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Delightfully unsettling, Lovecraftian adventure

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

February 17, 2021 by msvreadsbooks 1 Comment

What a journey this book was… This year, I’m trying to branch out and read in different genres and modes, and this book is definitely something that I wouldn’t have picked up before.  The Hollow Places follows Kara (sometimes called Carrot) who moves in with her uncle to help him run his Museum of Wonders after her divorce. It’s a convenient arrangement for each of them as Kara avoids moving in with her mother – whom she loves, but wouldn’t love living with – and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: adventure, hollow places, horror, Lovecraft, lovecraftian, museum, otherworld, t kingfisher, wonders

msvreadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: adventure, hollow places, horror, Lovecraft, lovecraftian, museum, otherworld, t kingfisher, wonders ·
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The start of a new creepy series

Relic (Pendergast #1) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

February 3, 2021 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

The idea of this book is just so fantastical.  There’s a beast killing people in the Museum of Natural History in NYC.  Like come on.  But it totally works (at least for me)!  I read this book because I love Douglas Preston.  He made me scared of bats in the wild and bleeding through my eyes (reasonable fears I think). This is apparently the debut novel for the Pendergast series.  I had no idea it existed, but I’m so glad I found it.  I have […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Douglas Preston, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Lincoln Child, murder, museum, Pendergast

kfishgirl's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Douglas Preston, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Lincoln Child, murder, museum, Pendergast ·
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Disaster Planning By the Book

Building an Emergency Plan: A Guide for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions by Valerie Dorge

June 27, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

This is a book I read specifically because of our current pandemic. In my job I am responsible for much of the physical care of our historic collections and buildings and the response to COVID-19 is just as much an emergency/disaster response as any of the other things that make their ways into our plans. As I make updates to our Emergency Procedures and our Collections Care Policy and Procedures to reflect long term closures as well as reviewing our Disaster Plans, I began reading […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Cultural Institutions, Disaster Planning, Emergency Planning, faintingviolet, GLAMS, museum, Valerie Dorge

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:31 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Cultural Institutions, Disaster Planning, Emergency Planning, faintingviolet, GLAMS, museum, Valerie Dorge ·
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The museum adventure I always wanted as a child (bonus review from Ysakitty)

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

June 23, 2019 by Dome'Loki 3 Comments

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler was a favorite book of mine as a child.  But as I grew older I slowly forgot about the message of the story and only remembered the adventure.  When I saw that it could be ordered for only a dollar as part of a larger Scholastic book order, I knew I had to get it for my 11 year old.  It was delightful to find that she was as enchanted with the story as I was. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cbr11, Children's, Dome'Loki, E.L. Konigsburg, Fiction, Michelangelo, museum, Newbury winner

Dome'Loki's CBR11 Review No:17 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cbr11, Children's, Dome'Loki, E.L. Konigsburg, Fiction, Michelangelo, museum, Newbury winner ·
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I have no idea what I’m doing

Exhibition Design by Philip Hughes

February 11, 2019 by tillie 4 Comments

Say you get a new job, one that’s your dream, but also that you’re grossly under-qualified for. You have limited experience, it requires you move to a different country and you basically have a month to do it. What would you do? Buy a book? Well, congratulations you’re 100% like me. Also you will buy this particular book because you liked the cover. #GoodChoices. This book is not the bible of exhibition design it’s a low-stakes introduction, a sort of ‘which-one-where-does-what’ of exhibition design. I […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: architecture, cbr11, Design, exhibition design, museum, non fiction, philip hughes, tilliereads

tillie's CBR11 Review No:6 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: architecture, cbr11, Design, exhibition design, museum, non fiction, philip hughes, tilliereads ·
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