Did you know Multnomah County Library has a blog? You probably did and I’m late to the game. I honestly don’t use my local library as much as I should. When Neighborhood Notes hooked me up to An Embarrassment of Riches, I was overjoyed, especially since the first post I read turned me on to a great book. I’m a huge fan of post-apocalyptic writing, so when they posted about this topic, I lept and grabbed the first used copy of Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse I could find. I’m about 100 pages in and hooked. I’m not a book reviewer, but I will tell you this – it is about a couple who need to deal with the world after everything they know is taken away. This after everything had already been destroyed. I would never have found this book had it not been for that blog. It is now in my RSS and I already have a few books in my wish list over at the book trading site BookMooch. I have vowed to read more and watch TV less in 2009.
Go check out another city gem in the blogosphere – An Embarrassment of Riches by Multnomah County Library.
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Nice!
The Library actually has two blogs with great reads. An Embarrassment of Riches and News Notes. The first one is about promoting good stuff you can get at the Library, and the second one links to a current events story and then points out some books that relate to it.
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