“Somewhere, deep within, unspoken, we must know, we do know, that we’re all have our time adrift. For what else is a marriage, really, if not stuck on a small raft with someone and trying to survive. Pg. 202 A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst I have a confession to make. I force…
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…
If you had to take an in-depth test about the Constitution, could you pass it? If you are like me (and not an attorney or another who works in a law-related field) you can only recall the Cliffs Notes version. Yet, each time a Supreme Court case in the news alludes to the Constitution or a…
https://youtu.be/m6aQ7pyS5bM?si=NbHKd81xvXgGyAUh April is National Poetry Month! The newest episode of Nonfiction Book Report is available on the Library’s YouTube Channel. This April, Natalie and I chat Newish Noteworthy Nonfiction (but make it poetry) with our special guest, Kristina. To celebrate National Poetry Month, we each report on a book of poetry. Kristina gets meta with her own poetry-notes-poem while…
Some of the most fun I’ve had reading nonfiction were books that were published on the right topic at the right moment. For example, The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman served up a healthy dose of nostalgia and debuted at number two on the New York Times Best Seller list in 2022. Below are seven new…
Glossier debut on Instagram in 2014. Today, the company is worth over $1B. Since then, the brand has promoted its "effortless, no makeup, makeup" to compete with well-established brands like L'oreal and Maybelline. In Glossy, author Marisa Meltzer draws back the curtain to reveal an excessively privileged and well-connected woman who used her advantages to…
Renowned legal scholar Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960 in By hands now known : Jim Crow's legal executioners…
“My best friend, Larissa, died three years ago.” Eirinie Carson writes, “ … But this is not a eulogy.” The Dead Are Gods is a tale of grief after the death of a close friend. Larissa and Eirinie met as teenagers at a hard rock concert. Over the following decades, their lives twist, move, and…
The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things.” Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals I don't know about you, but since the days of errant COVID-19 my conception of time and the passing of time has been wholly transformed.…
“Let me just exist with you, happier than ever.” For much of his life, Canadian actor Elliot Page experienced gender dysphoria that made him extremely uncomfortable in his own body. The intense pressure Page felt to dress and act in a certain way almost drove him to quit show business during the aftermath of his…
