As I am writing this, we are now in the midst of winter. It means long cold nights with nowhere to go. Days being stuck inside due to more miserable weather and COVID. I am desperate for some escape TV. Now that The Office is no longer on Netflix and I have pretty much exhausted…
Maybe You Like The Smurfs
Let me just get this out of the way and say that crafting a blog right now is kinda hard. Who knows how different our world will be between this writing and when it's published. We witnessed a literal attack on our democracy just a few days ago. Hallowed halls were defaced and defiled, 5…
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…
New Year, New Reads: 2021 Reading Goals for Kids
Planning a few New Year’s reads is a great way to help you diversify your reading habits. Here are my new reads for 2021.
Wonderbooks!
I've always loved audiobooks. Growing up, we always had them around the house (always from our local library). I especially loved the books that came with cassette tapes that would read the story aloud to you while you looked through a physical copy of the book. My personal favorite of these was my personal copy…
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…
LPL Best of 2020: Books
In a year when we needed the distraction more than ever, books were there for us. Here are the library staff's top reads of 2020. Brad, Director Begin Again The Broken Heart of America The Cold Millions Memorial Sarah, Accounts The best fiction book I read that was published in 2020 was Hamnet by Maggie…
A Year of Mending Holes
2020 taught me many things, and most of them can be described as “icky.” I’ll spare you the details -- you lived through all of them, too. Some of the things I learned were good, though, and it was of course a stack of library books that facilitated the best thing I learned this year:…
Intrepid Reads: Dimension 20 Inspired Book Recommendations
Some adventuring parties approach their quest with a serious mind and no shenanigans. Or, at least so I’ve been told. I’ve never met or played a game of Dungeons and Dragons that’s lacked some serious shenanigans. If that’s your flavor of D&D, have I got the show for you (and some book recommendations inspired by…
Librarian Reveals Truth About Classic Picture Book Authors and It’s Not What You Think
It’s been a long year of reading news on my phone, and among the many ways this has warped my personality is an increased tendency to fall for clickbait. You know the stories that draw you in with an irresistible headline, then string you along for thirty-seven more clicks, with several new ads on each…
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