We’re All Adults Here

The Muralist

We’re All Adults Here: March Edition

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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 also history. Yes, it’s another World War II historical fiction novel. Yes, the Holocaust plays […]

A Piece of the World

Social Readers: Book Group Reads

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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 joys of sharing time with children!), the act of reading is a solitary one. You […]

Only Child by Rhiannon Navin

We’re All Adults Here: January Edition

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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 have been doing our best to emulate many of the marketing ideas found in […]

Christmas With The Rat Pack

We’re All Adults Here: December Edition

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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 our digital collection of eBooks, audiobooks, movies and music available through hoopla? In the hurried days ahead, […]

Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Which doorways do you pick?

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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 the Librarian action figure? That’s her!). She is an expert in matching books with readers, and […]

Code Girls by Liza Mundy

We’re All Adults Here: November Edition

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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 titles are trending: Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore;  The Woman Who Smashed […]

Little Fires Everywhere

We’re All Adults Here: October Edition

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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 discussions to be an enrichment to my own solitary reading experience. The best discussion books […]

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