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Get out of the armchair and into the library

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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 Public Library is offering a ton of opportunities for you to meet and hear from […]

Happy Hoopla Holidays from WEPL

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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 want to be waiting in line for books. Or audiobooks. Or music. Well, you passed […]

The School Zone Effect

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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 me relax as they enter the Zone, both literally and figuratively. Cruising at 20 mph […]

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What’s Going on Behind the Shelves: The Hidden Work of Library Staff

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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. However, your experience at a WEPL library is also supported by a lot of hidden […]

We Have a Winner. Or FOUR.

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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 […]

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The Trouble with Labels

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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 […]

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The Library Tourist

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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 […]

This May is a big month for new books.

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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 […]

The Overstory by Richard Powers book cover

It’s True. A Novel Leads to Facts.

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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 […]

Northcoast Writers' Showcase

Author, Author! Meet Imbolo Mbue

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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 […]

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