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Lost in Translation: What I’ve been Reading
As summer comes to a close and fall is just around the corner, I wanted to revisit and highlight a few manga series that would make great companions to cozy up with as the seasons change. “Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku,” or its English title, “The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity,” written by Saka…
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Tonies & Yotos at the Library
By a Librarian-Mom If you are a parent, grandparent, caregiver, child, toddler, preteen, teacher, or … other, you may have noticed these strange boxy-things in toy stores, Targets, libraries, and on ads. Somehow they’re related to books … or music? Or yoga? Or meditation? All of the above? Yes. Tonies and Yotos are both essentially…
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Wine & Words: What is Considered Timeless?
The Frederica Quartet by A.S. Byatt A well written novel is timeless. An author who can produce a novel of excellence is also timeless. Their use of language is almost like a drug, each time you read a piece of their writing you ascend into a state of euphoria. You escape into another realm of…
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No Buy? No Problem! Russell Library and the No Buy Movement
$27.40 cents a day doesn’t seem like a lot, does it? Yet by spending that amount each day, you will wind up spending $10,000 per year. It’s scary how fast money can slip away, almost unnoticed. Hence the No Buy 2025 movement. No Buy January, a trend that challenged folks to spend money only on…
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HallucinAItion
Can artificial intelligence be trusted? I could hardly believe my eyes. Could it be…? I’d heard about them, of course, but never experienced one before. It seemed so real until the illusion fragmented, degrading from factual to questionable to undeniably fictional. ChatGPT had not only fibbed, but admitted as much when I confronted the liar.…
The Library Vault
Voices from behind the scenes at Russell Library.
The Library Vault 