Dark Souls is a 2011 video game developed by FromSoftware, a Japanese studio, that has been hugely influential since its release, even inspiring a subgenre of action roleplaying games known as...
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Halloween horror reads
Halloween is coming up and I thought I’d share some of the best horror novels I’ve read this year. Most are recent releases but some, like The Luminous Dead, are a bit older. The connecting threads...
Gaming Together
Perhaps unsurprisingly for someone who chose to work in libraries, I am very shy, and sometimes I have trouble making friends. When I first moved to Northwest Arkansas back in 2018, it took me...
Movie review: Drive My Car
Drive My Car is a 2021 film by Ryusuke Hamaguchi that adapts a Haruki Murakami story of the same name from his 2014 collection Men without Women. The plot is deceptively simple—Kafuku, a director...
Oceans of Possibilities: Comics Recommendations
If you’ve been keeping up with the library, you know that our summer reading theme this year is “Oceans of Possibilities.” To tie in with this theme, we’ve selected some comics and manga from our...
Summer Reading Recommendation – The Runaway Princess
The middle-grade reader The Runaway Princess by Kate Coombs is actually old-ish (2006), but I stumbled across it recently when trying to find information about a new book with the same title by...