To celebrate America’s semiquincentennial, Miranda and Brianna recommended media that dives into American history from the perspectives of those that have been traditionally underrepresented in the narrative. Here is what they recommended. Everything is available to check out in our catalog, on Libby, or on Kanopy! Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History written by Sam Maggs; […]
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We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle A Reader’s Vacation I have come to realize that people who love to read have their own special way of vacationing. It usually involves books (audio, print, or digital) and library sightseeing (or is that just a librarian thing?). Do you equip yourself […]
Movie Review Insidious: The Last Key by Dennis Campbell From the mind of Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan), and the pen of Leigh Whannell (Saw and Insidious 1 & 2), comes the fourth entry in the Insidious franchise. A problem which plagues most ongoing franchises that do not have source material is how […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle So, what is a bestseller? And should I care? As book lovers, we hear a lot about “bestseller lists”. Probably the most well-known and referenced is the New York Times Best Seller Lists, which are ranked lists of books sold in the United States. Notice I […]
Orphan Train: Book Review By Michelle Hudson, Communications & Development Associate for Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library. Critically acclaimed author Christina Baker Kline highlights the true story of thousands of abandoned children who were relocated from the East Coast to the Midwest between 1834-1929 in her international bestseller Orphan Train. Set in present-day Maine and Depression-era Minnesota, […]
Movie Review Ready, Set, Launch by Dennis Campbell Brought to life by famed director Stephen Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List), Ready Player One is a nostalgic odyssey that takes the viewer on a field trip through the 1980s. Based off the 2011 novel of the same name, written by Ernest Cline, the film is about an Earth […]
Movie Review Silent Film Profile: Kosuzume Tōge by Dennis Campbell Japan has one of the longer and richer histories when it comes to cinema, and this film is a fine example of that. Fitting in the genre, Jidaigeki, or what the West would know as a Period Piece. As with most period films, this one takes […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Love and Ruin by Paula McLain Knowing the ending doesn’t spoil this new novel at all. Paula McLain, Cleveland author of The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun, never expected to write this new novel. The Paris Wife was her luminous, bestselling historical […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle So much more than it seems. The Muralist by B. A. Shapiro is a novel that pulls the reader in to a world of art and artists, but also history. Yes, it’s another World War II historical fiction novel. Yes, the Holocaust plays […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Social Readers: What will your book group read ? I think of book club participants as social readers. Unless you are reading aloud to someone (one of the joys of sharing time with children!), the act of reading is a solitary one. You […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Bookstores are learning from libraries. Several years ago, libraries voiced concern about losing the interest of patrons who might be drawn to the glamour of bookstores. Since then we have been doing our best to emulate many of the marketing ideas found in […]
