Three is… a crowd? Company? The magic number? Hell, it’s a lot of things and I’m going to add one more to the three ingredient pot: book recommendations. The NY Times can have their 100 and Buzzfeed can stick to 22 – my brain isn’t big enough to handle much more than three of anything …
Fern Ridge Public Library Director Colin Rea sent us this shot showing off the “sweet shirt” he won in our recent Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving giveaway, and the book’s publisher, Algonquin Books, had a little something to show off this morning, too. Two new Jonathan Evison sites have gone live just two weeks prior to …
Colin Rea, one of our favorite local librarians, wrote in today that, for the third time in his two years at the Fern Ridge Library, someone has left a cat at its drop box. “I’d like to lock Vicki Myron in a room with all the cats that have been left at libraries since Dewey …
Colin Rea has three kids and he runs a district library, so he knows a thing or two about the circus life. The Director of the Fern Ridge Public Library, in Veneta, west of Eugene, also has a commendable knack for thematic literature grouping. One highly anticipated book, you’ll have to wait just a few …
Our friend Colin Rea wrote a funny, opinionated, somewhat snarky ‘Dear Publisher’ letter a few years back when he was the buyer at the University of Oregon Duck Store. He revised the letter recently to suit his new position as director of the Fern Ridge Public Library. One of our favorite parts is: “Please, for …
