This reviewer has been an avid reader of science fiction novels ever since discovering them in a small-town library in Illinois. Those books were “a ticket out of town” and transported the reader to different worlds, thereby broadening imagination and creating a literary thirst for more of the same. “THING First Contact” by author Kendall […]
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Recommended Reading: Love is ‘strange’
By Amy Krakow Carbondale Library It’s the amorous month of February, so it would be appropriate to review a romantic novel. Instead, however, I am going to steal an arrow from Cupid’s quiver and review a hilarious and sensitive graphic novel that I’m madly in love with. Based on his wildly popular Instagram comics, it’s […]
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Recommended Reading: “The Summer of Lost Letters”
By Jamie Dale GCPLD Youth Services Coordinator As a child, I would often leave fake love letters hidden in the walls of houses while we were moving out. I wanted desperately to find one of these hidden messages myself; to have the joy and intrigue of solving a mystery and learning of a secret, tragic […]