Book of the Week: Not a book review, but a review of RB Digital, an app for reading magazines
RB Digital app Online magazine reader Available for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire With 60-plus popular magazines to choose from, Concord Publi Library’s electronic magazine service through RB Digital has something for everyone. Some examples include Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Food Network, Highlights, National Geographic, ESPN and Cosmo. The magazines are always available, so no waiting in line, and there is no limit to the number of...
Book review of the week
In between reading The Insider, pick up a book from the Concord Public Library. We won’t mind and promise to love you just the same, if not more! The Private Patient P.D. James 2008, 352 pages Setting: Contemporary England Investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn decides to have cosmetic surgery on a disfiguring facial scar she’s had since childhood. She arrives at the private clinic located in Cheverell Manor in Dorset expecting to...
Book review of the week
If your resolutions are to read more and to save more money, The Concord Public Library can help you keep that resolution. So, go on now . . . check it out! The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why Amanda Ripley 2008, 266 pages Nonfiction Did you know that the human body responds to stress and fear by narrowing your field of vision, heightening your hearing and increasing your heart rate? Investigative reporter...
Book: Norse Mythology
Norse Mythology By Neil Gaiman (mythology, 2017) In Norse Mythology, the inimitable Neil Gaiman once again earns his chops as a master of the fantastical. I listened to the audiobook version, narrated by Gaiman himself, and highly recommend that format for a particularly entertaining experience. Don’t confuse this 2017 release with the 2021-22 two-volume graphic novel adaptation of the same work. I haven’t seen the graphic novels yet...
Book: Invisible Women
Invisible Women By Caroline Criado Perez (411 pages, non-fiction, 2019) Every so often, a book comes along that you wish everyone would read. Invisible Women is one of those books. Are you a woman? Do you live with, work with, communicate with, or — heck — live in a community that includes women? Then this recommendation is for you. Invisible Women is based on the premise that sex- and gender-based discrimination, whether overt or...
