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Under the Dome
I realize all the new fall shows have started, but I still have a recommendation for binge watching. novel by Stephen King that places the fictional town of Chester’s Mill Read more...
Posted by on September 26, 2014
Read the book… Seen the movie… Now what?
You read the book and then watched the movie but it is killing you to know what is going on in your favorite character’s life since the movie ended. Why Read more...
Posted by on September 24, 2014
Survival is Insufficient
Station Eleven. Taken from a Star Trek episode, they are painted on the lead wagon for the Traveling Symphony and Shakespeare Company. This motley group of actors and musicians roams Read more...
Posted by Adrian L. on September 19, 2014
Listen Up!
Ocean at the End of the Lane when it first came out last summer and loved every page. You meet a man who finds himself wandering to the old farm Read more...
Posted by Adult Services on September 17, 2014
Courage
Courage takes different forms – physical or emotional, extraordinary or simple. One might think a child’s act of courage to be much different than an adult’s, but that’s not necessarily Read more...
Posted by Adrian L. on September 8, 2014
Narrative Nonfiction
I just finished up a class for graduate school that was all about adult popular fiction. My favorite genre that we discussed was narrative nonfiction. I am not the biggest Read more...
Posted by Adult Services on September 3, 2014
Keeping you a Secret
This phenomenal young adult novel, written by nationally recognized LGBTQ author Julie Anne Peters, introduces us to Holland, an overachieving high school senior, who is president of her student council, Read more...
Posted by on August 29, 2014
Skottie Young: Savior of Nerddom
Friend, do you fear for the future of nerddom as I do? Do you look around in disbelief at the happy, normal couples – couples! – filling the seats of Read more...
Posted by Book Rex on August 13, 2014
The Mockingbird sang!
I read a big girl book! And it was non-fiction!! I know…shocking!!! All of my posts have been Young Adult with an occasional juvenile non-fiction thrown in from time to Read more...
Posted by on August 8, 2014
Minecraft for the Masses
If you Google Minecraft you get “about 99,000,000 results (0.28 seconds).” I will confess up front that I am not a gamer. So I have tried to make sure our Juvenile Read more...
Posted by on August 1, 2014
The Last Policeman Trilogy
What would you do if you were 100% certain the world was going to end in six months? An asteroid is on a direct course to Earth and not only Read more...
Posted by Adrian L. on July 25, 2014
Daytripper
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 tells you Read more...
Posted by on July 16, 2014
What the World Eats
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio. Menzel and D’Aluisio traveled to twenty-four countries to photograph families with their weekly diets. It’s a fascinating idea, Read more...
Posted by on July 14, 2014
Dixit
I played Dixit for the first time last week and it was a really fun game, centered on creativity and imagination. It starts by giving each player a hand of Read more...
Posted by Book Rex on July 2, 2014
Forbidden Island
My brother Matt was a board-flipper. Perhaps you know someone like that. You’re in the middle of playing a board game when the game turns sharply in your favor and Read more...
Posted by Adrian L. on June 27, 2014