Blog Posts tagged as: mystery

Pi Day: Celebrate Literary and Mathematical Constants  

Jennifer; Caroline Kravitz

Mike's Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner
We all have stories that stick with us long after we finish them. Sometimes they are childhood favorites that we have memorized every word of (for us, it’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Ella Enchanted). Other times, they are single scenes from books that send us racing to the reference desk at our local branch to play “name that title” with a librarian as we provide them with the few disjointed details we can recall (I just remember an old guy named Barney). In our experience, BPL librarians…

Celebrate Christmas in Summer!

Jennifer

The east coast is experiencing its last blast of heat this month before slipping into the cooler climate of the fall. For many people, post-Independence Day begins the countdown to Halloween while many others skip straight to Christmas. If you're looking forward to pine trees and twinkling lights decorating your home once again, then take some time to read a few of the Christmas books on this list that will appeal to any reader—from sweet romances and classic stories to fantastical twists on holiday favorites.  Many people believe that Christmas did not exist in the way we…

Books for National Tea Month: A Heady Brew of Tea & Murder Most Gentle

Carl

January is National Hot Tea Month and nestled amongst a month of heady aromas, rich flavors, hints of milk and sugar (or not), lurks National Hot Tea day January 12. There is also National Tea day (UK) on April 20 and International Tea day on December 15. With such a multitude of days commemorating it, it should come as no surprise that Tea is the 2nd most consumed beverage on earth after water.  Further the United States is the third largest importer of tea trailing only Russia and Pakistan. Whether you enjoy your tea as black or green, pu’er, white, oolong, herbal infused,…

5 Literary Trends of the 2010s

Adwoa

As a group that never shies away from a good pun, I thought I’d lean into librarianship for this post on trends of the last decade. And to keep it even more on topic, I’ve doubled down with a term that lost  relevance amongst Millennials and Gen Z years ago. Here goes... Hands down, the number one trend of the decade could be summed up as the following: If it was Lit(erary), it was On Trend Who says libraries and books are losing relevance? This last decade saw libraries and the publishing industry as veritable Hollywood incubators. The bread and butter of modern librarianship—books (…