Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
The Art of Reading Several Books at Once
Posted about 7 years ago by Nico D'Archangel
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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 […]
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Read Harder Challenge #8: Meet Me at the Intersection & Read Harder Challenge #9: Lost in the Red Hills of Mars
Posted about 7 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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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 […]
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Audiobooks as art
Posted about 7 years ago by Natalie Draper
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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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Celina’s /Z:in/ias
Posted about 7 years ago by Louis Maranski
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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 […]
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Happy Birthday, Will!
Posted about 7 years ago by Phil Shepard
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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 […]
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Read Harder Challenge #6: Ignite the Stars & Read Harder Challenge #7: The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
Posted about 7 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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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, […]
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April is National Card and Letter Writing Month
Posted about 7 years ago by Phil Shepard
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April is National Pet First Aid Awareness Month
Posted about 7 years ago by Phil Shepard
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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 […]
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New Books in Translation
Posted about 7 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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Read Harder Challenge #4: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue & Read Harder Challenge #5: We Say #NeverAgain
Posted about 7 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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