Welcome to Booked on a Feeling — because the best stories start at your library.
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 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…
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…
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,…
Our library is embarking on an exciting project to breathe new life into those plain jane classics you might remember from school. You know, the ones with the covers that are just blah. Our goal is to replace those tired old copies with editions that are as captivating on the…
There are many reasons I wanted to write this post. Mainly, it’s because I love reading different genres, and especially enjoy bouncing back and forth between fiction and nonfiction books. When I discovered they can have identical themes, while still being unique reads, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Any…
I was personally very lucky when I was young, because the importance of reading was expressed to me at an early age. My mother would spend hours reading out loud to my sister and I at bedtime. It was the highlight of the day ending by settling in for the…
The Carpool Detectives: A true Story of Four Moms, Two Bodies and One Mysterious Cold Case by Chuck Hogan I cannot tell you exactly what roped me in so quickly with this book, but I suspect it was Hogan’s writing style. This was his first venture into writing non-fiction. This…