Reading for Recovery: Alcohol Memoirs
Note: we are reposting a series of pieces written to accompany the ALA-funded Reading for Recovery Project. The following was originally published in the December 2015 issue of the Information … Read More
Note: we are reposting a series of pieces written to accompany the ALA-funded Reading for Recovery Project. The following was originally published in the December 2015 issue of the Information … Read More
Last semester, I was tasked with finding a short story for Tales We Read, the Fall 2020 semester recreational reading program at Rutgers – New Brunswick. I quickly realized I … Read More
Watching the snowfall in the freezing cold in New Jersey, one thinks fondly of the past summer, the time for audiobooks. Our corona reads book recommendations also included this format, … Read More
Strapped for ideas how to engage students in the online classroom? Scrambling for methods and resources to maintain momentum? Enter book covers. A popular internet game called “Name That Book” … Read More
Members of the Rutgers University community in New Brunswick had a lot of fun in Fall 2020 by documenting their campus and daily life via Urban Sketching. This sentence, which … Read More
As I started writing about the Rutgers Urban Sketching project, I found myself wondering about the difference between sketching and drawing. Eventually, I turned to the dictionary, where I learned … Read More
No big holiday plans for a while, not in these days, unfortunately. But it doesn’t mean that we can’t plan ahead, at least in our heads for now. Let’s jump … Read More
Jenny’s post is right: the obvious, and boring, choice would be a survival guide of some sort. As an eighteenth-century specialist, I’d even be tempted to get too cute and … Read More
When asked the dreaded desert island question (What’s the one book you would bring with you when stranded on a desert island) I always complain and drag my feet. How … Read More
A copy of The Good Soldier Švejk by Czech humorist-anarchist-writer, Jaroslav Hašek, is the book I have kept around me all my life. In my office I also display a sketch … Read More