Join the mayor in reading this month’s selection: Back of the Bus, by Aaron Reynolds. This month the mayor will be visiting All Saints Academy to share the story with some very lucky students! Visit the Mayor’s Book Club webpage for more information about the club, to print out your own booklet, and to [...]
Body Work by Sara Paretsky Dark Peril by Christine Feehan Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Lost Empire by Clive Cussler Torn Between Two Lovers by Carl Weber
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, 1954 I’m just going to throw this right out there: I love this book! It is one of my all-time favorites and one of the few books that I’ve ever read more than once. (I’m not a rereader. I’m also not one to profess my love of things on blogs… [...]
I just finished reading the latest Arkady Renko novel Three Stations, by Martin Cruz Smith, and now I feel bereft. I have felt this way before when I’ve come to the end of a book that I fall in love with. Perhaps it’s more regret; regret that I’ve come to the end, that I’ll have [...]
Every Monday night, I curl up with a good book along with something warm to drink and my furry little cat snuggles close as the tinkling sounds of crowds cheering and irate sweaty men postulating drifts upstairs from the television in the living room below. My husband is invariably watching WWE. He catches it just [...]
Bearers of the Black Staff by Terry Brooks The Sonderberg Case by Elie Wiesel Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
I adore zombie movies, zombie novels, zombie graphic novels…and my dearest dream is to star as a zombie film extra. I also happen to be a history major who loves apocalyptic scenarios. So when I discovered World War Z by Max Brooks a couple of years ago, it was like I’d died and gone to [...]
For regular Atrium readers, you may be sick of me talking about it, but the final installment of The Hunger Games trilogy is almost here! Mockingjay will be released on Tuesday, August 24. I kept joking with my co-workers that I was going to take the day off just so I could read it. Then [...]
Cobra by Frederick Forsyth Crossfire by Dick Francis Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberger Postcard Killers by James Patterson Tempted by Trouble by Eric Jerome Dickey Three Stations by Martin Cruz Smith
Last night was a wonderful event with the editors and eight of the writers from Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Editor Gordon Olson read selections from the historical writings of Albert Baxter and Charles Belknap. Editor Reinder Van Til read selections from Roger Wilkin’s “Technicolor Paddy” and Max Apple’s “Rocky and [...]
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