Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport that Wasn’t Built for Us
Running While Black explores many of the issues and problems Black runners face while running. The sport markets itself as being “for everyone,” yet, for many Black people, it’s filled with anxiety and fear. Désir opens the book by describing…
Skip the Holds List with hoopla Digitial
Are you still waiting for Colleen Hoover titles? How about Taylor Jenkins Reid or Tessa Bailey? Hoopla may be for you! We have eBooks, eAudiobooks and no waitlist. Reasons I use hoopla: I can check out materials as soon as…
Book Review: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Summary: On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a…
Book Review: Lessons in Chemistry
Summary: Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s, and her all-male team at Hastings…
Nonfiction Audiobooks for Road Trips
It’s road trip season, and I’ve got some nonfiction audiobooks to recommend. Each of these will help you get lost in the great storytelling as the miles pass you by.
Midsummer Adult New Fiction
It’s midsummer, and I’ve been reading some great new books. Each of these novels has a strong sense of place, and although they deal with serious life topics, they are also humorous and touching. I enjoyed reading them and hope…
If You Like “Only Murders in the Building,” Try…
Season two of Only Murders in the Building is set to be released June 28 on Hulu. If you’re waiting to see what kind of trouble Charles, Oliver and Mabel get into, I’ve put together a list of great mysteries…
Oceans of Possibilities Adult Nonfiction Reads
Summer Adventure is almost here! This year’s theme is “Oceans of Possibilities,” and here are some adult nonfiction titles to learn about our wonderful underwater worlds. If you are looking for other titles, please let us know. Be sure to…
How to Get Over a Reading Slump
The pandemic made it difficult for me to focus on reading back in 2020 and for much of 2021. The seemingly endless bad news cycles, my low attention span and general lack of interest in reading (gasp!) made it hard…
Book Review: “Hell of a Book” by Jason Mott
SUMMARY In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more…