories, I can suggest a good book to dip your toe into this genre. The Invited by Jennifer McMahon (2019; 353 pages) is marketed as a ghost story, but don’t let this scare you too [...]
Some people like novels. Some people like biographies. But have you ever considered reading a book of essays? I know, I know - it sounds like homework. But I like to think of essays as the short stories of nonfiction. I realized recently that I love reading long, in-depth opinions and articles on the internet, [...]
A new year, a new crop of books to be excited about! Hundreds and hundreds of books will be published in 2020 and I know that as the year goes on I'll learn about more and more awesome books. But here are a handful of upcoming books that I'm particularly excited about! What books are [...]
Happy New Year's from your library friends! Image by Taweesak Chansawatwirot from Pixabay Are you making any resolutions this year? How about reading resolutions? This is a great time to reflect on your reading and think about what your reading goals are for 2020. Maybe you want to read more books. Maybe you [...]
The end of the year is always a fun time for readers because Best Books lists start coming out. These lists give you some great ideas for good books to read, books that other people thought were the best of the year! There are TONS of "best books" lists to peruse. If you want to look [...]
It's Christmas Eve and your library is closed today and tomorrow. And next week we'll be closed on New Year's Eve and New's Year's Day. We'll miss you! I hope you stopped by to stock up on reading, viewing, and listening material over the holidays. But if you forgot or if you're out of town, [...]
Hi Everyone! As my gift to you this holiday season, I’m going to share some information about a really great resource we have at the library that many people don’t know about....Databases! There are so many times that patrons need information about a topic(s) and we may not have a book for them, but we [...]
As Christmas approaches and many of us are doing our last minute shopping in this hectic traffic, I thought it might be nice to compare Christmases. I've included here an article from Christmas in the early 1800s, one from the mid-1800s, and an excerpt from an oral history interview about Christmas in the 1930s. Enjoy! [...]
The end of the year is a good time to take stock of our past. It's also the time every "best books of the year" list comes out. In honor of this happy convergence, here are some of the best books of the year in the field of history. The Five: The Untold Lives of [...]
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot (1939; 64 pages) Some cats "are sane and some are mad / and some are good and some are bad / and some are better and some are worse / but all may be described in verse." Apart from offering practical advice on how to name [...]