This book is the genesis of the popular NetFlix series of the same name, and I am admitted latecomer … More
Tag: Poverty
Drafting the Next Strategic Plan
The Thunder Bay Public Library (TBPL) Strategic Plan 2014-18 is drawing to a close and we can look back with … More
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
This book was hugely popular when it first came out in 2005 and continues to be seven years later. I’d … More
Fifty Shades of Drivel vs. Tobacco Road
This is called killing two birds with one stone and, yes, I realize that putting these two books together in … More
Ironweed, by William Kennedy
“My guilt is all I have left. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing.” I had … More