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Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.

Welcome to RA Crossroads, where books, movies, graphic novels, and other media converge, and whole-collection readers’ advisory service goes where it may. This month, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein provides the starting point for a winding path.

Hope Rises by David Baldacci is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.

The Keeper by Tana French is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.

The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.

Finlay Donovan Crosses the Line by Elle Cosimano is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.

Authors sometimes make plain the various delivery systems of stories in their works. These appear as letters, excerpts, quotes, footnotes, collections of other tales, and much more. When this happens, a lovely sense of the story-ness of reading occurs. Examples spread across the development of fiction, when frame stories such as One Thousand and One Nights unfurled tale after tale within its own storyline or when Laurence Sterne interrupted his romping plot in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman to actually draw it on the page. Here are five more examples.

Judge Stone by James Patterson & Viola Davis is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.