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…
Telling it True
“Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” ~ George Santayana. I recently had the honor of moderating a Historical Fiction panel of four authors, Julie Berry, Rachel DeWoskin, Stacey Lee, and Ruta Sepetys. I have this to report: if you love Historical Fiction, rest easy that the genre is in excellent…
And Who Wants a Sadly Ever After, Really
As we slowly roll into August, which also happens to be Read a Romance Month, I am taking some time out from sweating profusely to speak a few words to those of us who might already be fans of the genre, and share some facts with any of us who have ever said… “Ewww, romance?…
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