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I just read (in a couple of hours, if that) Lenore Look’s Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things. And I loved it. I know, I know, whether or not I loved it is not relevant, but I just wanted to point it out. It’s another "funny book" and it’s slight, a […]
"Thanksgiving" is roughly when Sharon and I try to have our final list of 8 or 9 titles pinned down…giving participants in our January discussion a good six weeks to read them all. We’ve announced our first five, and have some ideas about what the last few will be–but we still want to hear from […]
Sharon gave a brief overview of how we organize our Mock Newbery, and I talked more about choosing titles. We’re now at the stage of shaking out the end of our shortlist, and I’m officially consigning some of my favorite titles of the year to the "UnMockable" shelf. These include: The Astonishing Life of Octavian […]
In my random blog readings, I came across an intersting site I wanted to share with you all. Called The Newbery Project, this is a group blog that anyone can join. Members read Newbery winners (whichever ones they’d like) and post about their thoughts on them. These readers are not necessarily looking at the books […]
In 1953, the Newbery Committee chose a Newbery winner and five honor books. The winner? Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark. The honor books? * Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White * Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw * Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil * The Bears […]
Anyone who thinks you can’t tell autumn in California just isn’t sensitive enough. This weekend was beautiful: blazing permission leaves flinging themselves and baring their fruit to the squirrels, National election euphoria tinged with local election catastrophes, "Christmas Trees Coming Soon" banners unfurling over fading "Condos Coming Soon" signs on empty lots…and the New York […]
Louise Erdrich’s The Porcupine Year received multiple starred reviews and showed up on a bunch of blogs when it was released in September (including Debbie Reese‘s and Fuse#8’s). And if you take a look at it on Goodreads, you see that fairrosa calls it "one of the better books of the year" and Monica‘s tagged […]
Did everyone know about this but me? (Just new to Goodreads…which is not so scary for the socially-networked-challenged like me.) Hm. Sharon did cause I see she voted. I added a link to the award criteria in the description line so that people can actually find out what they’re voting for.
On the eve of Election Day, while we all wait anxiously for the results of not only a presidential election, but important state and local elections, I thought I would give you a small amount of relief from all this anticipation. I know it may not be as important as Obama vs McCain, but haven’t […]
Halloween is turning out a little hairy in the City of Oakland. It’s layoff notice day. (Neither of yours’ truly affected, directly.) And then there’s this zombie librarian in the stacks, trying to stamp "discard" on The Story of Mankind.
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