Read: Watch: Listen
Read | Watch | Listen
Find something to read, watch or listen to from these electronic resources and outside websites.
Bibliocommons — McHenry Public Library Catalog. Use the advanced search to find specific titles, authors, or formats.
eBooks — an explanation of how to download eBooks from Overdrive for various devices.
Read
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NoveList — A comprehensive reading resource for fiction and nonfiction for adult readers.
Find author readalikes or search for your next read by author, title, series, or use the advanced search.
New Fiction
Websites
KDL What's Next — find the next book in the series you are reading. From the Kent District Library.
Locus Online for Fantasy and Sci Fi — home of the website of the Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field.
New Fantasy
New Science Fiction
Mystery Kirkus Book Reviews— Kirkus is one of the major pre-publication review sources within the literary and film industries.
New Mysteries
New York Times Best Sellers — Find book news, reviews and best-seller lists.
New Non-Fiction
New Romance
Salon — book reviews, essays on the ideas and controversies current in the literary world, and interviews with today's writers.
Voices of Vision Talking Book Center — is part of a statewide and national network of libraries that provide the talking book and braille service. The service is administered locally by the DuPage Library System.
Watch
Hulu — Hulu.com is an online video service that offers current and classic TV shows.
Metacritic — movies, games, music and TV reviews.
The Playlist —
guide to contemporary cinema via film news, reviews, movie music, soundtracks, DVDs and more.
Listen
8tracks — Listen to handcrafted internet radio. Share your own mix online.
Billboard — music and video reviews.
Classical net — reviews, articles, timelines.
Classics Today — review guide to classical music.
The Daily Swarm — Aggregated music news headlines. Also features videos and directory of music news sources.
Sound Opinions — buy it, burn it, trash it — Jim & Greg's Reviews from Chicago Public Radio.
Poetry
Contemporary Poetry Review Magazine — a journal devoted exclusively to poetry criticism.
Poetry Foundation — reviews, articles, best-seller lists, and an advanced search tool.
Raintaxi — interviews, poetry, fiction and young adult fiction reviews.
Ron Silliman's Blog — poetry, graphic novel, fiction, non-fiction, and young adult fiction reviews.
World Class Poetry — poetry, poetry chapbook, and poetry literary criticism.
Book Clubs/Book Discussion Groups
Dear Reader — DearReader.com is an online book club specifically for MPLD patrons.
Book Clubs — As a service to Book Clubs, we have created a
set of Book Club Kits for patrons to check out. Search our catalog using the search term "book
club kit" to see the list of titles. The kits contain 10 paperback
copies of the book, a resource guide for starting a Book Club,
information on the specific title as well as a set of discussion
questions.
History Book Discussion Group — Meets at 7:30 p.m. the first Thursday of each month at the library. For dates and titles, click here.
Contemporary Book Discussion Group — Meets at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month at the library. For dates and titles, click here.
Classic Literature Book Discussion Group — Meets at 7 p.m. the third Monday of each month at the library. For dates and titles, click here.
Writers' Group — The writer's group is a group of peers getting together to discuss the craft of writing, share their writing with each other, and help each other to become better writers. Please bring six copies of your writing to share. Meets at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Monday of each month at the library. For dates, click here.
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