Digital Media - View
Starting September 26th! The Teton County Library offers a variety of e-books for adults, teens and children. Access these services 24/7 using a computer and your Library card number and PIN.
Popular Items On Order - View
View items on order from a variety of categories or search for a particular title or author.
Book Reviews - GoodReads.com
38members
- Join Our Group
This is a group for library patrons and staff to review books they've read and share what they are currently reading.
Non-Fiction Reviews: (View All)
- Cowboy: The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
- Author: Alexandra Fuller
- User Rating: 4
- Review: Teton County Library Call No: 622.3382 FULLER
Debbie's rating: 5 stars
My interest in this novel-biography was twofold: I am fascinated by the books of our award winning local author, "Bo" Fuller, and I was curious to see how she would tell the true story of this young Wyoming oil field worker. Her bulls-eye view of the land and skillful way to pull the reader into the soul of Colton, his family and friends, was superb. I was amazed at their strong ties to this dangerous work as well as their devotion to each other. While the fate of Colton's tra...more My interest in this novel-biography was twofold: I am fascinated by the books of our award winning local author, "Bo" Fuller, and I was curious to see how she would tell the true story of this young Wyoming oil field worker. Her bulls-eye view of the land and skillful way to pull the reader into the soul of Colton, his family and friends, was superb. I was amazed at their strong ties to this dangerous work as well as their devotion to each other. While the fate of Colton's tragic death was skillfully foreshadowed, I was still appalled at the petroleum company's insensitivity to human life.
Bo's sensitive writing helped me better understand this subculture, so close to my own stomping grounds and I feel anyone with a heart will be touched by Colton's attitude about life and relationships. As always, Alexandra again proved, whether set in Africa (Let's Not Go to the Dogs Tonight) or Wyoming, she can tell a story hard to forget. 
- Walden & Civil Disobedience
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- User Rating: 4
- Review: Teton County Library Call No: 818 THOREAU
Marisa's Rating: 4 Stars
This book definitely rocked my world in college: The idea of civil disobedience, which of course Thoreau wasn't the first to come up with, was an astounding idea for me. Taking personal responsibility for all your actions - that you agreed to a lot of things you may intellectually disagree with just by NOT taking action against it. I now look at this book as one that started me thinking about change and resistance on an individual and daily basis. Even though I now believe change can be more than an individual movement, but this book really allowed me to think differently. It is also such a definitive American book, that was important understand a lot of American philosophy. -
Fiction Reviews:(View All)
- A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Author: Walter M. Miller Jr.
- User Rating: 4
- Review: TCL Call#: SF Miller W
Madeleine - 4 stars
I don't know. This was a hard book for me to read and I found that I made myself pick it up again and again. But then after I'd read a bit I'd be involved in the story again and enjoying it. But I didn't WANT to read it. So confusing!
I think I didn't want to read about Man's flirtation with death. And I did not want to read about it through a quasi-Catholic lens. But that's where the interesting bits came from. . .
Of course, it also means there are no female characters. When you get to the end there are one or two but they are symbols in the classic Catholic manner.
I gave it 4 stars because despite my shying away from reading it part of me thinks I'll need to read it again sometime in the future (however sick and twisted that might sound). -
- Zone One
- Author: Colson Whitehead
- User Rating: 2
- Review: TCL Call#: FICTION Whitehead
Madeleine - 3 stars
Boy do I love a good zombie book so I was super excited to read this as it had been billed "the thinking man's zombie story." ???? Whatever could that mean? Will the protagonist use physics to calculate the trajectory for the ax to hit the sweet spot in the zombie's skull? Do tell!
Alas, it seems to mean that the author knows how to use big words and lots of adjectives. I'm thinking a good billing for this book would be "Listmania for zombies!" Whitehead fills the pages with endless lists of the banal.
Now, once you know the code and skim every time you hit another recitation you can appreciate the story, which is good. It's just not great. I read it through to the end (once I'd figured out the skimming trick) and was pleased. Not ecstatic like with World War Z by Max Brooks (TCL Call#: FICTION Brooks M) but I mean there's Listmania and then there's the well executed thoroughly engrossing story that happens to include zombies. -
