(Banned Books Week is October 1-7. Ahead of this, and our Banned Books Reading Challenge, our Collection Services Librarian wrote this thoughtful post about book challenges, lending context and historical perspective to this important and continually timely issue.) Download the list of Banned Books here: https://bit.ly/3roIEUk Find a list of Top 30 Banned Books for […]
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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 […]
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, […]
