If you love the mysteries of the English language as much as we do, then you’re going to love this episode of Book Drops. Get ready to add to your reading list. Reggie from Lending joins Don to share some of their recommended reads for linguists. How to Speak Brit by C.J. Moore The quintessential A to Z guide to…
Some of the best shows and movies are inspired by books. Don and Sarah return to discuss some of the titles that they’re looking forward to watching. IN THEATRE Death on the Nile (February 11) Based on Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile; one of the Hercule Poirot series – 47 books in Christie’s series started publishing in 1920. The…
SO many lists at the end of the year! How do you decide what’s notable, best, award-winning, Top 10, or Top 100 list? List-making is inherently fraught with caveats and disappointments! “Why wasn’t XYZ on there!” Genre books don’t necessarily make it on the “Best Books” of the year unless you’re specifically looking at “The Best Sci-Fi…” or “The Best Romance Titles of…” even…
Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library is hosting Come Write-In Online events that will include pep talks from published authors and activities to kickstart your writing. Upcoming Writers Writing Resources at Your Library! Click the title to search WorldCat or search for your local public library. Print eBooks Selected Online Resources Online via your local library
The best-laid schemes of mice and men go often askew Robert Burns, poet Before the closures due to the pandemic, the Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library had planned a series of workshops and lectures in collaboration with Free Comic Book Day 2020 at Carol & John’s Comic Book Shop in Cleveland, Ohio. (The same business highlighted by Gov. Dewine for…
Whitney Porter, the Ohio Center for the Book’s new Scholar-in-Residence, is kicking off her role by interviewing comics creator Sina Grace. Grace, the creator of Iceman, Nothing Lasts Forever, and Self-Obsessed, will appear this Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Flaming River Con. Porter is a Ph.D. candidate in English and a teaching fellow at Kent State University. In her Scholar-in-Residence application, she expressed an interest in working with the Get Graphic! comic discussion…