Hello, fellow grown up anime and manga fans! My name is Bryn and I am back with more recommendations for you to read/watch this month of October! To start things off with a treat… My first rec is a manga series! Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku is a romantic comedy that follows a cast […]
Welcome to the next installation of Books, Board Games, and More with Bryn! This month I am focusing on the wide world of Resident Evil. It’s spooky season, so let’s get zombified! As you may or may not know, Resident Evil is a video game that originally came out in 1996. Paving the way for […]
Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library is on the November 4 ballot as Issue 21. This is a 2 mill renewal levy. Homeowners pay $41.00 per year, which is $3.42 per month, per $100 thousand assessed property value. This is not a tax increase. The levy comprises 42% of our operating budget and is essential for the library’s […]
Hello, fellow otaku! Are you ready for more recommendations? Good/Too bad, let’s get started! Based off the manga by Ai Yazawa, NANA is one of the series I’d recommend if you want to have some feels. About two girls who coincidentally meet on the same train to the same place (and have the same name- […]
Bored with a postbox full of bills and junk mail? Postcrossing spruces up mail retrieval while giving participants occasions to get creative with paper and make connections with snail mail lovers from different corners of the world (210 participating countries and territories, to be precise). Originally a side project he tinkered with as a student […]
Books, Board Games, & More with Bryn Hello and welcome to the next installment of Books, Board Games, and More (with Bryn)! It’s September, which means summer is fading and fall is rolling in. Let’s explore some fun options for you in this month of shifting seasons! The Legend of Zelda is a game that […]
Welcome to Anime for Adults, a blog series where librarian Bryn offers suggestions from the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library’s collection for anime, manga, and graphic novels that might appeal to an adult audience. Just because we’re grown-ups doesn’t mean we can’t indulge our inner otakus! Kicking off this blog series, the first anime I must recommend […]
There are things in the book you could never do in a movie -Noah Hathaway Do you agree? Disagree? Our upcoming reading challenge might give you a chance to ponder. The temperatures are dropping, which means the annual all-ages autumn reading challenge is back! This year, participants will read great works that made it to […]
Last night, Make It Monday featured Eastlake Public Library’s two Cricut Makers, which can cut out custom shapes on paper, vinyl, sticker paper, and assorted other flat materials. A demonstration on using the Cricut Maker was the subject of a previous Power to the WEPL post. For this class, we designed custom stickers using Canva, a free […]
Welcome to Books, Board Games, and More, a blog series where librarian Bryn showcases some of the board games, video games, tabletop roleplaying games, and adjacent items that the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Libraries own! Join us for a unique feature of what’s available to you. In the inaugural post of this series, I am undertaking the […]
