Back when I worked in reference, the library received an envelope postmarked from Santa Rosa, California with our address scrawled across the lower left hand corner in untidy, barely legible print. Inside was a 20 page letter, written in the same hand, requesting information on the alleged paranormal activity at the Eldridge Hotel featured on…
Finding Pride in the Stacks
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel…is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.” – Ursula K. Le Guin For me, the public library has always been place of possibility and self-discovery. As a gay…
What Would Alfred Read? A Failed Summer Reading Challenge
In the summer of 2011, I came up with the perfect challenge: read at least one title by each of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature since its first awarding in 1901 and blog about my thoughts and reflections. I had the best title for my blog too: What Would Alfred Read? (The…
Five Fictional Families Who Are Probably More Dysfunctional Than Yours
Ah, Thanksgiving. The perfect holiday to kick back with your closest of friends and family, stuff yourself to the gills with turkey and mashed potatoes, and pass out on the couch.If your family was anything like mine, though, Thanksgiving was always fraught with stress and tension. Whether it was balancing schedules with in-laws or remembering…
Nancy Pearl’s Rule of 50 and the Books I Did Not Finish
It’s typically a rare case for me not to finish a book. At some point, I think I convinced myself that not finishing was giving up on an author or myself as a reader. But I have come to understand that neither of those is true at all. For whatever the reason, it’s okay to…
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