Posts Tagged “books”
Staff Picks!
We recently displayed staff picks at my library. My coworker Catherine and I asked the staff to provide us with eight titles (owned by our branch and currently on the shelves) that they wanted to include on the big cube (…)
The Last Book I Loved
Well now. It’s been a few months since I’ve posted here. I haven’t even written the final follow up for my challenge that ended back in May. In short, I am an abysmal blogger. But, even so, I’m choosing to (…)
Round Fifteen–A Tail of Eva & Mommy
Here lies a post about the last book I read for my Year of Reading at Your Mercy. (Better late than never. At least, that’s a phrase I’m hoping you will buy.) This book was last but not least, because (…)
Round Fourteen—Library’s Daughter
Some of my coworkers at the library heard more about my Year of Reading at Your Mercy than they wanted to—more than anyone else except perhaps David, who has no choice but to hear me since he signed a paper (…)
Round Thirteen—Fate’s a Jungle
You could say this whole challenge has been an exercise in playing what is dealt, but this time, I actually tempted fate. For round thirteen, I asked fate to tell me what to read, and it obliged. A few weeks (…)
Round Twelve…In which I’m all wound up.
Let me preface this post by squealing and jumping up and down. For pick twelve in my Year of Reading at Your Mercy I got to shoot the electronic breeze with people whose words I have read and whose voices (…)
Church=The Power of Habit
The eleventh read in my Year of Reading at Your Mercy was The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. I polled people from my church this time, and this book was my friend Amy’s pick. (It’s a pretty big title (…)
Enchantment
As I posted centuries ago, Facebook told me to read Enchantment by Orson Scott Card for the tenth book in my Year of Reading at Your Mercy. Actually, it was my friend Barbara speaking to me through Facebook—but I suppose (…)
This is the Champagne Bottle Popping
So this is just a quick post, an overdue squee really, serving to state, belatedly, that my Year of Reading at Your Mercy was a success. Can we have an exclamation point, please! As of one week ago yesterday, on my (…)
Genius of Place
I am long overdue in wrapping up my thoughts on Justin Martin’s Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted, which I finished a few months ago. It was the ninth read in my Year of Reading at Your (…)
