“Whenever [he] looked at a book, he did not see it purely in terms of a story, minimum retail price and an essential balm for the soul; he saw freedom on wings of paper.” (p. 143) Hello Readers, The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George (one of our June picks) was a lesson in “Don’t…
“You are not required to agree with everything you read. That is submission. But laughing at it and trying to understand something you do not concur with is called being sophisticated.” – p. 7 Greg Proops’ The Smartest Book in the World: A Lexicon of Literacy, A Rancorous Reportage, A Concise Curriculum of Cool (one of…
Hi Friends, When I picked up a copy of Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat? by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella (one of our July picks) I was not prepared for how wonderful it was. Seriously. This mother-daughter team has put together a collection of short-essays that are both entertaining and insightful. Lisa had…
I spent last weekend camping and reading Modern Romance (one of our June picks) by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg. Fellow readers, I enjoyed every page. In the book, Ansari explored today’s dating scene. It is so different than it was ten or fifteen years ago. The options are unlimited (which he argued is both…
“Once you’ve held a book and really loved it, you forever remember the feel of it, its specific weight, the way it sits in your hand.” – p. 259 Hello Readers, In Erika Swyler’s debut novel, The Book of Speculation (one of our June Picks), the reader meets a family with a dark past and…
“If a character sits in a book and no one reads it, is he truly alive? As your eyes move across the pages, as you heard the story in your head, the characters moved for you, spoke for you, felt for you. So you see, it’s quite difficult to know who owns a story. Is…
“You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.” – p. 387 Hello Readers! What is it like to be invisible? What is it like to live in the shadow of someone else? What is it like to be held to higher standard because of the shortcomings of…
“The truth is, we need our friends. I mean, we need Jesus to truly complete us, but we absolutely need our girlfriends, because no man wants to listen to all the words we have to say in the course of a day.” – p. 36 Hello Readers, I have been blessed with a handful of…
Hi Readers! “Little free libraries are an oasis of serendipity in what is a fairly programmed age.” – p. 89 All libraries are beautiful in their own way. Many of the libraries we interact with today are town or county libraries and they don’t offer much in the way of inspiring architecture and breathtaking stacks…
Hello Beautiful People, After waiting almost a month on the library, I finally obtained and read a copy of Sara Gruen’s At the Water’s Edge (one of our March picks). Many of you are probably familiar with her Water For Elephants that was adapted for the screen in 2011 starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon….