Books & Reading
Books & Reading
Ravenous Readers Blog
Librarians blog about the books we love right now.
GLBT Favorites
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:00:00 +0000
Our GLBT Services Committee is hosting a great author event in April, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to talk it up and recommend some other favorite books, too! Sister Spit is a dynamic audio/visual performance headlined by Dorothy Allison and Michelle Tea, plus other special guests. They will be performing with two free shows at Fluxx Gallery, 414 E. 9th St., on Saturday, April 7th, at 4 and 9pm. (Dorothy Allison will be at the first show only.) Read on for more GLBT books...
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One of my favorites makes a top 100 list
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:11:00 +0000
Over the summer, NPR listeners voted on more than 5,000 science fiction and fantasy titles. The nerds... ahem... I mean the experts over at NPR then narrowed the list down to the top 100 picks. The result is an eclectic mixture of classic and modern titles. Some of the titles I expected to see. If it had been missing obvious cult favorites like Lord of the Rings, Dune, or Star Wars, I would have had to dismiss it as an inferior list. Many of my old favorites were there, but imagine my delight when one of my new favorites made the cut. Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher is relatively new and Butcher's other series The Dresden Files seemed to be the more well known.
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Smash Cut
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:28:00 +0000
Here is my suggestion for the day after Valentine's Day. On your way home from work, stop at the library and check out a romantic suspense book and then stop at the store and buy discounted leftover valentine chocolate. I just finished Smash Cutby Sandra Brown, a perfect romantic suspense to read with chocolate. In this book, Paul Wheeler, wealthy CEO of Wheeler Enterprises, and Julie Rutledge, a beautiful young art dealer, have been meeting every Tuesday at a posh hotel for the the past two years. One Tuesday when Paul and Julie are leaving the hotel, a masked
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