The Case of the Unreliable Narrator
I tend to put books — and the authors who write them — on a pedestal, but the truth is that a good many are as susceptible to trends or gimmicks as your average teenager. Think vampire novels. Dystopian series. And various shades of gray. In recent years, this has given us the anti-hero and… Read More
Because Summer’s too Short to Read Depressing Books …
If the seasons all have their own unique calling cards—snow and toddies and roaring fires for winter, flowers and showers for spring, foliage tours and pumpkins for fall—wouldn’t it stand to reason that what we read would change with the seasons, too. And that got me thinking . . . If summer is all about… Read More
2015 ALA MidWinter Library Conference Blows Hot and Cold
Against a background of the fifth worst snow fall in the city’s history (almost 20 inches at O’Hare Airport alone), thousands from the library world donned galoshes and coats to mush their way to the 2015 ALA MidWinter Conference in Chicago. But if the temperature at times dipped into the single digits (thanks to those oh-so-reliable Chicago winds) as… Read More