Suspension of Disbelief (Part 1)

Ahem. I’m cheating a little folks. This is a repeat of something I wrote for Project Mayhem, but since the audience for that blog and this one are *mostly* different, I thought it was worth posting here. My apologies to the few people who belong to the...

Librarians and Communities

Many Pennsylvanians have been disappointed to discover that our new Democratic governor, Tom Wolf, hasn’t turned out to be any better supporter of libraries than his much-despised predecessor, Republican Tom Corbett. Libraries aren’t even on Wolf’s radar and...

First Impressions: GOODNIGHT, SWEET PRINCE

We only have one submission for August First Impressions this month, but it’s one with an intriguing premise! This is the first page of  Maria Anna Witt’s GOODNIGHT, SWEET PRINCE – a modern re-envisioning of Hamlet centered around a teenage boy band instead of a...

Something New I Learned Last Week

It could be that I’m the only person who didn’t know this already, but last week I learned what some of the codes on the copyright page of a book mean. A friend of my husband’s, who happened to be a lawyer, sent him a message saying he’d...