books

Catherine and Melvin Duren from Tecumseh were arraigned in court last Thursday and fined more than $200 for larceny of rental equipment...regarding library books.

The new book is called "Grey" and will be told from the perspective of Christian Grey.

It's an honor that is usually reserved for musicians and actors....you know, pop icons. This month "Rolling Stone" magazine has decided to feature Boston bombing suspect Jahar Tsarnaev on its' coveted cover. Public opinion has not been positive!

The "Fifty Shades Of Grey" trilogy made readers out of people who wouldn't normally pick up a book, and there is no doubt that people will flock to theaters to see the movie adaptation. To that end, we now have a release date for the movie, but what about the cast? Who will play Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele? Details here.

It's very easy to over indulge in Flint bashing these days, but it takes real effort to portray our struggling city and the Flintoids that refuse to budge with humor and sensitivity. That's exactly what Gordon Young, Flint native turned author, manages to do in his new book 'Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City.' Gordon Young was interviewed recently on Mornings With Rod & Steph. Get details a

Today's reading experience is nothing like the literal "page-turners" of yesteryear. But even with the e-Book, the Kindle and the iPad at our fingertips, we can still spot a wacky romance novel cover from a mile off.

We all have our passions, and sometimes those passions just take over our lives and cause us to do extraordinary things. Such is the case to a gentleman in Japan. It is the story of a 61-year-old man who Japanese police say stole nearly 1,100 library books to satisfy what appears to be a case of kleptomania combined with an intense passion for books.

I had 90 minutes to kill between meetings at work today, so I headed downtown to the Flint Public Library hoping to find something from Ernest Hemingway (one of my favorite authors).  I was disappointed, as were several others who had come to the library only to find the doors locked.

If you have books that you have already enjoyed that others might like as well, the Friends of the Flint Public Library invite you to donate them.

A lot of people think that farmers' markets are only open when it's harvest season.  That might be true for some markets, but not the Flint Farmers' Market.  Open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays all year long -