Choices, Choices

December 23, 2017

I’m off work now until Wednesday, December 27. And, I have piles and piles of books all over the house. How do I choose? Honestly, I pick a library book, a couple books coming out in the next couple months, a couple books I own. Then, I start sampling until one...

I’d Rather Be Reading by Guinevere De La Mare

December 08, 2017

I’m a sucker for books about books or reading. Guinevere De La Mare’s little book is really just a gift item, but it has a few charming pieces in it. I’d Rather Be Reading is subtitled “A library of art for book lovers.” Guinevere De La...

The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams

October 30, 2017

I’m recommending Ellery Adams’ new series, beginning with The Secret, Book & Scone Society, to everyone who loves Adams’ Books by the Bay mysteries, readers who love Sarah Addison Allen, and all of us who love books about books. She’s...

Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence

September 26, 2017

If every public librarian, working and retired, buys a copy of Annie Spence’s Dear Fahrenheit 451, she’ll have a hit on her hands. It has a long subtitle, “Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks, A Librarian’s Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the...

Morningstar: Growing Up with Books by Ann Hood

September 03, 2017

Author Ann Hood is only a few months older than me. As a lifelong reader, her memoir, Morningstar: Growing Up with Books, made me nostalgic for my adolescence. No, not for the adolescence itself. For the discovery and freshness and awakening brought about by...