Helpful, but definitely not a self-help book. Based on the author’s experience, but not a traditional memoir. A picture book full of scribbles. Elizabeth Swados’s My Depression: A Picture Book is hard to classify but even harder to forget. The author makes a subject that many people find impossible to talk about accessible and… Continue reading My Depression – A Picture Book and a Film
Author: Kate Lapinski
Too Cool for the Nobel Prize?
Music’s mysterious cool guy: it’s a role that Bob Dylan has been filling for decades but he’s really taken it to the next level in the past couple of weeks. There is a committee trying to reach him with news that almost every other artist would be delighted by… he won the Nobel Prize!!!… Continue reading Too Cool for the Nobel Prize?
The Life & Legacy of Muhammad Ali
Often known as simply “The Greatest,” Muhammad Ali passed away on Friday. If the things that you’ve been reading and hearing about him have you curious to learn more, check out some of the illuminating titles in our collection. You won’t regret it! 2015’s Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcom X… Continue reading The Life & Legacy of Muhammad Ali
An American Original: Walt Whitman
May 31, 1819 marked the arrival on this earth of a spectacular soul – a poet, a lover, a humanist, an American. Walt Whitman may have been writing nearly a hundred years ago, but his life and his words are as truly radical now as they were then. We have lots of Walt’s titles, poetry and… Continue reading An American Original: Walt Whitman
The Best ________ Ever
There’s always plenty of disagreement when something is named THE BEST. Whether it’s a List of the Top Pizza places in Chicagoland by a local food writer or a list of The Best 50 Guitarists in Rock’n’Roll by a big music magazine, there’s bound to be disagreement. And that disagreement can turn nasty when… Continue reading The Best ________ Ever
Field Museum is FREE this Month!
The Field has free general admission for IL state residents every day in the month of February. The museum is open 9 AM to 5 PM every day. Here’s the website if you want to check it out before your visit. Everybody loves free things and when what you are getting is entry into one… Continue reading Field Museum is FREE this Month!
Give A Little (Or A Lot If You’re Mark Zuckerberg)
Tuesday, December 1st was #GivingTuesday, a nice idea that’s become a bit of a movement in recent years to combat the hardcore consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Besides all the support that worthy charities and community based organizations (hopefully) received, the world had even more heartening news when new parents Mark Zuckerberg and… Continue reading Give A Little (Or A Lot If You’re Mark Zuckerberg)
Thanksgiving is Next Week – Plan Your Menu Now!
Now is the time for the Moraine community to give thanks for our abundance of library resources. Items in our collection can help you make the holiday a delicious one whether you’re hosting, contributing a dish or cooking for yourself. The Nov/Dec issue of Cook’s Illustrated will give you EVERYTHING on turkey: buying, prepping, cooking,… Continue reading Thanksgiving is Next Week – Plan Your Menu Now!
Beat Stress & Find Balance this Semester
We’ve put the long lazy days of summer behind us. Goodbye lazy sunlit afternoons, hello frantic nights in class or in front of a screen! It’s easy as the work piles up and crowds out countless other commitments to feel out of balance and just not quite right. Although many of us have accepted a certain amount… Continue reading Beat Stress & Find Balance this Semester
Reading to Learn About Ourselves: Books About Books
Dissecting great books that have endured and are beloved and familiar to many is a great way to look at what we, as a society, value and how we view ourselves. We have two stellar new books in our After Class collection worth checking out that explore this issue. Anyone who has ever heard Maureen Corrigan’s… Continue reading Reading to Learn About Ourselves: Books About Books