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: Cleveland Summertime Memories, Wed., July 24, 6:30 pm, Willoughby Hills Library Description: Gail Bellamy will share information from her […]
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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. […]
Movie Review Halloween by Dennis Campbell In one of the more chilling lines of the film, Laurie Strode says of Michael, ‘he’s waited for this night…he’s waited for me…I’ve waited for him.’ I feel with how lackluster the sequels have been this quote also applies to the fans of this franchise. We have waited for […]
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 […]
Top Ten Films of the Year by Dennis Campbell Hello everyone, well, it is finally December and that means we have been treated to a whole year’s worth of movies. Unlike previous years I can honestly say that I enjoyed the majority of films I saw in theaters and was ecstatic when I found out […]
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 […]
Movie Review The Meg by Dennis Campbell Starring Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor, a deep-sea diver, The Meg is a fun and action-packed monster movie for everyone to enjoy. The film starts off with a bang as a group of researchers dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench with the belief that an entire […]
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 […]
