Art Lives Here: Rutgers Urban Sketching 2021
Last month was an easy month. We used to say this in my previous library all the time. Little did we know that the sentence will travel through continents and … Read More
Cook Reads
On the Road: Bibliotherapy for Hungarians Abroad
Last month I participated in a bibliotherapy session called On the Road geared toward Hungarians living outside the country. What a great idea, I thought when I saw the invitation. … Read More
Staff Picks: A Matter of Life and Death
A chance to go goofy and embrace our inner child for most, Halloween is probably my least favorite holiday. Even though I take pleasure in watching kids dressed up and … Read More
Staff Picks: The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
When I was asked to join the “Books We Read” team, I thought nothing of writing about the book I was reading at the time (sounds like the objective, right?). … Read More
Shelf Help: Bibliotherapy in Libraries
You might have noticed books on a shelf in your public library labelled “bibliotherapy.” You might have read about a bibliotherapy display in a bookstore. What the heck is this … Read More
Unlikable Characters
Does a book’s main character always have to be likable? If you think back on your favorite main characters, many were almost surely ones you liked, or at least admired … Read More
Reading Middlemarch
This post starts with a confession: Middlemarch, by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans), is widely considered one of the greatest novels ever written––certainly the odds-on favorite for … Read More
New Hungarian Law Challenges Librarians
A children’s book shredded in public by a member of the parliament. A poster outside a bookstore warning customers of books with “homosexual propaganda dangerous to children.” A mayor demanding that … Read More
Banned Books as a Parenting Tool: Lessons from The Giver
I have always enjoyed children’s and young adult (YA) books and continue to read them even as an adult. When I became a parent, I loved reading books to my … Read More
Cozy Mysteries from Rutgers Libraries
If you’re appalled by violence and graphic details in a book or movie but––pun intended––you’d kill for a good mystery, cozy mysteries are for you. Rest assured, you are not … Read More