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Tastes Change – Try Something Old by The Stereotypical Librarian - Horseradish, as a kid just the smell of it could send me running in the opposite direction but as I matured the taste of it on my sandwich is delectable. Just as a person’s choice of condiment changes from ketchup to horseradish perhaps their reading taste should also change. Make your reading selections more flavorful…
DVDs by the Stereotypical Librarian - Daring villains dangerously Display violence deemed destructive vindictive distraction. Distorting vice delights dozing viewers demanding decadent variety. Disney does virtuous detail Declaring values demonstrated domestically. Vinyl disks draw vivaciously. Dough dominates volume. Darn, Denizens voice dismay, despair Victory due, drudgery vanquished Duty delayed verse done! Lewistown Public Library for all your DVD desires!
Seriously; Series, do we really need to read EVERY book? By the Stereotypical Librarian - It is time to launch the series reader’s anonymous group and this is why. Libraries can’t keep going on like this; our shelves simple won’t support this new obsession with book series. Here at our library we have series that are rapidly approaching 50 books. And I do mean rapidly, more than 2 books a…
Never-ending Importance of Mothers by the Stereotypical Librarian - Two new moving memoirs explore the mother daughter dynamic. Written by daughters from very different walks of life both books demonstrate the importance of understanding and accepting their mother’s flaws and strengths in order to understand their own. Mothers being human make mistakes. “After the Eclipse” by Sarah Perry reads like a page turning mystery. …
All Different In The Same Way by the Stereotypical Librarian - Reading books besides being fun can also help us examine human nature. In the books I’ve read this month the similarities of people in the stories, their actions, feelings, and thoughts regardless of the countries they are from or the time period in which they live are fascinating. Human beings all seem to want to…
