Read This! Staff Pics ~ Beach Reads

If you’re looking for a good book for the final weeks of summer, here are some recommendations. When asked what book they would bring to the beach with them this summer, our intrepid staff offered up the following: Sisters ~ Danielle Steel The Great Gatsby ~ F....

Fictional Heartbreakers

We asked staff to tell us which fictional character would most likely have broken their hearts. Our biggest heartbreak was that we didn’t get it up in time for Valentine’s Day! 1. Han Solo – Star Wars by George Lucas OK, not so literary since it was...

Best of 2007

The results are in and all bets are off! We just didn’t see all that non-fiction coming. From Heaven to Starbucks and Harry to Stalin our staff has picked the best from all genres. Books published in 2007 The top picks with two votes each were: Thousand Splendid...

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

“If you could invite any character(s) over for dinner, who would you choose?” that’s what we asked staff for the third part of our survey series. Here’s the guest list: Santiago – the Alchemist; Marilla Cuthbert – Anne of Green...

I Did Want to “Read This!”

Did you ever wish you could have picked out which books you were assigned to read in high school? To complement our list of books that staff hated reading  in high school, we have a second list of books that staff wished they were assigned to read. We hope this...

I Did Not Want to “Read This!”

This is the first of a series of “Read This!” surveys designed to encourage debate. We asked staff what books they were assigned to read in high school that they absolutely hated. Next week we’ll post the results of the second part of the survey in...