Category: Recommendations

• Wine & Words: A Somm’s Guidebook

  Welcome to the New Year! We are either excited and still proactively working on our resolutions, or we are among the “antiresolutionist.” Either way, if you are looking to get into wine and don’t know where to start – then here it is. Simply drink! Visit your local ‘packy’ and start buying the ten dollar…

  sbarillari

  January 22, 2024

  Book Reviews, Recommendations, Wine & Words

  AdventuresOnTheWineRoute, BiancaBosker, CorkDork, KermitLynch, Sommeliers, TastingAdvice, WineBooks, WineIndustry, WineTasting

• 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