I led a very misguided youth, my friends. A wild, rebellious life, full of dangling participles, chilled red wine, and moving parking cones around when I thought people weren’t looking…Ok, so maybe I wasn’t precisely a dangerous rebel, but there were mistakes made. For our purposes, let’s say that the greatest of these was the inability … Continue reading A Word About Book Recommendations
“Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.” –David Bowie This week has seen a profusion of grief, memories, and thoughts regarding the passing of rock star David Bowie. And while his legacy is still being debated and contested by those who … Continue reading “And the stars look very different today…”
It’s that time, once again, patrons, when our library’s genre devotees share with you their favorite romance selections for the month. Especially with the days grow shorter and the skies bleaker, romances feel more and more like the perfect antidote to these increasingly stressful days. So here are some of our favorites to brighten … Continue reading The Romance Garden!
Good friends…they aren’t easy to find in this world. But good friends are often the ones who show you the sides of yourself that you didn’t know were there, and introduce you to books you might never have read. Take, for example, an exchange between myself, and our fabulous Saturday Blogger, who goes by the … Continue reading Genre Talk: On magic, dragons, and friendship…
Today, we dip into our Bookish News file and pull up an editorial written by author Glen Duncan for The New York Times in October of 2011. The piece is, from its first sentence, a study in “nerd-baiting”, to borrow a phrase, though we should not ignore the charming threads of misogyny woven throughout the piece, beginning … Continue reading No-one Puts (zombie) Baby in a Corner…in defense of genre fiction (And some other things)
We’ve talked before about the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, and what a remarkable award it is, and how critically important it is to recognize women’s writing. Well, it turns out that the Baileys award people, including the dynamic women on the Fiction Board have given us some new reasons to celebrate this award, and all that … Continue reading The Baileys Prize: The Best of the Best!
Happy autumn, Beloved Patrons! Though the days are clearly growing shorter, the weather is certainly cooperating still, so we hope you get the chance to get out and enjoy the sunshine while it still smiles upon us. And indulge in all things pumpkin-flavored. And don’t forget to keep an eye out for the supermoon eclipse … Continue reading Five Book Friday!