Polli discusses our community read, The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, and how paying the right amount of attention can bring a community closer.
Build Community and Connection at Booktoberfest
Readers' Services Coordinator Polli discusses the power of stories to connect us and the opportunities to build bookish community at this year's Booktoberfest events.
Genre Gems for Lit Fic Lovers
Here’s a story I tell myself: I don’t like sandwiches. They taste gross to me. They make me feel a little queasy and sad every time I try one. Here are the facts: I like some kinds of grilled cheese. I like BLTs when the mayo is right and the tomato is flavorful. I like…
Booktoberfest is Coming!
It is a truth universally acknowledged that we adults have fond memories of reading as a child. Participating in The Book It Program to get that Pizza Hut pizza. That decadent feeling when teachers allowed us “special reading time” on bean bag chairs at school. Giggling over getting caught reading with a flashlight under the…
055: The (Reading) Struggle is Real
We're back, we're back! The Book Squad Podcast is back! Kate Gramlich, our longtime cohost, has brazenly left the library for another job. (Everyone wave to Kate at her new job!) So along with starting back recording, Book Squad member Kimberly Lopez has taken up the mantle of shenaniganizing about books with Polli Kenn and…
Ode to (Unexpected) Joy
In defiance of a year that should be bundled into cat-pee and Clamato stained, rain-soaked carpet ripped from a rat-infested flophouse, driven in a 1977 Ford Econoline down a dark, potholed highway and dumped over a craggy ravine into a polluted quarry…I’m writing a hymn to the unexpected joys I found in 2020. Perhaps you’ll…
There’s Some Whores in This Blog…
Possibly you are questioning why I titled this blog the way I did. Possibly you are spluttering and clutching your pearls and thinking the library has Gone Too Far This Time. If you aren’t in the loop, like I wasn’t a week ago, it’s a play on a lyric in a very popular and hotly…
Up Lit? Don’t Mind If I Do!
“Reading is a route out of yourself” - author Matt Haig There are many books out there that are feel-good books. Books that just immediately sweep you into a beautiful place with lovely people and wonderful scenarios. You are tenderly wrapped in a gorgeous setting, everyone is likable, and the plot moves you from Good…
Pick Your Poison
There appears to be a virus making its way around the world. Maybe you've heard?
Gesundheit. Elbow sneezes, Tom!
Depending on your perspective, we're either o
Looking Out My Backdoor
Lawrence is blessed to have some great local author action, even when our local authors have flown off to live that Brooklyn literary life. Ben Lerner is one such author, and it is our luck that he will be here in Lawrence, speaking at LPL on October 5th at 7:00 pm. And it seems that…
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