May  2013 A monthly offering from Drexel Library’s staff about the books we’ve read.  The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick In his latest work, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, James Gleick … Continue reading →

  April  2013 A monthly offering from Drexel Library’s staff about the books we’ve read.  Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman Whether you view Scientology as a con, a cult, or a religion, its … Continue reading →

March 2013 A monthly offering from Drexel Library’s staff about the books we’ve read. A Gift of Hope by Danielle Steel New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel tells her own story in this brief, but heart wrenching book. After … Continue reading →

  February  2013 A monthly offering from Drexel Library’s staff about the books we’ve read.  The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka Julie Otsuka gives us a gift in this small, but very special novel.  Her short lines of … Continue reading →

January 2013 A monthly offering from Drexel Library’s staff about the books we’ve read. Death Comes to Pemberley By P.D. James P.D. James is well known for her crime fiction (“Original Sin”, “An Unsuitable Job for a Woman”) so it … Continue reading →

December 2012 A monthly offering from Drexel Library’s staff about the books we’ve read. Remainder Tom McCarthy To my mind, Remainder is a mystery.  From the start, the narrator /main character is recovering from a mysterious accident involving trauma to … Continue reading →

November 2012 A monthly offering from Drexel Library’s staff about the books we’ve read. Just My Type: A Book about Fonts Simon Garfield We are surrounded by fonts but, until recently, people outside the design community gave them little thought. … Continue reading →

October  2012 A monthly offering from Drexel Library’s staff about the books we’ve read. The World of Downton Abbey Jessica Fellows American television audiences have been captivated for the past two seasons by the upstairs and downstairs lives portrayed in … Continue reading →

September 2012 A monthly offering from Drexel Library’s staff about the books we’ve read. Sunset Park Paul Auster In the first dark months after the 2008 economic collapse, Miles Heller moves to Sunset Park, Brooklyn after his marriage collapses because … Continue reading →

August 2012 A monthly offering from Drexel Library’s staff about the books we’ve read. The Sisters Brothers Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt may be set during the Gold-Rush era, but it’s not your run-of-the-mill Western. Charlie and … Continue reading →