Fun Size Halloween Book Reviews 2015

As October approached this year, I told myself I would get myself pumped up for Halloween by watching scary movies and shows, playing scary video games, and reading scary books. Here we are at the end of the month, and I’ve done exactly one of those things. Fortunately, it’s the thing most relevant to this … Continue reading →

Rain, Rain, Go Away…Or Don’t, Whatever

“Blame it on the rain,” Milli Vanilli said (well, they didn’t actually say it, but they did lip sync it convincingly). Rain takes the rap for a lot of things, the most common of which is probably poor attendance. When it rains, there’s an expectation that many of us behave like we’re the Wicked Witch … Continue reading →

Pumpkin Carving for the Modern Halloweenophile

Fall: It’s a time for colorful foliage, hoodies (if you live anywhere other than Texas), baseball playoff choke jobs (if you live in Texas), and all things pumpkin. While many go gaga for pumpkin spice lattes, I say forget the spice; just give me the pumpkin. Not to eat, though. That’s kinda gross. I prefer … Continue reading →

Skills Cubed

Like Liam Neeson in Taken, I have a very particular set of skills, or rather, sets of skills. These skills allow me to enjoy modest success in the fields of librarianship, fantasy football, and virtually steering go-karts driven by characters from the Mario universe. There are many, many skills I don’t possess but wish I … Continue reading →

They Banned THAT?!?

  “These books are banned?”   It’s the incredulous question we get repeatedly each year when we put up our display for Banned Books Week, which winds down for 2015 tomorrow. We answer that well, the books aren’t technically banned, at least not in any widespread fashion (it’s admittedly an incendiary tactic to get people … Continue reading →