Who wants to be thematic all the time? Not this blogger! I have recently read three books that have absolutely nothing to do with one […]
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 […]
Centennial 100: 1926-1936
This is part two of a Read/Watch/Listen bookmark series by the Heights Matchmakers, celebrating the Heights Libraries’ Centennial decade by decade! Books: The Castle by Franz […]
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 […]
Small Town Life Still Alive in Lee Smith’s Writing
When Lee Smith’s new memoir, Dimestore: A Writer’s Life, was published I was thrilled. I first encountered Smith when I read her epistolary novel, Fair and Tender […]
Appalachian Mountain High: A Book List
Appalachians reads for those who want to get lost in the mountains. Fiction: Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison “Greenville County, South Carolina, a […]
Music and Books: The Perfect Pairing
I love creating fun book displays, and today I decided to gift wrap some book and music pairs together for our newest display at the […]
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 […]
Octopuses not Octopi, Please!
Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus: a Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of […]
