A Cure for Cabin Fever
It has been so cold and snowy lately that almost everyone is getting a bit of cabin fever. With cabin fever comes that antsy feeling of wanting to do something...
Posted by on February 17, 2014
Gardening with An Inspirational Touch
Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart to read. The author, Carol Wall, is a contributor to Southern...
Posted by Adult Services on February 12, 2014
The Giver Quartet
As both a book lover and a movie fan, I have much to look forward to in 2014 since quite a few book-to-movie adaptations...
Posted by Adrian L. on February 7, 2014
What a Life!
There are a growing number of children and teens who are expanding their casual reading to include nonfiction selections. Of these selections, biographies are a favorite. To meet this interest,...
Posted by on February 4, 2014
Stories We Tell
Take This Waltz) has turned her camera on her own family by interviewing various relatives and friends to ask about their memories of her mother, Diane, during the time before Sarah was born. Sarah’s mother...
Posted by on January 24, 2014
The Circle
When I saw that The Circle by Dave Eggers, was on the best seller list, I immediately set out to get the first available copy – I’ve followed Eggers’ career since I...
Posted by on January 7, 2014
The First Phone Call From Heaven
A phone call from heaven? That would be a phone call not to miss! Mitch Albom hovers on the brink of believability as several characters in his new novel start...
Posted by Adult Services on December 23, 2013
What is Real?
It was Christmas Eve and I was four years old. As I was sitting on the couch, my older sister handed me a present from under the tree. I eagerly...
Posted by Adrian L. on December 13, 2013
Best Friend: A Dog at Your Side
It’s no secret that I am “a dog person.” Dogs have always been an integral part of my life since I trained my very first German Shepherd dog while still...
Posted by Adult Services on November 18, 2013
A Personal Glimpse: France Through Two World Wars
It is unusual to have two novels released within a few months of each other with a focus on France during wartime, and I thought I would give them a...
Posted by Adult Services on October 30, 2013
Vegan Indian Cooking
When I am having a bad day, I try to relieve it by going in my kitchen and cooking. My friends and my family will vouch for it. My kitchen...
Posted by on October 7, 2013
Books that Go Bump in the Night
As I continue my quest to read all of the 2014 Caudill and Bluestem nominated books, I’ve come across two reads that will fit the bill for lovers of scary...
Posted by on September 25, 2013
The Sixty-Eight Rooms
As a very young child, before I can even remember, I apparently caused trouble by playing in my older sister’s dollhouse. Fortunately, I had a mother who understood the undeniable...
Posted by Adrian L. on September 18, 2013
Bad Pharma
Bad Pharma provides insight into the cycle of developing, testing, and regulating drugs—and where that process can break down, a sort of meta-knowledge necessary to being a savvy and skeptical...
Posted by Kerry B. on August 28, 2013
Building Stories by Chris Ware
When Building Stories landed in circulation, fresh from processing, it certainly got my attention—not least because its heft seemed more suitable for constructing a library than being shelved in one. With...
Posted by Kerry B. on August 5, 2013