Hey all! It's been a while since my last post because it's been busy in the teen room. My schedule has changed for the last few weeks since we were trying to find a new - aide for the teen room. Well, we did interviews and found one! Hopefully now the teen room can get back to … Continue reading Lady lists
Category: Books
Reading more widely in 2015
Last week I was looking at my friend Jenny's 2014 Reading Wrap-up and not only was I impressed with her graphs, I realized a terrible fact: I think most of the books I read last year were by white people. Like definitely most of them. Probably about half of them were ladies (I did count this … Continue reading Reading more widely in 2015
2014: pretty great!
It's a day past Beethoven's birthday and you know what that means. Ok, I don't know what it means either... I guess it means it's time for my 2014 wrap up post! I looked back at my 2013 wrap-up, and it was a bit of a downer. Sorry. 2013 was not my best year. Though as … Continue reading 2014: pretty great!
Another note from Austin: living your life is not “too much”
I have another story from Austin I can't believe I forgot to write about it last week. I really should be at the grocery store right now because I forgot to get basil for the pizza I'm making (I cook Tuesday mornings because I work Tuesday nights) but I hate the grocery shopping. Anyway, at the … Continue reading Another note from Austin: living your life is not “too much”
High vs. low, adult vs. teen? Just read, folks.
[I've had two draft posts sitting around for a week or so without finishing them. Here's one. The next one is about adult library programming!] Apparently, there's another article about how books for kids/books for teens/trashy books/comics/not "literary fiction/not the classics/not the books the writer likes to read are bad for you and you shouldn't … Continue reading High vs. low, adult vs. teen? Just read, folks.
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