Lawrence Public Library Staff reveal their top picks for media discoveries in 2021
A City Pop Summer
More so than any other season, summer finds me relistening to my favorite oldies—Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and more start showing up in the late spring and a month later, they’re dominating the airwaves. What can I say? The sixties and summer are perfect complements. This year though, I’ve been bopping my head…
Goodbye PS4, We Hardly Knew Ye
The PS4 is dead. Long live the PS5.
Late last year, a new generation of video game consoles debuted
LPL Best of 2020: Media
It's no secret that 2020 was a stinker of a year, but here are some of the silver linings that got LPL staff through it. This time around, we didn’t limit our media choices to things published in 2020, instead we just asked for whatever people loved the most (but most of them ended up…
BYOBB
3rd Tues | 7 - 8:30 PM | Zoom Come unwind with the #BookSquad. We'll be sipping tea, whiskey, wine and the sorts while we talk books. 📚☕️🍷 We'd love to see your beautiful shining faces and hear what you've been reading these days! 🌞 Join us digitally on Zoom! (Contact Polli — pkenn@lplks.org — for…
The Weird and Wild World of Manga
Turns out at a time where the world often seems to be falling apart, the stories I most want to read are quick moving, adventurous romps that refuse to get bogged down in melancholy.
LPL Best of 2019: Media Edition
Here at LPL we love to read, but that’s not all we love. Here are some of our favorite 2019 movies, music, TV shows, and video games. All available—except for s
Rabbit, Ronin
About once a year, I discover a massive, decades old manga or comic series that for whatever reason I have never picked up before and just fall in love. Recent series in this vein include Akira Toriyama’s frenetic fighter Dragon Ball, the absolutely wacky, juvenile, and moving magical pirate adventure One Piece, the campy sci…
Revisiting The Once and Future King
Inspired by Leah’s look at some new and old Arthurian classics earlier this year, I decided to revisit T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, one of my very favorite books and the Arthurian apple of my eye. Published in 1958, The Once and Future King is an all at once hysterical, beautiful, silly…
The Boss at 70
Bruce Springsteen’s 70th birthday—September 23—seemed as good a reason as any to pester my coworkers with an all staff three question survey about the Boss. Here’s an unofficial look at the library’s Springsteen stances. Q1:When was the Boss at his dreamiest? As you can see above, about half of the library’s staff didn’t answer, but…
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