Read A Book This Month
This month The Lenore Blog is featuring a few of our favorite books for you to enjoy. We are also highlighting the local library system. We hope that you get the chance to head out of your Baltimore, MD apartment this month to check out a book at your local library!
The Baltimore County Library system is a great place to find and check out books. One of our favorite features of the Baltimore County Public Library is their digital library. Don’t have time to check out a book in person? Read your books and magazines online. Their digital library also allows you to listen to audiobooks and watch digital movies anywhere and everywhere. You can find more about the materials you can check out from the digital library online. You can find more about different branches of the library, checking out books, and library services on the library’s official website.
We would be remiss without mentioning that one of our favorite authors, Edgar Allan Poe, lived and was buried in Baltimore, MD. You can learn more about Edgar Allan Poe’s life in Baltimore by visiting the Poe Baltimore website. Take the chance to visit the Edgar Allen Poe House Museum this month. This national landmark is a wonderful place to spend an afternoon here in Baltimore, MD. The website says, “Exhibits tell the story of Edgar Allan Poe’s life and death in Baltimore and significant artifacts such as Edgar’s portable writing desk and chair, and a telescope, china and glassware used by Edgar when living with the Allan family in Richmond, Virginia.”
We have two book recommendations for you this month:
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
“In Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems fans may indulge in all of Poe's most imaginative short-stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia and Ms. In a Bottle. His complete early and miscellaneous poetic masterpieces are here also, including The Raven, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, Tamerlane, as well as select reviews and narratives.”
“George Eliot’s novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The proposed Reform Bill promises political change; the building of railroads alters both the physical and cultural landscape; new scientific approaches to medicine incite public division; and scandal lurks behind respectability. The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the complexly portrayed central characters of the novel—the idealistic Dorothea Brooke; the ambitious Dr. Lydgate; the spendthrift Fred Vincy; and the steadfast Mary Garth. The appearance of two outsiders further disrupts the town’s equilibrium—Will Ladislaw, the spirited nephew of Dorothea’s husband, the Rev. Edward Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose the hidden past of one of the town’s elite. Middlemarch displays George Eliot’s clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge.”
Do you have any book recommendations for us? Leave a book review in the comments. Thanks for reading our post!