We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle I have been doing a lot of reading this summer and the month of September is dropping a slew of new books by great authors. Three that I…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle We are starting to appreciate how important truck drivers are to libraries. On July 1, there was a switch to a new provider for the daily delivery service…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Have you placed a hold on a library eBook and then been dismayed to see the estimated time when it will be ready as “several weeks”? And then…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Yes, I’m on My Phone Again..READING! You’re on your phone too much. Have you heard that from someone or from the little voice in your head? I would…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Authors and Librarians are Mutual Fans. Authors are the rock stars of the library world, and librarians (along with avid readers) are their devoted fans. But many authors…
We’re All Adults Here 2021 Adult Reading Challenge: 10 to Try by Amanda Schoen As we move into spring, we at WEPL are at the advent of a new reading journey to challenge our biggest readers. If you are a…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Our buildings are open! To help return to some library normalcy, I have ideas for new books to read. One was just published, and the other two are…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle A different January. Last January I titled my blog post: “Get Out of the Armchair and into the Library”. Twelve months later, I must title this blog post:…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Announcing hoopla 2.0! Hot Music, Holiday Films, ebooks and More. I love the music on hoopla. Taylor Swift’s brand new (December 11) album Evermore, is there right now…
We’re All Adults Here 2020 Book Discussion Reads by Amanda Schoen Happy Fall everyone. I know this is not the season many of us hoped for when we imagined this year. So many of us have missed fall activities such…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle/Sarah Vargo Gift Books for New Babies Yes, we’re all adults here, but children are part of our lives. I love to give books to children as gifts, I’m…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Facts Above the Fiction As an avid reader of fiction, I love experiencing the creativity and imagination of an author as they transport me virtually to new worlds…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Are you looking for normal? Books can do that. I am ready for normal. I know normal is not realistic right now, so in times like these I…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle We are Putting Books Back in Your Hands The CLEVNET catalog is fully open for business! This week, all holds became active and materials have started circulating between…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Library Work in a Safe, Virtual World Two months of working virtually was an interesting experience. For me, maintaining and enriching our digital access was not impacted by…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle What is the Library Collection? New Thinking in Tough Times. Have you seen our activities on our W-E Library YouTube channel? Can you tell we miss you?! In…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle True Confessions of a Fiction Reader: I Read It. I Wasn’t Wowed. Is there something wrong with me? Am I the only person who wasn’t wowed by Where…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Get Out of the Armchair and into the Library Libraries wouldn’t exist without authors and readers, and we do our best to connect the two. This season, Willoughby-Eastlake…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Happy Hoopla Holidays from WEPL You’re busy and stressed, I know. At this point in the holiday season, if you carve out a moment to read, you don’t…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle The School Zone Effect On my drive to work I enter a School Zone while the lights are flashing, and speeds are reduced. I notice the drivers around…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle What’s going on behind the shelves? When you stop by one of our libraries, there are friendly staff in the building who make your visit pleasant and easy.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle The holiday season has arrived, and we are lending many seasonal music CDs and DVDs from our library building collections. Are you aware that the “collection” of the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library includes…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Which doorways do you pick? Last month I had the rewarding experience of learning about personal doorways into a book from Nancy Pearl, the famous Seattle librarian (have you seen…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Have you noticed a trending sub-genre in books and film over the last couple of years? I call it the “The Women behind the Scenes” theme. Currently, three…
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle As the new Collection Services Librarian for the Willoughby-Eastlake Library System, I am thrilled to be immersed in the world of books and reading. I have found book…