Happy Friday!   Just a Short Take Today on a very funny book  that is sure to brighten your day.   Leo Cullum is a cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine and this 2003 collection of his dog cartoons is a real treat.   Cullum’s dogs engaged in very human conversations are both genuinely witty and laugh out [...]

I try to keep to a Monday–Friday posting schedule and for a time had been doing well with that, even if some posts were post-dated or pre-written to achieve that schedule.   The past few weeks my life off-line has been Very hectic and I have just not had the time and intellectual energy to update [...]

Resuming my regular posts with a Wednesday Easy Picture Book Roundup:   Library Mouse,  a 2007 release from author and illustrator Daniel Kirk is a delight.   Sam, a mouse who lives behind the reference shelves in the children’s section at the library is a voracious reader.   Then one day he decides to write a book [...]

I’ve mentioned before that since going to work for a large library system, I’ve pretty much stopped buying books, having as I do such a huge selection of books ever at hand, and like most library employees I make great use of my library card.  But I have to confess that Rod L Evans’  The [...]

This one is for all of my bibliophile friends, regardless of their taste in genres and subjects.  Alan Powers has written a guide for those of us who want to get the maximum enjoyment out of Living With Books.  Filled with spectacular photographs and incisive advise, Living  With Books covers everything from selecting and acquiring [...]