We’re closing out Novennber with one last batch of bookish Venns. Click each image to see it at its full size. Props to Sara for the Twilight Venn. Continue reading
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Novennber rolls on! Check out this week’s batch of bookish Venns. Click each image to see it at its full size. Props to Sara for the Of Mice and Men Venn. Continue reading
Novennber Reigns
Four years ago, we declared the month of November to be “Novennber,” a time for us to, among other things, goofily celebrate books using a not-nearly-celebrated-enough medium: The Venn diagram. Surprisingly, this highly important observance has not gained any traction nationally or globally, but here at BPL, the fourth annual Novennber is in full swing. … Continue reading
Fun Size Halloween Book Reviews 2020
We’re rising from the blogging grave to bring you the eighth annual Shelf Life Fun Size Halloween Book Reviews: Malorie Malorie is a disturbingly timely and relatable novel. No, in real life, there’s not an invisible threat terrorizing the land that necessitates heretofore unimaginable protective measures every time you leave your house. Well, wait, that’s … Continue reading
Enjoy Some Summer Sweetness With Summer Reading Scramble
It’s lemonade season. I don’t mean the sweet, sweet beverage, though it is time for that. I don’t mean the acclaimed Beyonce album, though it’s always time for that. In this particular context, our version of lemonade-ing is taking the bitter loss of our usual funtime activites and concocting a new form of summery sweetness. … Continue reading
Beyond Books: Introducing the Library of Things
When the majority of people hear “library,” they think about books. Maybe a specific library springs to mind, like the ghost-occupied one in Ghostbusters that freaked me out as a child (it’s sort of amazing I ended up voluntarily working in this field), or the one in Pawnee that Leslie Knope will tell you is … Continue reading
Don’t Believe Your Eyes With Blind Date With a Book
Your eyes can get you in trouble. They tell you that the sweeeet-looking-yet-health-hampering cheesecake is worth eating. That the garbage movie with the cool trailer is worth seeing. That the really, really, ridiculously good looking hunk with whom you have nothing in common is worth dating. And, in the case of books, your eyes can … Continue reading
Forget the Lobby, Let’s All Go to the Library
A recent Gallup poll revealed something that was surely shocking to many and less shocking, but admittedly still a little shocking, to a library type like me: In 2019, the average American visited the library 10.5 times, which was nearly twice as many times as they went to a movie theater (5.3). Take that, movie … Continue reading
Get You a Librarian Who Can Do it All
This past week, the silly citizens of the Internet have been amusing themselves sharing and creating content for the Dolly Parton Challenge, which involves aggregating photos of the challengee that represent the LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Tinder-appropriate versions of themselves. The library is nothing if not hip and with it, so I accepted the challenge … Continue reading
Best Books (I Read During the Year) of 2019
Fellow readers, I present to you my “Best Books of 2019” list, as always with the huge caveat that very few of the books were actually published in 2019; they’re simply my favorite books I read during the year. There are no rankings here; like the songs on a sweet burned CD from high school, this … Continue reading
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