• My Reading Journey – Elizabeth G.

    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…

  • A Knife Between Chapters: Brings You 25 of 2025

    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…

  • Book Review: The Will of the Many by James Islington

    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…

  • Reading Journey: Then & Now – Sarah M.

    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,…

  • Same Vibe, New Pages

    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…

  • My Reading Journey – Cassondra

    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…

  • A February Display Full of Surprises

    Blind Date With a Book What if your next favorite book was waiting for you… wrapped in paper and keeping its secrets? This February, we’re inviting readers to take a chance with our Blind Date with a Book display. Located by the front desk for and in the Teen Room…