Sunday, July 5, 2020

Armchair Bibliotherapy

Today’s titles are recommended for days when nonstop disinfecting, breaking news updates, and back-to-back online meetings leave you feeling overwhelmed.  


These pop culture correspondences include a memo from Hotel California management to its staff about policy revisions. (You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave, seems to annoy the guests.) NASA sends a letter to Elton John clarifying some key aspects of space travel. And Darth Vadar struggles to find the right words in his unsent letters to Luke.    


Booklovers will enjoy reading letters ranging from heartfelt to hilarious penned by a librarian to the books in her life. Feel inspired? Grab a pen and write a personal note to your own favorite book.  

A teenage girl exchanges an abusive home life for hard work in a vicar's hours in 1830 England and pays a heavy price while achieving her greatest dream - learning to read and write. An inspiring and thoughtful book!    




A Japanese family maintains quiet resilience through years of internment in this slim, but thought-provoking historical fiction novel.





Discover magical tiny worlds and how to create them. Experienced fairy gardeners, newbies, and non-gardeners will enjoy these captivating and whimsical creations.  


Enjoy short tales from The Hundred Acre Woods featuring hyperactive Tigger, curious Pooh, gloomy Eyeore, kind Kanga, and the rest of A.A. Milne's beloved and very relatable characters. 


Alicia Cavitt
Information Specialist
#WeKnowBooks

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