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2025 is fast approaching, but we're not quite ready to turn the page on 2024! This year was filled with titles that made us laugh, cry, and gasp. We read stories that moved, challenged, and transported us. We're a community that loves to read -- and to share what we're reading -- which is why…

“No matter how great a work of art is, it comes to an end. In fact, in order to be great, it must end.”  Juhea Kim, City of Night Birds, pg. 305 When I was five years old, I wanted to be a ballet dancer more than anything in the world. All my child-sized brain…

Poor Richard Osman. He wrote a beloved, critically acclaimed mystery series that breathed new life into the cozy mystery subgenre, spawned countless imitations, and is currently in production as a Netflix series. Then he pressed pause.  At the end of The Last Devil To Die, Osman announced that the members of the Thursday Murder Club would…

    Would you let your children pick your next date? In Is She Really Going Out with Him? (I must confess to humming the old Joe Jackson song every time I say the title) by Sophie Cousens that is exactly what our narrator agrees to.  Anna Appleby is a busy, newly divorced mother of…

  Who doesn't love a grumpy old man sticking his nose in other folks' business?   In this case it's a grumpy old pony sticking his snout in his other people's business. Like Marcellus the octopus in Remarkably Bright Creatures, we have an animal intervening in human affairs and ultimately, saving the day. Pony after being sold by…

“I follow his gaze and then it strikes me. The paintings and sculptures are varied and diverse, but they all feature the same subject. It is unmistakable who it is.  They all feature me.”   Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace, pg. 153  What if you were doomed to love someone in every lifetime?…

A love of reading doesn't just happen. An adult who loves to read was, most likely, a child who loved to read. Even as a librarian, it's been a challenge to raise children who love to read. My children don't see me as a librarian. They see me as "Mom," and when I ask them…

The Bookies are back just in time for Thanksgiving with some stellar November reading selections all about families. This is an edited version of November's Bookies Live Facebook event. Follow the library on Facebook to catch future Bookies Live. In This Episode Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told…

Horror readers Lindsay, Mark, and Karen talk up some chilling October reads. This is an edited version of October's Bookies Live Facebook event. Follow the library on Facebook to catch future Bookies Live. In This Episode Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street Tiffany D. Jackson, White Smoke C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls Caitlin…

In December Erica set some reading resolutions for herself, which you can read about in her blog post. We thought we would check in with Erica and get some tips on those resolutions, get some good reading recommendations and get some tips on another common reading resolution - reading more books (she read 150 last…