In honor of our month-long celebration of All Hallows Read here at the Library, this week’s Five Book Friday will be showcasing some of our favorite creepy, ghoulish, and eerie books that we have on display for you this month (scary books have the best adjectives). Some of these books are tried-and-true, staff-approved scary-stuff, and … Continue reading A Frightening Five Book Friday
As we mentioned on Monday, the books here at the Library are quietly assembling for All-Hallows Read, a celebration of all things literary, eerie, chilling, and delightful. Our staff is getting involved, too, selecting some of their favorite spooky reads for your All Hallows Read list. From the classics to new releases and back again, … Continue reading An All-Hallows Read If/Then Post
It was a dark and stormy weekend. I was sitting at the circulation desk listening to the books whisper secret tales of goblins, ghosts, and other things that slinky around in the shadows… Oh…did you not know that books can whisper? If you’re friendly to them, and sit very quietly, sometimes you can catch … Continue reading Something wicked this way comes…..
Today is the last day of Banned Books Week, which we’ve been celebrating here on the blog daily, in various ways and from various perspectives because it is a broad topic to consider. You would think that since the South kicked off the Banned Books Week-bonanza last week that I would have something to say … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: Comfort Reads
Tomorrow starts an annual event that all libraries should celebrate: Banned Books Week. In 1982, a group of people noticed an alarming number of books that were being banned or challenged and began a nationwide movement that is delightfully contrary: the celebration of banned and challenged books. Thus began Banned Books Week, a non-profit organization … Continue reading Don’t Read This!! A Saturdays @ the South primer on Banned Books Week.
As was noted in yesterday’s post, we here really like books. But, I think, more than that, we enjoy good stories, in whatever form, or through whatever medium they happen to be told, especially if they involve plenty of good characters, well-planned action, and/or elaborate hand gestures…As was also noted, we also tend to focus … Continue reading Books for your ears, or Hooray for Audiobooks!
It seems nearly everyone has an opinion about the state of books and whether or not the book is dead. It also seemsthat very few people agree on what that state is. As some insist that the book is going the way of the dodo, others consider the book is as vibrant, lively and worthy of … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: The Book is Dead; Long Live the Book!