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“Goblin mode,” the Oxford English Dictionary’s 2022 Word of the Year is defined as “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.” 

This one goes out to everyone whose holidays don't fit the Hallmark-style template that washes across our screens and pa-rum-pum-pum-pums out of every speaker in every store at this time each year.

You don’t have to tell me 2023 is fast approaching, I have so many apps with personalized reviews of books I’ve read or music I’ve listened to. 

We all are trying to make ends meet these days, and during the Holidays that can be even more of a struggle!  So, what could be better than saving money by handcrafting your gifts, and decorations, and cooking home-made delicious dishes!  Everyone enjoys the giving and the recei

The Way of the Curmudgeon: Many are Called, but Few are Chosen

Anybody who’s been reading my blog at all regularly has by now picked up on a certain misanthropy that flows like a sewer line just below the surface, and, for the most part, it’s not an act.

I have read three literary works by three sisters: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë.

Parker Williams Branch Library is celebrating the grand opening of its new Maker Lab on Friday, December 9 at 2:00 PM.

Cheyanne Young is a YA Specialist and author at the LSC-Tomball Community Library who has numerous novels in circulation in the HCPL catalog.

The inspirational series Under Northern Skies by Lauraine Snelling wonderfully commemorates the Thanksgiving holiday.  This four-book set tells the story of the Norwegian family the Carlsons who emigrated from Norway at the beginning of the 20th century.