Tag: Books
Beverly Hills Celebrating Library Week
BEVERLY HILLS—The city of Beverly Hills is celebrating Library Week from Sunday, April 6 through Saturday, April 12.
The city notes that libraries provide hubs...
BHUSD Holding Donation Drive To Help Libraries
BEVERLY HILLS—On Friday, January 17, the city of Beverly Hills announced on its Facebook page that the Beverly Hills Unified School District is spearheading...
Rebel Is Rising!
HOLLYWOOD—Who doesn’t like Rebel Wilson? Her accent is from Australia, and she’s been in the business for a long time. Her first gig was...
“American Fiction” Is Smart, Savvy Fun
HOLLYWOOD—So many people have talked about the smart writing in the dramedy “American Fiction” and I must say it is indeed one of the...
Reading Can Be Highly Beneficial
UNITED STATES—Reading is not as common as what it used to be due to the different media platforms that are available today. In the...
SANTA MONICA READS All Summer 2023 Program
SANTA MONICA—The city of Santa Monica announced in a press release on June 6 that the Santa Monica Public Library is inviting the community...
Higher Education Woes: Undergraduate School Part II
UNITED STATES—I finished my first semester of college, where I think I came home only 3 maybe 4 times the entire semester. Summer was...
The College Hustle
UNITED STATES—Right now, a host of students are getting ready to head back to college or to step onto a college campus for the...
Santa Monica Library To Host Virtual Insect Discovery
SANTA MONICA—On Monday, August 9, the Santa Monica Public Library announced that they will be presenting a virtual Insect Discovery Lab as the final...
Carla Malden’s New Time Travel YA Novel Speaks To All Generations
UNITED STATES—Author Carla Malden will discuss her new YA novel Shine Until Tomorrow, set in San Francisco’s 1967 “Summer of Love,” in a virtual...
Losing The College Experience
UNITED STATES—It seems COVID-19 has claimed another casualty America: the college experience. I don’t know about many of you, but I know with certainty...
“The Magic School Bus” Creator Passes Away
UNITED STATES— Creator of ‘The Magic School Bus’, Joanna Cole, passed away Sunday, July 12.
Cole, who was 75 at the time of her...
“Discovering Griffith Park” Gives Locals Historical Insight
GRIFFITH PARK—Founder and editor-in-chief of ModernHiker.com, Casey Schreiner published his second book, "Discovering Griffith Park: A Local’s Guide" on May 15.
Schreiner has the “most-read...
Study Overload
UNITED STATES—With school being back in session that means one thing: studying is a must. Rather you’re in grade school, middle school, high school,...
Beverly Hills Library Allowing Food To Pay For Fines
BEVERLY HILLS—To celebrate National Library Week and the “Libraries = Strong Communities” campaign, the Beverly Hills Library will accept non-perishable food items in place...
SMPL Comes To The Beach
SANTA MONICA—The Santa Monica Public Library will be hitting the beach this summer for Beach 2017, a series of four seaside pop-up libraries at...
Kaminsky’s Lost Masterpiece
UNITED STATES—Peet Boggs: So Nita stays behind to accompany Benjamin, the refugee with a heart condition?
Jules Kaminsky: The film is about a hopelessly naïve...
Reading Is It All Fun?
UNITED STATES—I’ll be the first to admit that when it comes to reading material in the classroom I easily get bored. It takes a...
Books, Books And More Books People
UNITED STATES—Over the course of my educational career I have read many books, and obtaining an undergraduate degree in the field of English, I’m...
“Sarong Party Girls” A Great Feminist Novel
UNITED STATES—It’s a tale of sexism, status, and capital set in the late night clubs and bars of Singapore. Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s novel “Sarong...
