A librarian talks about books, writing, and library life
America, this is why we can't have nice things. "Hide the Pride" is a new initiative where right-wing Christians will check out LGBTQ materials from the library pride displays and won't return them until the library agrees to remove any materials that support the LGBTQ community from their collection. That has another name. Oh, what [...]
John Scalzi did a thing, and that thing was awesome. This was my first experience reading John Scalzi. I saw the title, and having just finished watching Godzilla Singular Point on Netflix, was feelin' the Kaiju, so immediately decided to give it a try. I brought it home, showed my brother, and he immediately responded [...]
Libraries are constantly changing at their core in order to maintain their missions of upholding literacy, providing access to free information, and supporting community growth. Libraries aren't just books anymore. Technologies are changing, and with that, libraries constantly need to keep up in order to stay relevant. A new innovative idea that has been circling [...]
I've been seeing a lot of mimic posts trending on Tiktok and YouTube of "Amazon must-haves" and "Amazon hauls", so I thought I would do one that will be a little different. Instead of showing the same old items that everyone is highlighting, I'm going to be focusing on Amazon finds specifically for the Bibliophile [...]
“I wish him a lifetime of safety and platitudes, a soundtrack of fluorescent lights humming. I do not wish him me, though. Never me again.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/qpJn7y8kT-w?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent Dry Cake Wishes and Tap Water Dreams Rachel Wiley speaks to everyone who has ever been made to feel like they weren’t good enough in a past relationship. And [...]
November is close approaching, and with it, NaNoWriMo returns for another year of torturously fast productivity as authors all across the globe participate in a one month long challenge to write a novel. A full novel in a month! That’s a lot. Not even Stephen King could do that. (Could he?) But let’s assume that [...]
Where do I even begin to describe this dumpster fire of a book? Red Seas under Red Skies is accurate in that it is flaming garbage set on a pirate ship. Ok, that may have come off as harsh. Let me explain. The Lies of Locke Lamora The second book in the Gentleman Bastard's series [...]
Our entire academic life we are taught to hit a word count, to fill the void on the paper with meaningless jibber jabber until we hit that magic number that is the word count. And then you get to graduate school and they tell you they want you to "be concise", and get to the [...]
Are ghosts real? Are there truly beings that haunt us, moving objects and making the old floor boards creak? Can houses be haunted? Or people? The Haunting of Alma Fielding is presented as a "true ghost story", written in the style of narrative journalism. Dr. Fodor, one of the central personalities in this narrative account, [...]
Once in a great many years, you stumble upon a book that lights you up and brings you nothing but pure joy. For me, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue was one of these books. Mackenzi Lee manages to create a story packed full of so much! There's adventure, romance, sibling shenanigans, wanderlust, and [...]
The Literary Kat 