Book Reviews
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Just Peachy: Comics about Depression, Anxiety, Love, and finding the humor in Being Sad by Holly Chisholm
I have not officially been diagnosed with depression or anxiety,…
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Stay: A Girl, a Dog, a Bucket List (Kate Klise and M. Sarah Klise), by Lisa E. Brown
Dogs. I love ‘em.
So when I saw “Stay” featured on the…
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Thyme of Death by Susan Wittig Albert; Blood Oath by Linda Fairstein; Justice in Plain Sight by Dan Bernstein
Although not by conscious choice, most of my reading lately has…
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The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Goblins by Clint McElroy
Joplin Public Library started its 2018 Summer Reading Program…
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Art Matters by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman has been a long-time advocate for librarians and…
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Rice, Fish, Noodle: Deep Travels through Japan’s Food Culture by Matt Goulding
My passion for food and travel began with Anthony Bourdain. …
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Come With Me by Helen Schulman
I’m a sucker for alternate universe stories. Exploring “what…
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April Fool’s Day Shenanigans
Letters…
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How To Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded time Traveler
Imagine time travel being a marketable business and time machines…
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Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
This February, I challenged myself to read all of the Coretta…
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The Burglar by Thomas Perry
Thomas Perry’s latest novel, The Burglar, has many of the elements…
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I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist
I’m a horror fan. Well, a lightweight horror fan. I much prefer…
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What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper
Book review by Beth Snow
Coming of age stories are…
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Farewell and Two Historical Fiction Books to Keep you Thinking
February 3, 2019
I always have a hard time figuring out how…
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Women of the Blue and Gray: True Civil War Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies by Marianne Monson
Lately, I’m of a mood to read everything nonfiction. As such,…