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Month: December 2016

  • These Are a Few of My Favorite Things…

    I’ve heard the song “Favorite Things” a bunch of times over the last few weeks, and it got me thinking about my favorites for 2016*. The idea of “favorites” is quite broad, but seeing as my life revolves around reading, it was all literary-related favorites that came to mind. Take a look at what tickled…

  • Literary Linking: December 19 – 23

    This week’s articles include a book 57 years overdue, fabulous female heroines and more!  There won’t be any Literary Linking next week because I’ll be having fun in the sun on a Caribbean cruise 🙂 Hope everyone has a great holiday! My favorite bookish links from the week of December 19 – 23: Denzel Washington…

  • Wonderful Winter-Break Reads for Kids!

    Winter break is finally here! For me, that means lots of reading, reading, reading. And for those of you with kids, Librarian-Kristen hopes they spend a good chunk of their time off doing the same. With thousands of children’s books published each year, it’s hard to choose which ones to read next. So, I’ve pulled together…

  • Literary Linking: December 12 – 16

    This week’s articles include celebrities’ fave books of 2016, a spider that looks like the sorting hat from Harry Potter and more! My favorite bookish links from the week of December 12 – 16: A Literary Guide To the Golden Globes “The nominees for the 2017 Golden Globe Awards were announced Monday morning, and although…

  • The Best Of the Best Books of 2016

    Usually I love learning about great books to add to my TBR list. Some days, though, I can’t help but feel overwhelmed by the never-ending publication of amazing new titles each year. It makes me shake my fists at the sky and shout, “There are too many books! I’ll never read them all!” This feeling…

  • Literary Linking: December 5 – 9

    This week’s articles include hotels for book lovers, cocktails made with old books, a book concierge and more! My favorite bookish links from the week of December 5 – 9: American Teens are Getting Hooked on Fiction by Text Message “…Hooked [is] an addictive app that sends suspenseful stories to teenagers in the form of…

  • Literary Linking: November 28 – December 2

    This week’s articles include: Maya Angelou on libraries, a Harry Potter bucket list and more! My favorite bookish links from the week of November 28 – December 2: Maya Angelou on How a Library Saved Her Life “…no one has articulated, nor lived, this liberating and salvational function of libraries more fully than Maya Angelou (April…

  • What Did DC Read in November?

    Welcome to the November 2016 round-up of what DC commuters read on public transit, plus observations of the readers themselves. Maybe it’s you… 🙂 Book: The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins From the publisher: Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning … past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at…