You trudge through the drifts, bits of ice falling onto your neck and trickling under your collar. Your toes are numb, your eyelashes stick together, your breath condenses on the scarf over your mouth. Your core is so cold it’s almost warm, surely the beginning of hypothermia. The scent of chai tea wafts over you…
Book Corner: Life-as-Experiment Books Inform and Entertain
Twelve books to read in 2020 if you want to see how others are living their best lives (or not).
Book Corner: Library Staff, Readers Share Top Picks of 2019
The number of books that exists in this world is absolutely mind-blowing. According to the great wizard of Google, about 130 million books have been published in modern history. So, if you were born today (I’m taking a wild guess that you were not) and live to be 90, you’d have to read 1.44 million…
Book Corner: Get Spooked, Day or Night, with These Chilling Stories
With these chilling recommendations, you may want to leave the lights on.
Book Corner: Summer Readers Soaked up Sun and Stories
Central Rappahannock Regional Library’s Summer Reading program may have come to an end, but the many books we read can be enjoyed all year long. I’m proud that more than 1,700 adults participated, and expect that number to be even higher next year. (I’m looking at you!) So what did everyone read over the summer…
Book Corner: Books to Spark a Thirst for Lifelong Learning
Librarian Tracy recommends books to inspire, motivate you to keep learning and protect that precious brain.
Book Corner: Escapism Is Not a Dirty Word—So Give Your Brain a Break with Some Genre Fiction
Adult Services Coordinator Tracy McPeck recommends wonderful new titles to help you enjoy your next escape.
Book Corner: Shoot for the Moon When Choosing Your Next Read
Today, we take for granted the knowledge that the Moon is a solid chunk of rock that rotates around the Earth, and the mystical Man in the Moon is just a collection of craters (thank Galileo for that tidbit). We also know that the Moon rotates on its axis in synchronicity with the Earth, which…
Book Corner: Armchair Travel with Books
Some of us are bitten by the travel bug early on in life, while some prefer to cuddle up on the couch at home with their cats and mugs of tea. Some of us long to travel far and wide, but are knee-deep in student loan debt and saddled with kids (by “saddled” I mean…
Book Corner: How (and Why) to Keep on Learning
Are you familiar with the phrase “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”? That turns out not to be true; the internet said so. The old-school way of thinking is that you can’t do certain things, such as learning a new language or instrument unless you start early in life. That sounds pretty discouraging…
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