These are strange and scary times. While we're working from home, library staff are turning for comfort to the written (and recorded) word, and we hope you are as well! Here are a few of the books we've been reading in isolation -- if you're looking for suggestions, consider checking one of them out. See the booklist here.
Allison from the Lower Mills branch reading “There Will Come a Darkness”
Amber from Kirstein Business Library & Innovation Center reading “The Witch of Lime Street”
Ann from the Faneuil branch reading “Year of Wonders”
Catherine from Collaborative Library Services reading “Harry Potter à l’École des Sorciers”
Celia from the Grove Hall branch reading “Red, White & Royal Blue”
Cindy from the Fields Corner branch reading “False Value”
Dani from the South Boston branch reading “Outrun the Moon”
David, President of the BPL, reading “Into the Planet”
Debbie from the Uphams Corner branch reading “The Yellow House”
Dhruti from Web Services reading “The Two Lives of Lydia Bird”
Garrett from the Leventhal Map & Education Center reading “The Plague”
Hope from the Honan-Allston branch reading “The King of Crows”
Jill from Special Events reading “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”
Jordan from Reader Services reading “Eleventh Hour”
Kim from the Fields Corner branch reading “Karamo”
Kirsten from Reader Services reading “Growing Things and Other Stories”
Kurt from Information Technology reading “The Way I Heard It”
Laniesha from the Parker Hill branch reading ” The Worst Best Man”
Liz from the Fields Corner branch reading ” The Splendid and the Vile”
Maija from the Children’s Library reading “An American Sunrise”
Marina from the Central Library reading “The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins”
Marta from Reference & Instruction reading “What’s Bred in the Bone”
Melissa from Collection Development reading “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!”
Michelle from the Leventhal Map & Education Center reading “Becoming”
Patty from the Children’s Library reading “The Perfect Escape”
Rebecca from Research Services reading “Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All”
Sarah from the Brighton branch reading “Sweet Black Waves”
Scot from Web Services reading “The Emerald City of Oz”
Stephen from the Dudley branch reading “Brief Lives”
Veronica from Reader Services reading “Beauty”
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