Category: Book Reviews

• What Was Your Favorite Book This Year? Here Are Ten Books Librarians Loved in 2023

  Believe it or not, the end of 2023 has come and gone (which is WILD because it feels like it was July, like, yesterday). There are two questions I typically ask myself when December rolls around:1. Did I meet my reading goal this year?2. What was my favorite book I read this year and why?…

  brianarusselllibrary

  January 8, 2024

  Book Reviews

  AFeverIntheHeartland, AnnPatchet, AshelyPreston, BestBooks2023, Book Reviews, Davenports, DearMothman, FourthWing, HangtheMoon, Hester, JeannetteWalls, JessupWard, JohnMilas, KrystalMarquis, LanaFerguson, LetUsDescent, LicoAlbanese, MarcusBrotherton, RobinGow, TananariveDue, TheFakeMate, TheLongMarchHome, TheMilitiaHouse, TheReformatory, TheSevenYearSlip, TimothyEgan, TomLake, ToscaLee, WarriorGirl

• Wine and Words: “Memory, the Seamstress,” and Bubbly

  Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf  Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Virginia Woolf, Orlando, Chapter 2 Now, as readers we might be afraid of Virginia Woolf. Edward…

  sbarillari

  January 1, 2024

  Book Reviews, Recommendations, Wine & Words

  Champagne, Cremant, FrenchWine, Loire, Orlando, VirginiaWoolf

• The Return of the Light: Finding Comfort in Winter

  “This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.” ― Margaret Atwood, Eating Fire. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule, the Winter Solstice, Diwali, Soyal, Yalda, Dōngzhì, Lohri, New…

  Amy S.

  December 25, 2023

  Book Reviews, Inside Stories, Recommendations

  AChristmasCarol, EasternConnecticutParanormalSociety, ElizabethPeters, EmilyBronte, FiresideGhostStories, FossHill, GhostStories, Hygge, JacquelineFrost, JanBrett, JaneYolen, KatherineArden, LittleWomen, LouisaMayAlcott, MiddletownStrong, OwlMoon, Podcast, SecretsOfRussellLibrary, StalkingAroundTheChristmasTree, TheBearAndTheNightingale, TheMitten, TrojanGold, WinterSolstice, WutheringHeights

• Animation that Excites, Manga that Inspires

  As graphic novels are trending more and more, the term “manga” might have tickled your ear. What is manga and where did it come from? My name is Dillon, I am a new Library Associate here in our Information Services and Adult Learning Department. I’m here to shed some light on the subject.  Manga (pronounced…

  dillhelm

  December 18, 2023

  Book Reviews, Graphic Novels / Manga, Inside Stories, Kids and Teens, Library Services, Lost In Translation, Movies, Recommendations, Trending

  Anime, AsiaPacific, Cartoons, Comics, DCComics, GraphicNovels, Japan, Manga, Marvel, Toonami

• Whiskey & Words: The Lion is Dead

  “Wine & Words” has changed for this month. My apologies, to pair a wine with this specific biography would not do it justice. So, for this month it will be “Whiskey & Words.” Still a nice alliteration. A sensible play on words will journey us through the turn of the century. ‘What century?’ you ask.…

  sbarillari

  November 20, 2023

  Book Reviews, Recommendations, Wine & Words

  Bourbon, HWBrands, TeddyRoosevelt, TRTheLastRomantic, Whiskey