library life

Project Prom: Thinking Outside the YA Library Programming Box

Five years ago a former co-worker and I started a teen program we called a Prom Dress Swap. Like most women in their mid to late twenties, I’d amassed a number of formal dresses from weddings and high school banquets that I never wore anymore. They were in great condition but just hanging in the closet taking up space when I thought “why not create a program out of this at the library?” And Project Prom […]

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Books

Book Review: The Rosie Project

Don Tillman is a brilliant Australian geneticist who has had a successful career as a professor and researcher at the university. But he’s now in his forties, still single and feels like he’s missing something in his life. Don isn’t especially good with people. He suffers from Asperger’s, has some pretty quirky habits and he approaches relationships scientifically and devoid of all emotion. But he’d still like a companion and even though he has some […]

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