On one of the library tours that I gave last January, a student asked me […]
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, by Caitlin Doughty
Surprisingly, I’m the first person to check out my library’s copy of Caitlin Doughty’s Smoke […]
Wylding Hall, by Elizabeth Hand
In 1972 a folk-rock band retreated to a crumbling Tudor manor house to work on […]
Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
Literature matters. I could argue for hours about the importance of stories and the transformative […]
A librarian’s lament
A few years ago, I was watching Inkheart with my sister and her kids. We had […]
Viper Wine, by Hermione Eyre
Between the two of them, husband and wife Sir Kenelm Digby and Venetia Stanley embody […]
So you want to read more…
Periodically, the bookish sites that I follow will publish a list of tips to help […]
The Porcelain Thief, by Huan Hsu
The last three generations of Huan Hsu’s family have suffered every upheaval of Twentieth century […]
The Library of Unrequited Love, by Sophie Divry
I know so many people who would hate the librarian depicted in Sophie Divry’s novella, […]
The World Before Us, by Aislinn Hunter
After we are gone, all that’s left for the living are documents and photographs and […]