In honor of our month-long celebration of All Hallows Read here at the Library, this week’s Five Book Friday will be showcasing some of our favorite creepy, ghoulish, and eerie books that we have on display for you this month (scary books have the best adjectives). Some of these books are tried-and-true, staff-approved scary-stuff, and … Continue reading A Frightening Five Book Friday
It was a dark and stormy weekend. I was sitting at the circulation desk listening to the books whisper secret tales of goblins, ghosts, and other things that slinky around in the shadows… Oh…did you not know that books can whisper? If you’re friendly to them, and sit very quietly, sometimes you can catch … Continue reading Something wicked this way comes…..
So, how many of you were at a midnight release party for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? The release of the printed script for the West End production is one of the biggest releases of the year…indeed, of the past few years….and calls to mind the release parties held around the world in honor of … Continue reading Books in the Headlines
Today’s post, Beloved Patrons, is brought to you courtesy of jetlag, that delightful side-effect of hurtling the human body through multiple time zones at hundreds of miles per hour. Though that description does make returning home sound something like time-travel, which sounds like fun, the actual result is that one knows neither if they are coming … Continue reading Five Book Friday!