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We (don’t) want the funk! Take 5: Ways to break out of a reading funk in the new year
If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will. I promise. One day, you’ll pick up that next book on your TBR pile, have no idea why it’s there, and 50 pages in realize that you don’t remember the main character’s name and don’t care to figure it out. Then you’ll realize that you can’t [...]
12 Blogs of 2014: Robot Test Kitchen
I can’t tell you how much I love The Robot Test Kitchen. Mainly because I blog there and it would be a little too self-promotion-y for me, but also because the experience of getting that project up and running is one of the best things that’s ever happened to me professionally. So instead I’ll tell [...]
Sunday Reflections: “I Saved Myself”
My two young daughters love fairy tales and princess stories. There’s drama, sparkle, action, and a happy ending. Throw a few fluffy dresses and sparkly scarves their way for easy reenactments at home, and what’s not to love? Of course there are problems with the princess fairy tale trope, but when you’re four and The [...]
Career Conversations, programming for older teens
What do older teens want out of library programing? Communities differ, but in my area, with teens in a highly demanding school loaded with AP courses and ample, high quality after school activity options, the library’s offerings have tough competition for teens’ precious after school time. The strategy here is not to attempt competing with [...]
12 Blogs of 2014: A Chair, A Fireplace, & A Tea Cozy
As Karen, Robin, Amanda, and I were deciding which blogs each of us was going to highlight this year, I looked back over the list from years past and realized that we’d not yet talked about Liz Burns’ broadly useful, always thoughtful A Chair, A Fireplace, & A Tea Cozy. Maybe it’s because we figured [...]
12 Blogs of 2014: R. David Lankes
Truth be told, I’m not an avid blog reader. Since the demise of Google Reader, I’ve not devoted much time to finding a new tool to help me organize and track my blog reading. The blogs I do read belong to those people who I can count on to get me thinking and give me [...]
Take 5: The Robot Test Kitchen’s Reading List
The five of us in the Robot Test Kitchen all came to this project from different comfort levels with technology. Some of us couldn’t get enough of it, some of us were skilled at it, some of us were dragging our heels, and some of us were curious but trepidatious. Some of us were a [...]
Dear Well Meaning Adult, Here’s how to buy books for teens on your list.
Dear Well Meaning Adult, Maybe you’re a relative, maybe you’re a friend, but no matter what, it is so awesome that you want to buy books for teens this holiday season. If you don’t mind, can I give you a few tips about how to buy books that these teens that you so clearly care [...]
YA A to Z: Siobhan Vivian
I read and reviewed Siobhan Vivian’s Same Difference for Booklist the year it was released. I was struck – I still am – by the book’s slow, deliberate unfolding of the story mirroring the unfolding and growth of the main character. I was surprised by the character, just as she was surprised by what she [...]
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