Travel across the pond, go back about a century, and enter the world of Nancy Mitford. In two of her novels, featuring the fictional Radletts and Hamptons, Mitford portrays the lives of the British aristocracy in the years between the World Wars, and revels in the...
As part of the Heights Libraries' commitment to be actively anti-racist and stand up to the anti-Black racism so pervasive in our society, the Matchmakers offer the following reading suggestions to our community. Read, reflect, get motivated, and act for a more just...
Are you looking for some new books to enjoy, because you've read everything you own while Sheltering In Place At Home? Here are some recently-published fiction titles that are set either now or in recent years. The first one is not only a new book, it's a new author....
The Matchmakers are delighted to once again welcome our guest blogger, librarian Bill Rubin! Bill writes: Here’s a little-known fact to know and share: In Libraryland Icelandic authors are shelved under their given name, rather than their second name which is a...
Today the Matchmakers welcome guest blogger, Kathy Farago, who co-leads the Third Tuesday Book Club! Kathy writes: If you missed reading the Third Tuesday Book Club's March 2020 selection, Alice Hoffman's novel Faithful, (audiobook here) you may find time now to read...
The Matchmakers welcome today's guest blogger, librarian Amy Marshalek! Amy writes: If you haven’t heard of Caitlin Moran before, now is the time to get up to speed. Tomorrow (5/8/20), the film How to Build a Girl, based on Moran’s 2014 book, will be released to video...
If you're a bookish kind of person, and I am, it's maybe been comforting to you, as it has to me, to see new books in a beloved series being published right on schedule, even while almost everything else has closed up and slowed down. I'm extraordinarily lucky to have...
The Matchmakers team welcomes guest blogger, librarian Bill Rubin! Bill writes: As a bit of back story, I was asked to lead a book discussion in May. That obviously isn’t going to happen now so I decided to share with you some of my thoughts. I chose Anne Tyler...
When you were growing up, maybe about, oh, in fifth or sixth grade, did you ever read Ellen Raskin's book The Westing Game? It's a smart, award-winning book with unforgettable characters and a really twisty plot. It's got a lot of appeal for adult readers as well!...
For today's post , the Matchmakers team welcomes our guest blogger, Librarian Bill Rubin! Bill writes: So you’ve been home for two weeks and you have binge read everything. I don’t just mean everything you always wanted to read and didn’t have time for. I mean...