I don’t usually do book recommendations with this space, but I feel compelled. Let’s start at the end… My wife and I are currently watching Station Eleven on HBO Max. It is a ten-episode series based on the 2014 book by Emily St. John Mandel. The book did well but it wasn’t exactly a runaway … Continue reading Station Eleven from Page to Screen — Director Ryan Johnson’s Library News & Notes
Once a book is made into a film, its circulation stats go through the roof and we have lines of eager readers on the hold list. (Not that we're complaining!) Don't worry page-to-screen aficionados — the librarians of O'Fallon have you covered. Get a jump on the maddening crowd and reserve the books being made … Continue reading From Page-to-Screen: Here are some of the books being made into movies in 2022
One of the features of the library that is always changing is our displays. We have three main displays. The first is our largest display which features three shelves. You will find it across from the bubble wall. Next, is our round display shelf in the center of our marketplace area. Our newest display area … Continue reading What’s in the Display “Under the Stairs”: a January 2022 Spotlight on Library Services
Instead of one book for Five Star Friday, I'm featuring an author instead. Since the first of December is upon us, why not read a Charles Dickens story or two. Here I've outlined a few works to give you a better idea of what you may like to read. A Christmas Carol In the Victorian … Continue reading Charles Dickens, A Reader’s Advisory from O’Fallon Public Library
This week's Five Star recommendation is Wild by Cheryl Strayed. Wild was a great read for me because it opened my mind to an experience so different from my own. Strayed is an impulsive, contemplative, observant, and often funny narrator. If you have not yet read her book, perhaps consider this best selling memoir. Publisher's … Continue reading Wild by Cheryl Strayed, A Reader’s Advisory
Yann Martel's Life of Pi invokes the senses as a visually stunning, gripping and adventurous, dreamlike tale of a boy lost at sea with the strangest of companions. If you want to read a suspenseful survival story that is both harrowing and dazzling, check out Life of Pi. Publisher's Summary: After the sinking of a cargo ship, a … Continue reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel, A Reader’s Advisory
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
If you haven't read The Glass Castle yet, you may want to put it at the top of your reading list. The film adaptation comes out today. Since the book's release and rise to fame in 2005, author, Jeannette Walls refrained from making her memoir into a film until now. If you want to read a vivid … Continue reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, A Reader’s Advisory
The sixth Robert Langdon novel is coming in October! Time to reread The DaVinci Code and brush up on your mystery-solving abilities! While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found … Continue reading Five Star Friday: The DaVinci Code
Loved Emma Watson in Harry Potter? Go see her take on a different role-Belle-in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Everyone knows the story...the beautiful but eccentric daughter of an inventor takes her father's place in a magical castle as prisoner. There she encounters a hideous Beast who terrifies her soul. A beast who was once … Continue reading Beauty and the Beast, A Recommendation from O’Fallon Public Library
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