Category: Reading
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This series is being born out of a dangerous whim, which I can only attribute to the temporary giddiness of a new library card. Upon seeing the (truthfully rather average sized) poetry collection at the main branch, I was seized by an impulse to read from one end of the poetry section to the other.…
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I have made no secret of loving the Harry Potter series, either on this blog or in my everyday life and proudly identify myself as a Ravenclaw. And yet, the author of this most-beloved series has recently come out as anti-trans, testing the love that I have for the author of one of my most…
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My Top 10 Reads of 2020
Akwaeke Emezi, Alix E. Harrow, Angela Carter, books, Brit Bennett, Casey McQuiston, favorite books 2020, Geraldine Brooks, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Novik, People of the Book, Reading, Red White and Roya Blue, Spinning Silver, Stone Mattress, The Death of Vivek Oji, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Magic Toyshop, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Vanishing Half, V.E. SchwabThis year I read 150 books, and though it was a bit of a mixed bag with plenty of books I didn’t finish and lots of reading for classes, there were still a number of great books. In fact there were well over 30 books this year that I unreservedly loved, and narrowing it down…
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In my reference class this semester we’ve been talking about how to find books for patrons in need of a new great read. The holidays are fast approaching and maybe you’re planning on getting a book for yourself or for someone else this holiday season. Need a good recommendation? You can drop a comment on…
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This has been a strange year for reading. There are times when I’ve devoured books, and other times where I don’t read anything (except required reading) for weeks. I wanted to reread a series, more for comfort than anything else, and I decided to pick something other than the Harry Potter books, which I reread…
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A Friend’s Reading Challenge: 10 Books in a Week
A Good Neighborhood, A Room with a View, Abbi Waxman, Akwaeke Emezi, classics, E.M. Forster, fantasy, James McBride, John Connolly, memoir, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Naomi Novik, Ottessa Moshfegh, Paula Byrne, Reading, reading challenge, The Book of Lost Things, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, The Death of Vivek Oji, The Good Lord Bird, The Real Jane Austen, Therese Anne FowlerOne of my best friends is an avid reader and often reads voraciously in a very short period. She took a few days off of work with the goal to read 10 books. This sounded like fun, so I thought I’d join her in trying to read 10 books before my classes started a few…
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I think almost every object we interact with is worthy of deeper consideration. Whether it’s a piece of advertising, a chair in our homes, a film, a game, a book–every object has the potential to reveal something. For me what makes this a worthwhile is not the object in and of itself, but the context…
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Hamlette is hosting a Jane Austen week, where lots of bloggers are posting on one of our favorite authors. There are discussions of her books and the various adaptations they’ve spawned in film and further. You can find all of the other posts here! I chose to write about Northanger Abbey, one of the more overlooked…
Allison Burris 