Ex Libris: More October Books
Inevitably, there are one or two T-shirt-style mottos or slogans that tend to speak to me more than others. “Let the Wookiee Win” appeals to my not-so-inner curmudgeon.
Ex Libris: Making Things Up
The professional side of my reading ledger is always both pleasingly full and pleasingly regular, although no matter how many times I used it, that “professional” always feels a little odd as a description. After all, the new releases I read every month might be my profession, but they’re also my passion, which makes them feel entirely personal instead of professional.
Ex Libris: November Books
For well over a century at least, publishers have tended to load the month of November with
their “heaviest,” most serious books. You might get a work of military history in May, but you’ll
get a whole West Point of them in November.
Ex Libris: Books to Movies!
Those of you who pay attention to movie-news will know that the biggest cinematic event of the last month involves a book: it’s celebrated director Denis Villeneuve’s $170 million production of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction novel Dune.
Ex Libris: National Library Week
National Library Week has been pretty rough, these last two years. It’s typically in April, and in early April of 2020, the country was first starting to realize that this weird new public health emergency, this new virus called COVID-19, was not going to magically go away – that it very well might, in fact, get much, much worse.