Natalie Draper's Posts
RPL Author
Pandemic? Don’t Panic. Stay home and read!
Posted about 5 years ago by Natalie Draper
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Reading Recommendations
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A good book can get you through just about any crisis, and sometimes, reading about the very thing that scares us can be a thrill, or catharsis. If you don’t […]
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Best of 2019! The annual ultimate pre-holiday mega-list of RPL staff picks
Posted about 5 years ago by Natalie Draper
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Book Reviews
What’s the best book you read this year? We asked our staff and this is what they had to say: Tonya Tyler, Senior Library Technician, Belmont Library: I read anything […]
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Hopper-esque Reads
Posted about 5 years ago by Natalie Draper
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Book Reviews
Like many, many other people, I visited the Edward Hopper exhibit now on display at the VMFA over Thanksgiving. Hopper is one of my favorite artists so I was especially […]
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Rising seas
Posted about 5 years ago by Natalie Draper
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Book Reviews
In The Great Derangement, acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh questions our collective “imaginative failure” in the face of global warming. He examines our failure to “grasp the scale and violence […]
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Engaging with authors
Posted about 5 years ago by Natalie Draper
I admit it, I am the sort of person who shares YouTube videos of favorite authors talking and reading at university lecterns, or hanging out in nice chairs on stages […]
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Under the radar: Coming soon from indie presses and new in translation
Posted about 5 years ago by Natalie Draper
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Book Reviews
Pardon me, I’m just coming down from the experience of taking in the new Colson Whitehead novel, The Nickel Boys, in one sitting and having a hard time focusing on […]
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Audiobooks as art
Posted about 6 years ago by Natalie Draper
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Audiobooks, Book Reviews
There are good audiobook narrators, bad ones, just ok ones, or really excellent audiobook narrators. And sometimes the audiobook version of a novel enhances the text so much that it […]
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New Books in Translation
Posted about 6 years ago by Natalie Draper
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Book Reviews
This week I’m bringing you a short list of what I’ve been enjoying from distant shores lately. The Wall by Max Annas, translated from the German by Rachel Hildebrandt I […]
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Robert’s picks: French Film Festival
Posted about 6 years ago by Natalie Draper
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Film
Bonjour (or bonsoir, depending on what time of day you’re reading this)! Time again for the French Film Festival, hosted by the Byrd Theatre as it has been for over […]
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RPL’s “Best of the Best” of 2018
Posted about 6 years ago by Natalie Draper
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Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations
2018, what a great year for books! What year isn’t, really, but some years feel special. This year my personal list of favorites was 31 titles long. While I work […]
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