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All the world’s a Stooge
The Three Stooges have entertained us for over 75 years. Their career on stage, film and television spanned…
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Mr. Peabody’s corner of research and revelation: art
In An Object of Beauty, author Steve Martin introduces readers to the rarified world of art dealers and…
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Girlhood among the gators: Swamplandia
Alligators! When you live in Florida, you either love them or hate them.
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Up from the depths
Spring is slowly, very slowly this year it seems, lurching into view. It is time again to tend…
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Books you have always meant to read: David Copperfield
We all have at least one title. Perhaps it is a book that has been sitting at the…
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‘Wonder’ is the story of a boy with a memorable face
People are jerks. Let me amend that. Some people are jerks. They stare, point, and are loud with…
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Contents May Have Shifted
The quirky and unusual travel novel Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston takes you on a roller-coaster…
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Did you know? (platypus edition)
Did you know that male platypuses are poisonous? The male platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus in Latin) has a spike…
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‘Chopsticks’ wins over a skeptic to young adult fiction
Do you recall me stating that I absolutely do not read Young Adult (YA) novels? I am constantly…
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City of Refuge
City of Refuge is a passionate love letter to New Orleans. This story about how Hurricane Katrina affected…
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First line’s the charm
With a full understanding of how geeky this sounds, I must make a confession: Each and every day…
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Heartwood 2:3 – Spurious
“Somehow or another…you have to find your own path through contemporary culture. You have to dig your own…
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Fictional Marilyn makes you want answers about the real one
A good book always makes me want to learn more about its contents, yet I seldom make the…
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Blueprints of the Afterlife
Early reviews sing the praises of Ryan Boudinot’s new novel, Blueprints of the Afterlife. Novelist Charles Yu calls…
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Not suitable for adults
Judging by the age of people coming to our Everett Reads programs, it is clear that the appeal…
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Working in the Shadows
We often don’t think about how the food we eat comes to be on our supermarket shelves. Turns…
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Not taboo: tattoos
Love them, hate them, or never really thought about them? No, I’m not talking about American Idol contestants.…
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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
When my sister saw that I was reading Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self she worried about…
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Absolutely True: banned in Richland
Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, that is. The Richland School Board decided last year…
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A mixed bag of picture books
With the bleak weather of January behind us, I thought I’d share some new books for children. The…