Literature
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Audiobooks can help get you through forced family time. Here are picks for listening together.
Mar 30, 2020 6:00 AM - The present emergency has brought with it a lot of forced family time. Downloadable audiobooks present a solution, and here are a handful of gems, some written for children but engaging enough for adults -- and none with content unsuitable for young people.
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Today's Recommended Read: "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer
Mar 30, 2020 6:00 AM - Not every Pulitzer Prize-winning novel makes you laugh out loud, but today's Recommended Read -- "Less," by Andrew Sean Greer -- is pretty, pretty funny. -
Book review: 'In Our Prime' is a call to action
Mar 29, 2020 7:28 AM - Susan J. Douglas has devoted her career to making crucial observations on feminism and the lives of women. Now she's back with "In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead."
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Today's recommended read: "Yes Please" by Amy Poehler
Mar 28, 2020 6:00 AM - "Yes Please," released in 2014 as Amy Poehler was going through a divorce, is part comedy bit, part self-help book. And it's a fun read. -
Not tech-savvy? Here's help for downloading books, using Zoom and talking to Alexa
Mar 28, 2020 7:30 AM - With calls for social distancing, folks are shifting to technology. If you're confused about how to download library books or get Alexa to read you newspaper headlines, here are a few tips. -
Book review: Sigma Force returns in 'The Last Odyssey,' one of Rollins' best
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Today's Recommended Read: 'Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea' by Gary Kinder
Mar 27, 2020 6:00 AM - Rare is the book that grabs you from the first page and takes you on a memorable journey through the final sentence. Today's suggested read, "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea," does just that. -
Need a new outlook? Naperville teen's book emphasizes optimism
Mar 26, 2020 6:32 AM - A book by a Naperville teen contains a message the virus-weary world might do well to hear. It's about positivity. -
Today's recommended read: 'We Would Have Played For Nothing' by Faye Vincent
Mar 26, 2020 6:00 AM - You're a baseball fan, you must stay at home and there's no baseball on TV. Now's a good time to go behind the scenes of the major leagues decades ago with Faye Vincent's "We Would Have Played For Nothing." -
Book review: 'The Glass Hotel' a tragic tale for the times
Mar 26, 2020 6:00 AM - Emily St. John Mandel's new novel, "The Glass Hotel," tells the story of Vincent, a young woman whose fate we know from the first sentence, but it's the title that inspires the novel's central theme.
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