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What Deane reads
My husband, Deane, is a voracious reader. He’s always reading. He reads fast and furious. If he’s without…
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Heartwood 3:4 – The Big Money
Sometimes a writer only gets one chance to hit it off with a reader. For many long years…
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Way down south
There is no denying that we are heading into the height of the summer season. It is true…
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Spot-Lit for July 2013
Lots of good fiction is headed your way this July. Click the titles below and then the Full…
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Fun and games with Satan
Something unseen and unnamed has been trailing me for years. Sometimes pure happiness rides along on its back.…
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Reading every day, in every way: a bibliovore’s dilemma
I have a problem. No, it’s not one you can help me with. If I went to a…
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Staff picks and pans
As one considers which book to read this week, one must wrestle with the multi-headed serpent of leisure…
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Movie’s better: The Wizard of Oz
Here’s a tough call. A perennially beloved book (the mega-smash Harry Potter of its day) is also considered…
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Recipes for life: a sense of wonderment
Today we publish the first in a new series on A Reading Life titled Recipes for Life and…
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Summer Reading Program 2013: dig into reading
The first Summer Reading Program I remember participating in was when I went with my two sisters to…
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Take the Adult Summer Reading Challenge
“Groundbreaking Reads” is the theme for Everett Public Library’s 2013 Adult Summer Reading Challenge. Groundbreaking books of the…
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Lights, camera, read
You see them everywhere: smiling for the camera, promoting their latest film, putting their hands in cement. Yes,…
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Grilled salmon and DEET
When my husband and I moved here from Chicago, I thought that I was finally coming into my…
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The wolf inside
There are books that get inside of you like a bloated white worm. You can feel it in…
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Spot-Lit for June 2013
This month marks the one-year anniversary of Spot-Lit, so we thought we’d take a look back.
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Release your inner toddler
Now that my daughter is of an age where she reads books about gruesome murders, ghosts and hungry…
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Spring gardening (well weeding actually…)
With our good weather lately, lots of us are outside and many are gardening. At my house you…
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Your library: your source for what’s fresh, local and in season!
I was able to listen to an interview with Debra Prinzing on NPR on my way to work…
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Questionable things
Due to my exposure to the Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius at a formative age, I’ve…