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June is Audiobook Month! To celebrate, borrow a Nonfiction audiobook from Carnegie-Stout Public Library's collection. Here are a few mem...

When I find something that makes me smile, I just want to share it with everyone. This means that I've told pretty much every friend and...

I cannot recommend the memoir Educated by Tara Westover highly enough. It is captivating -- practically un-put-downable -- and very well ...

Downton Abbey has become the gold standard of period dramas. For many people, nothing will ever compare and though it ran for 6 series (...

My first review for this blog , back in 2015, was of Celeste Ng’s debut novel, Everything I Never Told You , which impressed me with its ...

Recently I've needed a gentle, upbeat escape in the evenings, so I started watching Call the Midwife . This historical drama about a tea...

You might recognize Diane Guerrero from Jane the Virgin  or Orange is the New Black , but this isn't your typical celebrity memoir. G...

Even if you've never seen Bob's Burgers , you probably recognize Louise's pink bunny hat. In fact, the entire Belcher family has...

Spoonbenders , by Daryl Gregory made me laugh more than any other book I've read lately. Gregory’s story about the Amazing Telemach...

If you were one of the lucky folks who got to meet award-winning mystery author Lori Rader-Day when she visited Carnegie-Stout Public Lib...

A princess, locked in a tower, guarded by a dragon, waiting for a prince to save her so she can marry him and they can live Happily Ever...

I don't know why it has taken me almost twenty years to notice the essay collection The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard and read (o...

The Art of Crash Landing by Melissa DeCarlo may not have been the most well written book I've read in 2015, but its one that I reall...

Ouch! This book hurts. It’s also dazzlingly beautiful, but the more you succumb to the beauty of the prose and of the remote island settin...

If you're looking for a quick, uplifting read with a little more substance than your usual summer flicks, I have a recommendation for ...

A lot was riding on how I felt about  How to Start a Fire  by  Lisa Lutz . Lutz is one of my favorite authors and wrote my favorite series...