Monday, March 28, 2022

GARDENING

Spring is here!  Now that Spring has officially arrived, it is time to start thinking about your gardens. 
Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plans.  You may have a garden full of ornamental plants that contains flowers and other plants for their visual appearance, or a garden full of useful plants that you have planted with the purpose of eating.  No matter your preference, gardens are everywhere!

Whether you are new to gardening or an old pro, you will find some great books in this week's post.  We have a few picture books to share with the children in your lives, nonfiction gardening books, and cookbooks to help you use the fruits and vegetables in your garden.


Children's Picture Books
In Our Garden by Pat Zietlow Miller
Thank You, Garden by Liz Garton Scanlon
In the Garden by Emma Giuliani

Nonfiction Gardening Books
My Wild Garden by Meir Shalev
Regrow Your Veggies by Melissa Raupach
A Year In My Garden by Jacqueline van der Kloet
The Lifelong Gardner by Toni Gattone
Container Gardening Complete by Jessica Walliser
Plant, Sow, Make, and Grow by Esther Coomles

Cookbooks
How to Grill Vegetables by Steven Raichlen
The Farmer's Daughter Bakes by Kelsey Siemens
Veggies and Fish by Bart Van Olphen
The Weekday Vegetarians by Jenny Rosenstrach
Fresh from Poland by Michal Korkosz
The Complete Summer Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen


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Monday, March 21, 2022

SHERLOCK SPINOFFS


Are you a fan of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries?  Then, this is the blog post for you!  

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective that was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Holmes is best known for his abilities of observation, deduction, and reasoning that he utilizes while solving cases.  Numerous movie and TV adaptations of been made based off the original works.  If you have already read the original works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (or watched some of the television shows and movies), you may be interested in some of these spinoffs and retellings.

Adult Fiction:

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabar
Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
Dust and Shadow by Lyndsay Faye
The Baker Street Letters by Michael Robertson
The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes by Leonard Goldberg
A Study in Pink by Steven Moffat
The Baker Street Four by Jean-Blaise Djian


Children's Fiction:
Sherlock Holmes and the Disappearing Diamonds by Sam Hearn 


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Monday, March 14, 2022

BOOK MADNESS 2022

Selection Sunday is over, and the NCAA basketball tournament seeds have been settled.  That means it's time for our Book Madness Tournament!  

Each year we compile a list of the top circulating titles in Rock County from the previous year.  That list is used to create our own tournament that runs alongside the college basketball tournament.  This week's blog post will feature the titles that were lucky enough to draw seeds 1-4. 

Interested in the full list?  Stop by the library's Book Madness display to pick up a copy of the book list, look over the bracket, and/or take home one of the books on display.




#1 Seeds
#2 Seeds
#3 Seeds
#4 Seeds

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Monday, March 7, 2022

HISTORICAL FICTION


This month, Mixed Bag Book Club is reading historical fiction.  Participants can read any book they want (as long as it's historical fiction) for our meeting on Thursday, March 24.  

Historical fiction is a genre that focuses on telling stories of the past.  These works of fiction are typically written at least 30 years after the event or time period.  Most of the time, the novel's ideas, settings, descriptions, etc. come from the author's research.  The time period of the book and/or the real historical events that occurred during the time play an important role in the story just as the characters and plot do.  Most historical fiction novels are realistic in nature.  However, you can find some that also have elements of fantasy or magical realism.  

New to historical fiction, or looking for some new authors to read?  Give one of these titles a try!

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis
Violeta by Isabel Allende
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

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