We are migrating to a new library catalog on October 28. This also means we will have a brand new library app! The app can be found here: Google Apple Current checkouts, holds, lists, and reading history will then continue with the new app. When you sign in to the new app, you will use […]
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We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Meet Imbolo Mbue Immigrants reaching for the American dream has been a plotline for stories since our country’s founding. It takes a skilled author to create empathy for a person from another culture struggling to gain membership in our country. In Behold the […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Your Book Concierge! How is your book club going? This recent article in Forbes https://bit.ly/2SQcwSu describes how the online presence of celebrities has added to the success and popularity of book clubs beyond the traditional setting. Instagram offers a photogenic platform for book […]
Did you miss one of the most popular titles of 2018? These are the top 20 most borrowed books from the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library. Borrow any of these titles today!
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle An act of resistance: return to deep reading “To read—to engage single-mindedly, for art rather than application—is in its way an act of resistance.”—Joe Amon Are you still doing the deep reading you used to do? You know what I mean, the type […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle I audio. Do you? Confessions of a transliterate reader Looking for a great book on audio? Try The Listen List, a librarian-curated list of outstanding audiobooks each year since 2012. The book descriptions in this list include “Listen-Alikes”, so when you love one […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Is a Coffin Just a Box? An apt question for the month of October, when death looms in our consciousness as Halloween and All Saints observances approach. The question of a coffin is explored by David Giffels, author of Furnishing Eternity: A Father, […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Have an Author Experience Meeting an author can bring a deeper dimension of appreciation for their book. As with media celebrities, an in-person author experience can deepen the understanding of their work and perhaps cause a bit of fandom, too. I wanted to […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle New Genre: Women Behaving Madly? As a book selector for Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library, I am noticing a trend in both fiction and nonfiction books. I call them “Women Behaving Madly books”. There are three nonfiction books being published this fall, and I wonder […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Character switch: How did I become Marmee? Have you returned to books you read years ago to see how age and experience have altered their value for you? Has their impact changed? Do you find other meaning from their stories now? I just watched […]
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 […]
