Book Reviews

Posted about 1 week ago by Naomi D'Archangel

Posted in Book Reviews, Children's, Events | Tagged with picture books, Summer Reading

It’s that time of year friends! Summer fun in the sun! Your Richmond Public Library is full of activities that follow along with our theme this year of Explore Your […]

Posted about 2 weeks ago by Naomi D'Archangel

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations

As an avid and hungry reader, I am in a constant state of flux, reading several books at the “same time.” Why the quotations there? It’s not like I have […]

Posted about 3 weeks ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Book Reviews

Prompt #8: An #ownvoices book set in Oceania If you read my Read Harder planning post back in December, you know that I had planned to read a different book […]

Posted about 1 month ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in 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 […]

Posted about 1 month ago by Celina Williams

Posted in Book Reviews

Welcome to my inaugural post as a regular contributor to Shelf Respect! I’m excited about the opportunity to write and to share in this space. Originally, I asked to write […]

Posted about 2 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews

  Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? — “Twelfth Night”     William Shakespeare was baptized on 26 April, 1564, so […]

Posted about 2 months ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Book Reviews

Prompt #6: A book by an AOC set in or about space Full disclosure:  I was dreading this particular prompt.  Scifi is probably my least favorite genre to read.  So, […]

Posted about 2 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with letter writing

Posted about 2 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with first aid for pets

Very early one rainy morning, I let my five dogs outside for their morning constitutional before breakfast. Only four came back inside. The Rosebud, a sheltie-cavalier mix (and my only […]

Posted about 2 months ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in 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 […]