BEST OF 2020: Graphic Novels & Middle Grade Books
2020. One of the many lessons that this year has taught me is the necessity of creating safe and peaceful spaces, where my mind can rest. In my safe spaces, … Read More
2020. One of the many lessons that this year has taught me is the necessity of creating safe and peaceful spaces, where my mind can rest. In my safe spaces, … Read More
To celebrate NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and our teens love of writing, the Teen Advisory Board at the Homewood Public Library developed the 500 Words or Less Contest. This … Read More
“The originality of George MacDonald has also a historical significance, which perhaps can best be estimated by comparing him with his great countryman Carlyle. It is a measure of the very real power and even popularity of Puritanism in Scotland that Carlyle never lost the Puritan mood even when he lost the whole of the Puritan theology. If an escape from the bias of environment be the test of originality, Carlyle never completely escaped, and George MacDonald did. He evolved out of his own mystical meditations a complete alternative theology leading to a completely contrary mood. And in those mystical meditations he learned secrets far beyond the mere extension of Puritan indignation to ethics and politics.” (Chesterton)
“When a man of Voltaire’s school has to explode a saint or a great religious hero, he says that such a person is a common human fool, or a common human fraud. But when a man like Anatole France has to explode a saint, he explains a saint as somebody belonging to his particular fussy little literary set.” (Chesterton)
SUMMER READING HAS OFFICIALLY STARTED! (*begins to dance*) The theme for Summer Reading is “Imagine Your Story”, and we’re so excited to share with you some of our favorite fairy … Read More