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The Gift of a Good Book
As 2022 comes to a close, Clover caps off the year with “The Gift of a Good Book” suggesting three reads that are sure to please. This...

Clover
Dec 1, 20223 min read


"Best of the Blues: The Greatest Players in Team History" Reviewed by Bill Schwab
The St. Louis Blues became one of the expansion teams of the National Hockey League in 1966. During the life of this franchise, a total...

cstucky2
Nov 30, 20222 min read


"Deliberate Cruelty" Reviewed by Pat Sainz
“Deliberate Cruelty,” by Roseanne Montillo, is the captivating true story about two well-known people involved in three murders. One was...

cstucky2
Nov 27, 20222 min read


Debbie's Pick: "Musical Tables" by Billy Collins
Poetry distills ideas down to their essence. Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of the United States and author of twelve books of...

Neighborhood Reads
Nov 25, 20221 min read


Maria's Pick: "Fellowship Point" by Alice Elliott Dark
Agnes Lee, now in her 80’s, is an author of children’s books and writes an adult fiction series under a pen name. She and her lifelong...

Neighborhood Reads
Nov 18, 20221 min read


"Song of the Cell" | Reviewed by William Winkler
Wisconsin senator William Proxmire, the champion of Earth Day, was also known for his “Golden Fleece Awards,” citations of “wasteful”...

cstucky2
Nov 17, 20222 min read


"The Lindberg Nanny" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
In 1932, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., 20-month-old son of the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh and his author wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was...

cstucky2
Nov 16, 20222 min read


"Afterlives" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
“Afterlives” is a historical novel about German East Africa and the last days of the “scramble for Africa.” The story explores the...

cstucky2
Nov 14, 20222 min read


Cheryl's Pick: "All Good People Here" by Ashley Flowers
After leaving Wakarusa, Indiana twenty years earlier, Margot reluctantly returns to her hometown to take care of her Uncle Luke who is in...

Neighborhood Reads
Nov 13, 20221 min read


"And Yet, Poems" | Reviewed by Carson Mowery
Following the publication of her first collection of poems, “What Kind of Woman,” Kate Baer has become a beloved poet whose writing...

cstucky2
Nov 13, 20221 min read


"How it Went" | Reviewed by William Winkler
Ernest Hemingway had Nick Adams. Wendell Berry has Andy Catlett. Both are fictional characters with autobiographical roots in their...

cstucky2
Nov 11, 20222 min read


Thankful for ...
Though it might sound redundant, the phrase rings true—gratitude paves the way to happiness, making us better bees and human-bee-ings....

Clover
Nov 9, 20223 min read


"Profiles in Ignorance" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Former “Harvard Lampoon” president and current “New Yorker” contributor Andy Borowitz has written a jibe-filled, but well-documented,...

cstucky2
Nov 8, 20222 min read


Sami's Pick: "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen
In this retelling of the classic Billy Goats Gruff, readers will encounter a delightful, and at times, a bit dark, story of a troll and...

Neighborhood Reads
Nov 5, 20221 min read


"Anywhere You Run" | Reviewed by Susan Ferguson
“Anywhere You Run,” by Wanda M. Morris, is a suspenseful, historical fiction novel about two Black sisters trying to escape Jackson,...

cstucky2
Nov 4, 20222 min read


"Meredith, Alone" | Reviewed by Chris Stuckenschneider
In the contemporary novel “Meredith, Alone,” by Claire Alexander, the main character suffers mightily from anxiety, panic attacks and...

cstucky2
Nov 1, 20222 min read


"Wild: The Life of Peter Beard..." | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
Wildlife photographer Peter Beard died in Montauk, New York, in March, the same month the 2020 pandemic was announced. Ironically, Beard,...

cstucky2
Oct 31, 20223 min read


Maria's Pick: "Our Missing Hearts" by Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng’s newest novel, Our Missing Hearts is set in a dystopian future where the US government, in an attempt to recover from a...

Neighborhood Reads
Oct 28, 20221 min read


"The Passenger" | Reviewed by William Winkler
Eighty-nine-year-old American writer Cormac McCarthy is the author of 12 novels as well as screenplays, short stories, and plays. His...

cstucky2
Oct 27, 20222 min read


"Babel" | Reviewed by Nelson Appell
“Babel” by R.F. Kuang is an immersive and ambitious alternate-history fantasy of the Victorian era British Empire that should be...

cstucky2
Oct 25, 20222 min read
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