If you are looking to celebrate a winter holiday that doesn’t involve buying gifts, cooking a large meal, or family drama, "Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day" might be just the thing for you. Celebrated on December 8th, the idea is to pretend you are a traveler from a different time, either past or…
Dreaming Books
What do books dream of? Hands and blinking eyes, stranger's faces, book drops and endless shelves? They have a lot of time, after all, sitting around closed an
Black Friday at SLPL
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is traditionally the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season. The moniker may have roots in the custom of how
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
The birth of the Gutenberg Press in 1452 was the first step toward mass-production of literature but it wasn’t until the mid-1700s that illustration became as e
The Art of Aging
"Never Trust Anyone Under Seventy-Five” is the motto of the Gladdy Gold Detective agency, a group of mystery-solving women of advanced age in Getting Old Can Hu
“It was a dark and stormy night…”
The first recognized work of Gothic literature, The Castle of Otranto, was published in 1764, with the genre exploding into popularity between 1790 and 1800. Ov
Dear Diary
September boasts Dear Diary Day, so what better time to satisfy an urge to pry by reading a novel written in diary form? Diary novels are an intriguing strain o
First Is the Worst, Second Is the Best?
Unfortunately, this schoolyard chant doesn’t seem to concur with the popular opinion on sequels. We see it year by year in Hollywood: a blockbuster gets fast-tr
New Book Club in a Bag additions in September!
We have added six new titles to our ever-growing Book Club in a Bag collection! Follow these links to read more about each new addition:
Letting Go of Summer
When considering the perfect summertime book, you may think of lighthearted beach reads and stories that won’t pull you in too deep--after all, who wants to rui
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