Our Children’s staff keep current on all the new children’s book releases. And, to help each other out, they write short reviews of new titles to share with each other. Now, we want to share them with you! All of these titles are staff approved and available in the Clevnet catalog. Happy Reading! Read past reviews […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Movie Review US by Dennis Campbell And to think, if it weren’t for you…I never would’ve danced at all.’ Poignant. Captivating. Chilling. These are just three words that I could use to describe Jordan Peele’s sophomore film, Us. After terrifying audiences with his debut picture, Get Out (2017), Peele returned to the silver screen with […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle The Library Tourist Last year on my summer vacation https://we247.org/readers-vacation/ I marveled at the Seattle Public Library. This year, I am again a library tourist. I spent a couple of days in Austin, TX and had 3 goals: Eat some great Texas barbecue […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle This May is a Big Month for New Books As an acquisitions librarian (basically a book buyer for your Willoughby-Eastlake public library) one of the parts of my job that I love is having a box of ARCs land on my desk. ARCs […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle It’s True. A Novel Leads to Facts. Do you ever find reading a novel to lead you to dig deeper into the facts behind the story? I frequently find myself reading nonfiction because, well…SCIENCE. After reading the novel The Overstory (which just won […]
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 […]
Movie Review Eastrail 177 Trilogy by Dennis Campbell As James McAvoy delivers the opening narration as Patricia, woven underneath the chilling performance is seemingly a message from Director M. Night Shyamalan, ‘trust me, as you always have.’ As I watched the credits roll on what had been a trilogy nearly two decades in the making. […]
