Calm Your Senses and Reduce Stress
Westlake Porter is full of resources for calming the senses and reducing stress. This information is meant to help you understand the options and resources that are available to you…
Paper, Stamps, and Glue: The Art of Collage
My kitchen table looks like an art-class nightmare. Three teetering stacks of assorted paper pads to my left, a large box full of assorted scraps, buttons, and tissue paper in…
Introducing the Classic Radio Hour!
I am a huge fan of classic radio series. There's something so thrilling about these dramas, which were designed to tell a thrilling story without the aid of a visual…
31 Spine-Tingling Books I Want to Read This Halloween
I love Halloween time! Spooky stories, plastic pumpkins, scary skeletons...I love it all! And every year, I like to stock up on spooky books to help me get into the…
Get Cheesy With These Amazing Pizza Books and Movies
October is National Pizza Month and there is no better way to celebrate it than by picking up a great book or movie about pizza. Pizza is my favorite food…
Nostalgic Showcase Presents: Walter Lantz Productions
Of all the iconic catchphrases or quotes spoken from a cartoon, would you believe me when I said that a particular woodpecker's shrill laugh stands out the most in my…
Popular Mystery Subgenres
One of the most fun parts of my job is offering tips in Reader's Advisory to my coworkers. For those of you unsure what Reader's Advisory is, that's the process…
Health Highlights: the Importance of 988
988 Day September 8 is the 2nd Annual 988 Day. This is a day set aside during Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (also in September) to raise awareness about the National…
Cat’s Picks! 80 Years Since the End of World War II
On this day, September 2, 1945, Japan officially surrendered to the Allied Powers, marking the end of World War II, one of the worst wars in the present history. Lasting…
Sink Your Teeth Into These Short Horror Stories
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” - Charles Addams Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer. Even now the amount…
Stretch Into Yoga This September by Trying and Picking up a Helpful Yoga Book
September is officially the start of National Yoga Month. Yoga is a great mind and body exercise. Research shows the many health benefits associated with it. Yoga isn't just a…
A Brief History of the Pulps
When people ask me my favorite book genres, I generally say adventure stories and classics. But, there’s another genre that instantly springs to mind, but is perhaps a little less…
Staying Spooky with S.E. Schlosser
As we enter into August, something strange starts happening in my head. Namely, I start thinking about Halloween. And yes, I know, it's really early for that sort of thing,…
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Author Spotlight: Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones (bestselling author and CU professor) and his new book "The Buffalo Hunter Hunter." (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer) Stephen Graham Jones is one of the most popular and prolific…
Nostalgic Showcase Presents: The Defunct Attractions of Cedar Point
For the finale of the trilogy of Nostalgic Showcase Presents: The Summer of Gaming articles, I wanted to focus on an amusement park near and dear to families and thrill…
Andrew Lang’s Rainbow Fairy Books
There is nothing quite like settling in with a great collection of fairy tales. My colleague, Jessica, has written at length about the topic, and today, I'd like to throw…
From Page To Scream: The Books That Inspired Your Favorite Classic Horror Films
When I'm not sitting at a desk or writing up booklists for the blogs, I have the pleasure of working as the library's Horror Hostess, sharing classic movies once a…
Up Your Game with These RPG Guides!
The first time I played Dungeons and Dragons (DnD), it was less than exciting. A couple of the guys in my dorm had just started a game in one of…
Holy Horror: Eleanor Bourg Nicholson’s Monster-Slaying Priests
I always love to read about monsters. Not the real, human kind that you find shelved in 364, but the kind with fangs and sometimes fur...vampires, boogeymen, werewolves, Frankensteins, you…
The League of Regrettable Characters
As a kid, I was really, really into comic books. In fact, I loved them so much that I wanted to work for Marvel Comics someday. In the end, I…
How to Have a Happy Art Aesthetic
I don't really consider myself "fashionable," but, I love books that showcase a fun, colorful aesthetic, with bright, quirky accessories, chunky jewelry, beads and baubles and funny little vases made…
Inventors and Inventions That Changed the World
Without inventors, the modern conveniences we take for granted would not be possible. Cars, airplanes, and the computers we read this blog on simply would not exist. Not just these…
STEAM Week: Unsung Innovators- The Often Forgotten Women Who Shaped Our World
If you are reading this on your laptop or cell phone, you have a woman to thank for your wi-fi. Caught in the rain while driving? You have a woman…
STEAM Up Your Kitchen!
Science, technology, engineering, arts, and math - together, they make STEAM. And they also are important skills that you use in cooking. As a kid, I found science and math…