Marta  Wiggins

On Sunday, as I walked through the Japanese Garden at Descanso, I heard several crows calling back and forth, what a racket. I looked up...

Last night at book club we discussed Isabel Allende’s In the Midst of Winter. The basic premise of the book is that a chance car...

It took me several months before I put my name on the wait list for a copy of National Book Award Finalist title Pachinko by Min Jin Lee....

On Facebook today, a friend shared a photo post asking Who else loves fried green tomatoes? Share if you do. This reminded me of this...

Books and the ideas within can transform a person and shape thoughts as well as transform others through the way a life is lived. What...

Do you know a transgender person? Do you know that you know a transgender person? Chances are you do, whether you know it or not. Many...

​ ​Today, I started The Sleepwalker by Chris Bojalian. It is on the list of potential books to discuss at the book club in 2018. Since I...

In this divisive time, I have deep worries for the future. Can we untangle ourselves from our partisan divides with our historical...

In November, the La Crescenta Library Book Club discussed The Dream Lover , Elizabeth Berg's historical novel on the life of George Sand....

This year, I have spent time looking at my life and evaluating what I have learned and know about myself. Perhaps it is a mid-life...

Last fall when I began my search for possible books to add to the 2016 survey that the Book Club members at my library vote on, Karen...

When I was seventeen, I wanted nothing more than to find adventure in the wide world. Decades later, I know that if I visited my younger...

One of the things about being a Librarian is that we talk a lot about books. About a year ago, I met a couple of customers outside of...

Over the years, I have hosted three different book clubs. After I had become a library manager and moved from children's services to...

My friend and mentor sent me this article: As libraries become cultural hubs, TEDx events bring the community in. I have considered...

For about a year I had the intention to read Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the...