Happy Friday! This week has been very full here, and I can only imagine it has been even more so for everyone who started back to school. For today's First Line Friday, I'm featuring a book I recently finished and highly recommend: The Means that Make Us Strangers by Christine Kindberg. "A tangle of arms reaching toward... Continue Reading →
It's a WWW Wednesday! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme currently hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. The three W’s stand for the following questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? To participate, make a post or comment answering the three questions, link up to the host... Continue Reading →
Yarn Along is a monthly link up hosted at Small Things. The point is to share our yarn-type projects (such as knitting, crochet, or similar) as well as the books we are reading. I love watching others’ projects develop, and of course I love hearing about the books people are reading, too! You can see everyone’s... Continue Reading →
Hi there Readers! Summer Reading officially wrapped up at my library on July 31st, but I don't expect the craziness to slow down for a while still. It has been a blast seeing so many people be "Wild About Reading!" Even if some of them did only participate because of the fine waivers (lol). The... Continue Reading →
Hi y'all! It's the last day of July, and summer shows no signs of leaving anytime soon here in Oklahoma. But that is "normal," so I won't complain. At least, I won't complain as long as the air conditioning keeps working! Today I am sharing July's #SpellTheMonthInBooks post. It's a completely digital version this month,... Continue Reading →
Today's review is a little different from most. Since this book is something of a modern classic, there is already an ongoing conversation about it in critical circles. Properly engaging with this dialogue is beyond the scope of this blog post. To a large degree, rather than a review, this is a comparison of the... Continue Reading →
There are undoubtedly a lot of benefits to working in the library, and one of the biggest is easy access to whatever I want to read. I get to see when materials are returned before they even make it back to the shelf, I can easily track my place on reserves lists, and I am... Continue Reading →
One of the first book bloggers I followed when I started blogging at Reviews From the Stacks is Elaine Howlin. About a month ago she posted about something called Jane Austen July (read the post here); at this time I was in the midst of enjoying the Louisa May Alcott Reading Challenge, and decided to... Continue Reading →
Yes, I know we are already over a week into July and I am just now getting this post up. Somehow, June flew by with much less reading achievement than I expected, but more than I realized I was attaining along the way! There was so much going on at the library, plus I participated... Continue Reading →
