Aly Wepplo recommends Shakespeare: A Day at the Globe on Kanopy streaming video. Recently, I performed in a production of As You Like It with Sun Valley Shakespeare in the Park. To prepare, I watched Shakespeare: A Day at the Globe on Kanopy streaming video. This documentary gives a brief historical look at public theatre in England in Shakespeare’s time and presents an imagined viewing of Julius Caesar performed at the Globe Theatre. Just 29 minutes in length, Shakespeare: A Day at the … [Read more...] about Film Review: Shakespeare: A Day at the Globe
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Book Review: The Book Thief
Communications Manager Kyla Merwin recommends The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. “When Death has a story to tell, you listen.” This is the publisher's first note in their description of The Book Thief. And well said. Every now and then, a book lands in my lap that knocks me right off the couch. A tome that might take me two weeks to read (at 550 pages), The Book Thief instead launched me on a much longer journey—a two-month immersion of exquisite wording and finely wrought … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Book Thief
Book Review: A Moveable Feast
Hemingway in Idaho Research Fellow Riley Bradshaw recommends A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. A Moveable Feast offers more than a look at Hemingway’s time in 1920s Paris. The book becomes a reflection on remembering, shaped by time and distance. Hemingway began writing after rediscovering old notebooks left behind in the Paris Ritz. Published posthumously in 1964, the book was assembled from these fragments and drafts, which adds another layer to its exploration of memory and time. … [Read more...] about Book Review: A Moveable Feast
Book Review: The Living Mountain
Director of Programs and Education Martha Williams recommends The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd. Nan Shepherd (1893-1981) lived for most of her life in the same house in Cults, Scotland, near Aberdeen. She attended and then taught at her local university her entire career, and in her spare time she traversed the nearby Cairngorm Mountains on foot—seemingly every inch of them. A Modernist writer, she depicted her beloved Scottish landscape in novels and poetry, but it was in … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Living Mountain
Book Review: Growing Home
Working in the Children’s Library this past year I have been making more of a point of reading children’s and young adult chapter books. In doing so, it has been easy to remember why I fell in love with reading in the first place. I recently read Growing Home written by Beth Ferry and Illustrated by the Fan Brothers. In this book you meet a variety of characters, such as a grumpy goldfish, two indoor plants, and the Tupper family, which consists of two antiquarians and their daughter … [Read more...] about Book Review: Growing Home
Book Review: An Unfinished Love Story
Director of Library Operations Pam Parker recommends An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Like many Gen X Americans, my knowledge of the political landscape of 1960s is spotty at best. Doris Kearns Goodwin, arguably the foremost living writer on the American presidency, has changed that entirely. Her recently published book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s (2024), dives into the deep end of the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson presidencies, and … [Read more...] about Book Review: An Unfinished Love Story
