Summer vacation is almost over, and we hope it’s been fun and fulfilling. Believe it or not, youth services staff at the library tends to […]
A Disaster of a Vacation
What surprised me about Delia Ephron’s novel, Siracusa, is that I loved despising all the characters, even the little girl. Typically, if I don’t like […]
An Uplifting and Beautiful Turning Lemons Into Lemonade Memoir
Martha’s Vineyard, Island of Dreams by Susan Branch is a charming, original memoir relaying the author’s story of running away from California after her marriage collapses. Arriving […]
Better Know a Library Staffer: Sheryl
Here on the blog the other Matchmakers and I share what we are reading, watching, or listening to quite frequently, but we don’t often hear from […]
Is Something Rotten In Denmark, the Happiest Country?
The World Happiness Report ranked Denmark as the world’s 2016’s happiest country which makes Helen Russell’s The Year of Living Danishly most timely. Russell and her husband […]
Amore, Famiglia, Cibo and Vita in Naples
Katherine Wilson’s debut memoir, Only In Naples: lessons in food and famiglia from my mother-in-law, is engaging and lighthearted. Naples, sometimes called the Appalachia of […]
Fictional Vacations: A Book List
Whether or not you’re going on a vacation this summer, you can take a fictional one with these titles! Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews […]
Take a Trip Into the Wild: A Book List
Get lost in the wilderness with these titles! Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary […]
An Englishman Riffs on Blues, Booze & Race Relations in the Mississippi Delta
Some reviewers compare adventure writer Richard Grant’s Dispatches From Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta to Peter Mayle( A Year in Provence, and Frances […]
