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I’m going to start off and let the audience know that I in fact know nothing when it comes to gardening and landscaping. For this blog to properly highlight what we have in our collection, I had my work cut out for me. Once I started digging into this collection…
The Night We Met is messy in the best possible way-the kind of messy that feels real, complicated and completely human. Abby Jimenez has a way of writing relationships that pull you in fast and don’t let go and this one had me hooked from the start. Chris had my…
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky This instant classic by the world renowned author of existential thought, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, is for anyone who enjoys philosophy, a dive into (at least, an attempt at) understanding the complex nature of the human psyche, and an all-time classic mystery novel. Set in a…
The air warms outside, and the frozen earth (did it really freeze this year? Not sure.) is thawing and sending the scents of springtime into the atmosphere. Green creeps through what’s been brown for months, and—what’s that? The wind is slowing down? Unreal. It’s time for Campbell Countians to get…
I grew up poor in a small, dusty town in New Mexico. My mother had always struggled with reading comprehension, and she made it a priority to develop a love of reading within me at a young age. She accidentally turned me into a voracious reader by letting me loose in a library a few too many times. With no cable television at home, I would browse an old set of encyclopedias and read about…
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Robert Frost (1874-1963): American, realistic depictions of rural life, examining social and philosophical themes, conversational and realism poetry, traditional poetic style, villanelle (three line stanzas followed by a four line stanza) and sonnets, modernist style, humor and wisdom Popular Poems: The Road Not Taken, Stopping By Woods On a Snowy…
A Knife Between Chapters is one of our staff readers, moving quietly through pages where motives matter, alibis unravel, and someone almost always ends up dead. Her reading life leans delightfully murdery, with psychological thrillers, mysteries, and crime at the core, softened now and then by a literary turn of…
The Will of the Many was absolutely fantastic and had me hooked from the very first sentence. This is the kind of book you don’t rush through-not because it drags, but because you want to savor it while trying to piece everything together. I found myself constantly wondering how Vis…
I remember the first book I ever read. It was called Spooky Sounds by Noodles. The moment that the words began to take form, and I could read them, it was off to the races! I always loved reading. I was that kid that relished silent reading time in class,…