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Baby, You Can Drive My Car (and listen to my book)
Let me be the umpteenth person to tell you that I’m so over this winter already. I mean, I am done. Pittsburgh’s daily dose of snow-slush-slop atop Arctic Circle temperatures colder than my freezer...
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What I Love
Dear Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Perhaps it is a little early in our relationship to tell you this (you’ll recall that tomorrow marks our four month anniversary together), so forgive me if I’m...
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Thoughts on The Things They Carried
Earlier this week, my colleague Holly wrote about how we’re going big with the Big Read. I’m excited about these upcoming events here at the Library and especially about Tim O’Brien’s The Things They...
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One Book One Community: Colum McCann’s Gift to Pittsburgh and the World
Colum McCann, March 10, 2014 photo credit: Renee Rosensteel, renee@rosensteel.com event photos generously provided by Renee Rosensteel and Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Colum McCann had us at hello....
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The Books We Turned To When Our World Stopped Turning
We left the developmental pediatrician’s office holding two things: A diagnosis (“your son has clinical features of autism spectrum disorder“) and a practically translucent handout photocopied so many...
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Perspective, As Seen from a Corner of the Library
It’s a Sunday afternoon and I’m writing this from an undisclosed nook of CLP-Main. It’s a spectacularly gorgeous (and busy) weekend in Oakland; across the street, a few thousand (give or take)...
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Helping Hands in CLP-Sheraden’s Garden
I’m not a gardener. Not even close. Oh, I pretend to be. Every spring, just when we start getting a few 70 degree days, I check out some gardening books from the library. I have fantasies of growing a...
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Pride Week @ CLP: The Stories That Won’t Let Go
There’s a story that won’t let go of me. Some days, this book takes the form of a novel. On other days, it has flirted with being a collection of linked short stories and at times, it feels like it...
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Who Needs Reality Shows When You Have eCLP?
So there we were, enjoying a glorious vacation week at my aunt and uncle’s beach house, and my 12 year old twins were watching the latest episode of America’s Singing Horribly with People Who Don’t...
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Summer Readin’, Had Me a Blast
Is it me, or didn’t we just kick off the 2014 Summer Reading program at Extravaganza like, five minutes ago? (Insert your favorite cliché here about summer going faster every year.) I was one of those...
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Words, Glorious Words
Over the weekend, our friends at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that the Oxford Dictionaries Online added some new words to its listings. More than 400 of them, give or take a few. I always...
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I’m Bookin’ It
image courtesy of The Man Booker Prize, via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ManBookerPrize) For whatever reason, I’m kind of obsessed with The Man Booker Prize for Fiction this year. (Maaaaayyyyyybe...
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A Teen Space of Their Own
Pictured in late-September 2014, the new Teen space at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – East Liberty is seen undergoing the final construction and installation phases. Made possible through the...
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And the winner is …
“I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the...
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Andrew Carnegie’s Favorite Day
I can’t speak for the guy, but I’m pretty sure that if he were still around, today would be one of Andrew Carnegie‘s favorite days of the year. This whole idea of #GivingTuesday? I think he would have...
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Yet Another Best Of List
Because of a technical glitch, my selections for favorite books read in 2014 didn’t quite make it into the annual Stuff We Like edition of Eleventh Stack. This just means now I get to tell you all...
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2015 Reading Resolutions: Onward and Upward!
With another year of books under our belts, it’s time to look ahead. To bring the blogging year to a close, some Eleventh Stackers have chosen to share their reading resolutions for 2015. There’s...
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Drood Food
I have this thing about food in books. I don’t even know if I can adequately describe it; I just love when characters are eating bizarre (to me) food. I’m not sure why this is, but if yesterday’s...
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What to Read and Watch While Awaiting Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman
Every so often, a moment occurs in the literary world that is so remarkable and so unexpected that one wonders if this isn’t the stuff of fiction. I’m talking, of course, about last week’s news that a...
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History Matters with Author Steve Berry
Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of ten Cotton Malone adventures, four stand-alone thrillers and four short-story originals. Photo credit: Kelly Campbell...
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