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What We're Reading: August 2016

August 6, 2016 | madame librarian

Lots of fun reads, but if you have time for only one read make it Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, a balanced report on our growing reliance on the internet with a brief history of reading, books, and libraries.

The vinyl detective : written in dead wax by Andrew Cartmel
Murder on the bucket list by Elizabeth Perona
Prime suspect. Volume 1 [videodisc]
Also available in: e-audiobook

When a young woman is found brutally murdered, and the DCI in charge is unable to take up the case, the role is passed on to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, the first female DCI to handle such a responsibility. Between a slippery suspect and resistence from her team of detectives, Tennison has her hands full.

Fastpitch : the untold history of softball and the women who made the game by Erica Westly
The shallows : what the Internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas G. Carr
Also available in: audiobook | e-audiobook

Discusses the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Internet, and how it may be transforming our neural pathways for the worse.