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Program Pairing: Preserving Your Family History Through Photographs

Below you will find an upcoming program paired with related movies, documentaries, books, music, and more to help you gain a wider understanding of the topic before or after the program.  Explore further, deepen your discovery, and connect to learning! The Program: Preserving Your Family History Through Photographs, Thurs., Aug. 8, 7 pm, Willoughby Library Description: Taking and editing high-quality digital […]

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True Confessions of a Fiction Reader: I Read It. I Wasn’t Wowed.

We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle True Confessions of a Fiction Reader: I Read It. I Wasn’t Wowed. Is there something wrong with me? Am I the only person who wasn’t wowed by Where the Crawdads Sing? This book was the bestselling hardcover of 2019, selling over a million […]

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Words on Screen: Swimming Pool

Words on Screen: Swimming Pool by Dennis Campbell ‘How did you get that scar on your stomach?’ ‘Is that for your book?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘The Gods did it.’ For the next set of reviews I am going to be talking about films that feature authors as the main characters. These movies can be fictional or based […]

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We Have a Winner. Or FOUR.

We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle We Have a Winner. Or FOUR. Librarian jobs aren’t known for stellar paychecks, but a perk of the job is access to books before they are published. Book publishers provide Advance Reader Copies (ARCs) to the librarians who will write reviews, who have […]

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Almost Famous: Movie Review

Movie Review Rewatch Value: Almost Famous by Dennis Campbell Breaking from tradition, this is a series where I take a look back on films from previous decades that I feel are worth looking into. Either for their impact on the film industry or because of my personal preference. Today, we are looking at film for […]

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The Trouble with Labels

We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle The Trouble with Labels When a reader wanders the library shelves looking for a mystery, what better way to find one than by the mystery sticker on the spine? WAIT. When you said you wanted a Mystery, did you mean a cozy by-the-fire […]

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Best Movies of 2019…So Far

Best of 2019…So Far by Dennis Campbell Since it is July, I thought it would be good for us to once again unpack all the movies that have been released in these quick six months. This year has been different compared to most years as we have had a large swath of genres, as opposed […]

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