Between the Pages

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are amazing. They are my favorite short stories and my comfort reading (you all KNOW what I mean). Please read them and enjoy! Comment your favorite story below.  BTP's copy is from Barnes and Noble. Click here  for more information. 

Happy National Novel Writing Month! I cannot believe it is November already. It seems fall has gotten away from me, from all of us. (It was almost 80 degrees where I live today, so it seems the weather is confused as to where autumn has gone too!) Please enjoy the following slides. Comment below if you like the slides as images pasted in posts or as an embedded slideshow for clearer viewing. I hope you like this new format as much as I do. Happy reading!

SUMMARY  Ellingham Academy is a private boarding school in Vermont where the United States' brightest thinkers, inventors, artists, and creators come to play. Founded by one of America's richest, from-the-ground-up benefactors in the early 20th century, Ellingham Academy, while a center of learning and talent, has a storied, infamous, and twisted past. Albert Ellingham's wife, Iris, and daughter, Alice, were kidnapped soon after his school's opening. Neither returned. A taunting riddle was left for Mr. Ellingham written by the assumed criminal who used the pseudonym Truly Devious.  Decades later, Stephanie Bell steps onto Ellingham's campus with one goal: to solve the case, the crime of a lifetime. Much to her parents' chagrin, Stevie spends more time with the crime and real documents and evidence than with her anatomy class subject matter. Along the way, she enlists the help of her housemates: a novelist, Nate, an actor, Hunter, an artist with a French fetish, ...

Friends, I promise a massive review is coming soon, as I am reading a trilogy that I plan to review as a unit. Until then, I'll be here reading and writing mini-posts on holidays I find interesting. I hope you all find them fun too. At least I'm learning something, right?  October 18th through October 24th is National Friends of Libraries Week.  The third week of October promotes groups who support libraries. This week is a great platform for groups who are active in their local library scene to increase awareness in their communities, grow membership, and encourage people to read and get active in their libraries'. Some groups, as you may have seen in your communities, focus on getting youth (especially teens) involved with their library. This, from experience, is no easy task. Their efforts are reasons to celebrate! How can you observe National Friends of Libraries Week?  *safely* (because of the COVID-19 pandemic) Join the teen/youth group at your library Know that YOU...

Happy belated National Dictionary Day! I am going to start posting a mini-post for each of the holidays posted on the Bibliophile's Calendar !       October 16th is nationally recognized as Dictionary Day, which is based on Noah Webster's birthday. Noah Webster, the Father of the American Dictionary, is fittingly recognized with this celebration. He published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language , in 1806. Immediately following its release he began compiling his most cumbersome work: An American Dictionary of the English Language . To do so, he learned 26 languages some being Old-English, German, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Arabic, and Sanskrit. It took him 27 years to compile over seventy thousand words, twelve thousand of which had never been recorded in a dictionary before.       Webster sparked a massive linguistic reform. He found some British spellings unnecessarily complicated; thus, he ...