November 2011
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“Don’t become a librarian because you like to read.”
– Caro Pinto, Libarchivist — our third Five Question Friday, up this Friday.
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Prep, by Curtis Sittenfeld
I read this one to take a break from YA and find out what all the fuss was about after reading whatifiwanttobeapurse’s tagline. Let me just say, it was both refreshing and disheartening to turn back to adult fiction after several YA picks in a row.
This is my third boarding school book this fall (after Anna and the French Kiss and The Name of the Star), but it’s totally different....
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“When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can...”
– Annie Dillard, An American Childhood (via thebronzemedal)
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alethiosaur asked: Have you read Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer? It's more apocalyptic than dystopian, but is exciting survivalist YA fiction in the vein of The Hunger Games.
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five question Friday #2: Jane the Circ Assistant
Jane taking a break from the library.
1.) Can you tell us about your current position?
Right now I’m a Circulation Assistant at a public library and am going to grad school to become a school librarian.
2.) How did you get into librarianship?
I’ve always worked and volunteered at libraries. I’ve had a bunch of other jobs too, but the only thing I really liked was working...
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real sentences I have written for pathfinders
Nautica has blossomed from a hustling hood chick to a wealthy wife, but she can’t shake trouble.
Kelley realizes she’s heir to a secret when she meets Sonny, a fairy.
Faith meets football in this family-friendly movie.*
*see how I resisted the temptation to use film instead of movie, thus completely caving to alliteration? Such restraint!
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whatifiwanttobeapurse asked: I'm definitely all for rereading! I also read around 50 books a year, (I'm at 49 right now) and probably 25% of those are books that I've read before. While I love finding new books, I also love rereading all of my favorites because I can read it with a fresh perspective. I read Fahrenheit 451 in the 8th grade and didn't get it at all, and I reread it as a college junior and...
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on rereading
I reread books. I take comfort in a line from a C.S. Lewis essay I read in Oxford, where, in addition to the work for my tutorials, I was rereading Harry Potter in his native land:
“An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.”
I can understand, I guess, someone just not being into a story the second time around when the surprises have been stripped away, but...
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Watchhelenlindsay:
cupcakesandfireworks:
The Hunger Games Official Trailer
Yessss! And I present to you, Happy Monday morning!
yes!!! it’s just how i imagined it!!! so good!!!
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fictional food: hunger games →
For all your Hunger Games movie pregaming.
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five question Friday #1: Shelby the archivist
Shelby takes the Bond girl lead at her grad school archives job.
Can you tell us about your current position?
I’m currently an archivist in a very small archives at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. We’re so small in fact, that I’m currently the only full time person working in the archives for the foreseeable future (yay budget cuts! :/ ) So needless to say, my...
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“Instinctively, Krol also knew what to do. She ran through the library, yelling...”
– Library dramz, or, the courageous tale of a Simmons alumna in the face of a tornado last spring
[from the Simmons InfoLink]
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cataloging homework
…just made me look up Hogwarts, which, according to the Library of Congress Subject Headings, is officially
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Imaginary organization)
“Imaginary organization”? Oh, silly Muggles.
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this week's reading
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: too scary from chapter one. Returned it, unread.
The Name of the Star: just scary enough. The page I allow myself between every 100 shredded documents almost makes all the shredding enjoyable.
And for me, teens, could you please stop favoring such scary books? I’m not going to get any sleep at night. How about some nice Dessen?
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willthethird asked: If you're looking for books like The Hunger Games, I suggest Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (best for high school age, it can get a bit intense and there is a sex scene). I have a thing for post-apocalyptic fiction starring strong female characters, but unfortunately most of my favorites have real adult content (although I love Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne, but it's zombie fic...
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“One of my hands-down favorite things about Herbert—and the list is long—is his...”
– Kate Morton, The Distant Hours.
Diana over at dianareads and I discussed a bit a few weeks ago why I keep reading Kate Morton even though the endings never really satisfy me. A longing for new episodes of Downton Abbey is one reason. And passages like these are another.
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NaNoWriMo tips from Stephanie Perkins (Author of... →
“It’s about creating a first, very very rough draft that you can eventually — with a lot of hard work — turn into a novel.”
[I would like to try NaNoWriMo next year, maybe, once I’m done with grad school. This year, I’m up to my ears in the last throes of library schoolin’.]
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“It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a...”
– Scott Douglas (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
Like, for instance, our library has become a place to get warm and share predictions about when the power will be restored to surrounding communities following our freak Oct. 29 snow storm. Today, I helped three sets of frazzled parents find books for their... 