A Series Of (Un)Fortunate Reviews

This is the fifth and final installment of the Staff Picks 2014 series.  It'll be back again next January with our picks for 2015!  To catch up on previous installments, you can click here , here , here , and here .  Today Miss Shayne, one of our library aides, shares some of her favorites from 2014. Favorite Books This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Opel, is an adventurous story of how a brother would go to extreme lengths to save his twin.  Miss Shayne enjoyed the excitement and the theme of the importance of family. The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger; Miss Shayne says the main character is very honest and explains everything in detail. Favorite Movies The Incredible Hulk and The Amazing Spiderman ; Miss Shayne says that both of these movies are good superhero films that were re-made with better special effects.

This is the fourth installment of our Staff Picks 2014 series.  To read previous installments, please click here , here and here .  In this installment Miss Cherrie, who is a volunteer here at the library, shares her favorites from the past year. Favorite Books Wonder by R.J. Palacio.  Miss Cherrie says, "This is a kid's book, but I loved it." The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and The Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin.  Miss Cherrie says, "I liked the beginning especially and the part about the presidents when they were younger. ... It was really long." Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult. "I liked it, and I couldn't put it down," Miss Cherrie says. Favorite Movies The Monuments Men Parkland

Throughout the month of January I'm sharing our staff picks in a multi-part series.  You can read the previous installments here and here .  In today's installment I'm sharing my picks for the previous year.  All of my picks for books have been reviewed here on the blog, and I encourage you to click the link to read the review for each pick. Favorite Books An Inquiry Into Love and Death and Silence For The Dead , both by Simone St. James: thus far, I've read and reviewed all of St. James' novels after falling in love with her debut novel, The Haunting of Maddy Clare .  These novels are must reads for anyone who loves a good period piece with more than a dash of terror and/or suspense of the supernatural persuasion thrown in. The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, A Plotting Duchess & A Family Secret by Catherine Bailey: if it seems like these picks have theme so far, sorry, that's just the way my picks shook out this year.  I think ...

Throughout the month of January I'm sharing our staff picks of reads, movies, and websites that we enjoyed over the past year.  This is the second installment of the series.  To read the first installment, please click here to read about Miss Sheila's picks.  Today I'll share Timothy's picks for 2014.  Timothy is one of our assistants here at the library where he works part-time while attending college. Favorite books from 2014 (listed in no particular order): The Story of a Macaron-loving Girl Who Lived a Thousand Years Somehow by Karate Everything Is Going To Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways The World Wants You Dead by Robert Brockway Jam by Yahtzee Croshaw Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh Favorite movies from 2014 : Guardians of the Galaxy Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Rebellion Story Timothy enjoys seeing what other people are read...

We're kicking off 2015 with a new series here on the blog!  Throughout the month of January, I will be sharing our Staff Picks of 2014.  This is the first part of a multi-part series in which library staff will share their favorite books, movies and/or literary websites or blogs from the previous year.  We're starting off with Miss Sheila's picks for 2014.  So keep on reading to find out what Miss Sheila's been reading over the past year! Although she has read many books during 2014, Miss Sheila is hard pressed to name her favorite novel.  That’s because all the books she enjoyed throughout the year fell into the nonfiction category.  Oddly enough, her favorite topic to read about is ... physics.   “The discoveries being made daily in the science of physics, as well as the discoveries made during the last one hundred years or so are nothing short of  fascinating”, Miss Sheila tells us.  “The ideas and theories brought together by t...

In the new year I'll be starting a new annual series that will present the library staff's favorites from the previous year.  Each Friday in January a new installment of the series will post, and you'll get to see not only my favorite reads from 2014, but you'll also get a taste of what Miss Sheila and some other staff members here at the library were reading and loving over the past year. In the meantime, you can check out what I've read in 2014 and what I thought about it (because you know I have strong opinions about some of these books!) by clicking the links in the Blog Archive on the right side of the screen.  And if you also read some of these books after hearing about them here on the blog, I want to hear about that too!  You can tell me what you thought about them in the comments for this post. What did you read in 2014?  What were your favorites from the past year?  Share those in the comments too!  We want to hear from you! --posted by Ms...