What did the librarian say on September 6?
Happy National Read A Book Day! What is your favorite book? It's a joke among bibliophiles that we can never pick just one. We tend to go...
Annual Fiction Fast 2017
Every year I participate in a Fiction Fast. I read a lot of books. For 11 months of the year, these are mostly murder mysteries,...
Happy Book Lovers Day
Today is Book Lovers Day, a day that we celebrate introverts and literary connoisseurs. I have loved books all my life. Words on pages...
A Man and His Bear
On January 18, 1882, a boy was born who would impact the lives of children for generations. His parents named him Alan. You and I know...
Real Life Mysteries
**Disclaimer: what follows is a book review. Or, rather, two of them. The review is for general audiences. However, I am NOT saying the...
Book Review: Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
I picked up this tattered paperback (libraries really shouldn't invest in paperbacks, in my opinion) because the title caught my...
Not Your Local
Libraries have been around for centuries. Modern libraries have books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, and computers. All of it designed to provide...
Reading is Fun!
I loved reading as a child. I learned the art of walking and reading two decades ago far better than today’s cell phone reading public. I...
A Story Worth Writing
In an article titled “All Stories Are the Same” in The Atlantic Monthly, John Yorke claims that if you want to write a good story, you...
Christian vs. Science
For decades, perhaps centuries, Christians have gotten a reputation as being anti-science. Darwin purported a theory that contradicts the...
