Dec 22, 2017 | Librarian's blog
he year is almost at an end, and it’s time to do some tallying up. Specifically, it’s time to see what were the most popular books of 2017. Various people do a count of this type, and few seem to agree. So, let’s just dive in and look at what Amazon...
Dec 20, 2017 | Librarian's blog
he year is almost at an end, and it’s time to do some tallying up. Specifically, it’s time to see what were the most popular books of 2017. Various people do a count of this type, and few seem to agree. So, let’s just dive in and look at what Amazon...
Dec 18, 2017 | Librarian's blog
In the broad category of fiction, where do graphic novels fit? For that matter, were do collections of comic strips or panels, like those of Breathed and Trudeau, fit? Or do they have a place at that table at all? Apparently they do. Two new books that contain strips...
Dec 15, 2017 | Librarian's blog
When I was in high school in the ’60s, I just assumed that everyone in America was going to stick it out like I was and get a diploma. As Paul Simon contended in one of his tunes, I did learn a lot of c–p in high school, but that was just what I was...
Dec 11, 2017 | Librarian's blog
If you’ve been on a college campus recently or at a shopping mall or heavily trafficked downtown — or maybe just in a restaurant — you could not have missed the fact that young people are absolutely addicted to their cell phones. I use the term...
Dec 8, 2017 | Librarian's blog
I’ve been reading about this kid in London who invented a restaurant and then fooled TripAdvisor into thinking it was real and now spills his whole tale in The Washington Post. He called the place the Shed at Dulwich. He built a whole imaginary world around The...
