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Every Day
There are too many days that I wake up and wish I wasn’t me. There are too many…
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It all starts with World War Z
I’m not really into zombies. I generally confine my summer reads to mildly-embarrassing vampire fiction or binge-reading Game…
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Help decide what Everett will read in February
Remember last February when Sherman Alexie came to town and we all read The Absolutely True Diary of…
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‘On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods’
It isn’t hard to picture flooding on our side of the Cascades. Just wait until November if you…
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Ryan Gosling’s imagined thoughts
If you need to brush up on your feminist education and could also use a chuckle, a quick…
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Librarians gone wild!
Librarians have long been burdened with a variety of uncomplimentary stereotypes, stern old maid and milquetoast bookworm being…
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Writing for dollars
Geez, it’s not easy to write a good blog post heading. It must be even more difficult to…
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Passionately detached fiction
Why we like the stories that we do is a mysterious thing. Here at the library, we try…
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Spot-Lit (September, 2012)
Uber-popular authors such as Lee Child, Ken Follett, James Patterson, J.D. Robb, and Stuart Woods hardly need us…
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Being Freddie Mercury for a day
I wasn’t fortunate enough to grow up in a time when Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen, was…
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Adult summer reading reviews: the final chapter
The kindle has been given away, the prizes are almost at an end, and there is no denying…
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Slow cooking with your Kindle
I’ve been exploring Everett Public’s Kindle holdings on Overdrive, which one can link to from our homepage. E-Readers…
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2012 RITA Awards
The last month or so has been pretty chaotic. Between my best friend finally receiving a new kidney…
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Gone Girl
I can understand how a couple who are complete poison to each other, with one spouse keeping a…
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Twick or Tweet
Back in the seventies there was a lot of talk about the generation gap, the set of things…
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Heartwood 2:9 – The Cyclist Conspiracy
Svetislav Basara’s The Cyclist Conspiracy is a strange and imaginative collage-like “anthology” that draws on all kind of…
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Summer Teen Book Reviews
We are continuing to sign up children and teens for Dream Big Read, the library summer reading program.…
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Melvil Dewey’s odditorium
The Dewey Decimal System can be a cruel mistress. She promises to organize knowledge into nice neat sets…
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Spot-Lit (August, 2012)
Among the other standouts in the August issue of Spot-Lit are not-to-be-missed new books by Ivan Doig, Louise…