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Tag Archives: bookshops and libraries
Recollected Books
Happy end-of-September week, bookish friend! I started another book over the weekend, so this week is going to be a bit of famine-and-feast: no book reviews at the outset and then an absolute barrage of them later on. Over the … Continue reading
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Two years ago I checked out Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and began an on-again, off-again fling with Japanese literature. The story concerned young Takako, who had been just been dumped by her boyfriend when he announced he was getting … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged bookshops and libraries, Japan, Japanese literature, Satoshi Yagisawa
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Frequently Asked Questions
Nearly twenty years ago, before I donned my first cardigan and became Liberry Man (this phrase has been shouted at me in grocery store parking lots), I loved an online comic strip called Unshelved, which was set in a library … Continue reading
Harry Potter and the Cat Who Rescues Books
Harry Potter and the Cat Who Rescues Books I only made it a week before doing a short-round! First up, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, full cast audio edition. I loved the full-cast audio edition of Harry Potter … Continue reading
Reckoning with the Public Library
Recently an article at The Free Press which attributed the decline of the public library to the fact that they’ve become homeless shelters has been causing some chatter in some online librarian communities. While looking into it, this book was … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged bookshops and libraries, crime, memoir, mental health-illness
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The changing look of “reference”.
Today while looking through library photos in hopes of finding shots that would make it possible for me to find where we buried a time capsule in 1995, I saw one that begged for a “Then and Now” type framing. … Continue reading
Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore
Clay is the newest hire at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, occupying the clerk’s desk through the midnight hours and trying not to go out of his mind with boredom. He is there not because he has a passion for books, … Continue reading
The Bookshop of Yesterdays
Miranda grew up in sunny California, but her interest in teaching history took her across the country. Now a phone call summons her back: her uncle Billy, who she’s not seen for sixteen years, has died. Returning home to see … Continue reading
How Librarians Will Save us All
As promised, I read This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Will Save us All, by Marilyn Johnson. Before getting into it, though, I found a very quick work on KU that amused me, so I’m sharing it here … Continue reading
Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade
France, 1918: the Great War is almost over, but it doesn’t feel like it for civilians close to the lines, where the threat of a German resurgence hangs as close to the battered ground as the dust from the constant … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged 1910s, bookshops and libraries, France, historical fiction, The Great War, women
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