The Good Lie
Christine Maleno, Adult Services Programming Librarian, shares her latest movie recommendation: The Good Lie (2014) is a beautiful movie inspired by the Sudanese civil war that began in the ‘80s,...
Posted by on November 12, 2015
Goodbye Stranger
Goodbye Stranger is the newest book by Rebecca Stead, author of the Newbery Award winning book When You Reach Me. Stead has a talent for creating plots that include an...
Posted by Book Rex on July 27, 2015
Our Souls at Night
Even at first sight, this small volume by Kent Haruf drew me in although I had four other books to consider reading on my nightstand. Why did it attract me?...
Posted by Adult Services on July 6, 2015
More Things in Heaven and Earth
Are you missing the town of Mitford? Do you long for a trip to Lake Wobegon? I have another small, quaint town for you to visit this summer. Watervalley, Tennessee...
Posted by Adrian L. on June 30, 2015
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted
Illinois Reads is a yearly statewide project to promote reading for all Illinois citizens. Established under the Illinois Reading Council, reading is encouraged at all age levels, from babies to...
Posted by Adult Services on June 17, 2015
The Royal We
To celebrate the birth of Princess Charlotte, the newest addition to the British Royal Family, I decided to fall head first down a rabbit hole of Kate Middleton/Prince William romantic...
Five Days Left
Five Days Left by Jennifer Lawson Timmer is the story of two people connected through an online forum for parents with non-traditional parenting arrangements. Mara Nichols is a 42-year-old, Indian-Canadian...
Posted by on May 15, 2015
Exquisite Corpse
Exquisite Corpse by Penelope Bagieu is a great read that explores the concept of ego and the question, “What do you deserve?” The art is a classic black and white,...
Posted by Book Rex on May 8, 2015
Paper Cowboy
I am very much a native of the western suburbs of Chicago. My only homes have been in Downers Grove and Westmont, and I’ve always felt that suburbia was a...
Posted by Adrian L. on May 1, 2015
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Sometimes all the drama happening in the school yard has nothing to do with children and everything to do with parents. In the novel Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty,...
Posted by on April 20, 2015
The Art of Secrets!
Arson, possible hate crime, losing everything, gaining new things, a school benefit, new friendships, a fortune in lost art found only to be lost again, intrigue, mystery, and so much...
Posted by on April 17, 2015
Inside the O’Briens
Lisa Genova has yet again found the perfect vehicle for a sincere, funny, heart-wrenching story with her east coast family story, Inside the O’Briens. I find that reading her novels is...
Posted by Adult Services on April 6, 2015
Mouse Mansion
Each week, I feel privileged to share some beautiful, fun, and educational picture books with large groups of children in our storytimes here at the Westmont Library. Lately, though, a...
Posted by Adrian L. on April 3, 2015
Daytripper
Daytripper by Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon is the most spellbinding, jarring, and exquisite graphic novel I have ever read. It fills the dreamless void with dreams worth living. It...
Posted by on July 16, 2014