How to Keep House While Drowning: a gentle approach to cleaning and organizing by K. C. Davis. New York, NY: Simon Element, 2022.

Content Warning: Ableism, Mental Illness.

Prior to the Covid-19 shutdown, I blamed my untidy home on time management. My spouse and I both worked forty hours a week, and most weeks …

October is the perfect time to explore the horror genre, but with so many options, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are a few recommendations to fit readers of all tastes!

If You Want a Classic, try The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

In The Haunting of Hill …

Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

Content Warnings: Murder, Suicide, Strong Language

The late 1990s.  A snowed-in old hotel in upstate New York.  Its aging manager, who remembers the building’s grand heyday but is starting to forget most everything else.  Hundreds of teenagers packed in for a music competition.  A …

To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West by Mark Lee Gardner; William Morrow (332 pages, $27).

Published in 2009, Mark Lee Gardner’s To Hell on a Fast Horse is a deep dive into Sheriff Pat Garrett’s legendary chase and …

Cyna Woodard, Reference Assistant at May Memorial Library

Congratulations to Cyna Woodard as the new Reference Assistant at the May Memorial Library. What are excited to see what she can do in her new full-time roll since we know that she was able to implement some wonderful new programming while she worked part-time at the Graham Library.

How long have …

Widowland by C. J. Carey. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2022]

All I can say about Widowland is, wow. This book pulled me in from the first page, and I had trouble putting it down.

Widowland is an alternate history historical fiction, in a world where England created an “Alliance” with Germany in the …

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2022. 401 pages, $28.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is a love story between two characters who never have a romantic relationship. Through masterful storytelling, Zevin tells the story of Sam and Sadie, two complicated people who …

“Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It” by David M. Ewalt; Scribner (288 pages, $26).

Published in 2013 in celebration of D&D’s 5th Edition, David Ewalt’s Of Dice and Men is a deep dive into the classic fantasy tabletop roleplaying game and cultural phenomena …

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

Other Birds is a wonderfully written story by Sarah Addison Allen. Her quirky, magical tales are always a delight to read.When Zoey arrives on Mallow Island, South Carolina, she feels both like she’s come home and like she’s an outsider who doesn’t belong anywhere. Her mother emigrated …