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Friday Reads: Short Story Binge
The Booklist Reader recently had a blog post about short stories that have been turned into feature films, leading with the announcement of a new film adaptation of The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. My...
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Friday Reads: (Another) Year in Review
As we begin the countdown to 2019, the Nebraska Library Commission is looking back at all the great books we’ve reviewed in 2018! In our weekly blog series Friday Reads, a staff member at the Nebraska...
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Friday Reads: Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s...
My most vivid memory of second grade was trying to read a Sweet Valley Twins book under my desk during class, only to get caught and kept in from recess. This may have happened multiple times (sorry,...
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#BookFaceFriday “The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist”
To #BookFace, perchance to dream… “Poetry is all I have to give. I don’t know any other way to help.” Based on real-life abolitionist Gertrudis Gomez de Avellanda (Tula), Margarita Engle’s book of...
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#BookFaceFriday “Miracle on 49th Street”
This week’s bookface was nothing but net! Miracle on 49th Street by Mike Lupica is the story of professional basketball player Josh Cameron, who is suddenly confronted by 12-year-old Molly, the...
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#BookFaceFriday “Very Valentine”
If the shoe fits… Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani is the first book in the Valentine trilogy, and was an obvious choice for the week of Valentine’s Day! Love, travel, and shoes… what more could a...
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Disaster Planning and Recovery
As the floodwaters begin to recede, many communities in our state are working to assess and repair the damage left behind. Staff at the Nebraska Library Commission and Regional Library Systems have...
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Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Keiko Furukura realized as a child that she was different from everyone else. Her classmates and teachers were increasingly dismayed by her behavior and her family desperately wanted her to be “cured”...
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#BookFaceFriday “Stoner”
This week’s #BookFaceFriday is kind of a bummer, man… Does this #BookFace look familiar? You might recognize this cover from Sam Shaw’s recent Friday Reads post about “Stoner” by John Williams (NYRB...
View ArticleNebraska Archives Online from the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries
“Archivists from the four University of Nebraska institutions have collaborated to launch Nebraska Archives Online, a database that provides access to finding-aids and guides for the university...
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Beyond To Kill a Mockingbird
PBS recently posted this list of “10 books besides ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ that tackle racial injustice” and I couldn’t help but notice that the Nebraska Library Commission has several of these titles...
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#BookFaceFriday “Black Cherries”
This #BookFace seemed ripe for the picking… Black Cherries by Grace Stone Coates (Bison Books, 2003) is a reprint of the original 1931 title. “In this series of linked stories the child narrator, Veve,...
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#BookFaceFriday “Prodigal Summer”
It’s a jungle out there, #BookFaceFriday fans! Can’t you just feel the heat radiating from this rain forest setting? Oh, wait, that’s just the local weather! Set over the course of a particularly humid...
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#BookFaceFriday – The Dewey Decimal System of Love
This #BookFaceFriday has love down to a (library) science… “For questions about love, and more particularly, inappropriate love, go the 306.7s.” If you’re searching your library’s catalog for a quick,...
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Friday Reads: “Pretend I’m Dead” and “Vacuum in the Dark” by Jen Beagin
I read a review for Vacuum in the Dark and discovered that it was the sequel to Jen Beagin’s 2015 debut novel, Pretend I’m Dead. The latter tells the story of Mona, a 24-year-old cleaning woman in...
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Friday Reads: My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
It’s a well known fact that sisters have complicated relationships, possibly none more so than Korede and her younger sister Ayoola. Nurse Korede is hardworking, practical, and reliable, while her...
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#BookFaceFriday –“Dracula” by Bram Stoker
Velcome to #BookFaceFriday! Grab your garlic and wooden stakes, we’re wrapping up October with this classic tale of horror (Puffin Classics, 1994, first published 1897). Written as a series of journal...
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#BookFaceFriday –“Komi Can’t Communicate” by Tomohito Oda
Is our quiet #BookFaceFriday coolly aloof…or just super awkward? This #BookFaceFriday is also this week’s Friday Read’s post by our Youth Services Coordinator Sally Snyder! Read all about the first...
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#BookFaceFriday –“Cold Shot” by Dani Pettrey
After this week’s chilly temps, we’re ready for a smokin’ hot #BookFaceFriday! This #BookFaceFriday is the first installment of the Chesapeake Valor series by romantic suspense author Dani Pettrey. Is...
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#BookFaceFriday –“Curmudgeons, Drunkards, & Outright Fools by Thomas P. Lowry
As you prepare to ring in the new year, don’t get caught in a compromising position like those in our #BookFaceFriday, Thomas P. Lowry’s “Curmudgeons, Drunkards, & Outright Fools: Courts-Martial...
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