I know that at someone point I’ve mentioned that we have a patron that loves to sign the Library up for magazine subscriptions with false names. Really random, nonsense names for all sorts of magazines. As a result, we receive multiple issues of Good Housekeeping, Shape, Runner’s World, and the like for “Harry Hogwartson” andContinue reading “That’s not my name”
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Summer, Commence
(Picture from my meeting yesterday at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. It’s just down the road from where I work and the campus was so beautiful and lush at dusk.) listening :: Megadeth – Week #2 of Metal May watching :: Jesse Owens by PBS — since I read The Book Thief over spring break, I haven’t stoppedContinue reading “Summer, Commence”
Eleanor & Park
This book took the young adult/library reader’s advisory world by storm this past winter. All the librarians and bloggers out there were reading. Being at the point of midterms when it was most popular, I thought I could write off Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park until the summer. But John Green’s review in The NewContinue reading “Eleanor & Park”
2013 Eisner Nominees
The nominees for the 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced a few weeks ago, and I’ve been mediating about the nominees and hopefuls. I don’t follow the industry closely enough to know if there were any upsets or snubs, but I was pleased to see some familiar works on the list. We won’tContinue reading “2013 Eisner Nominees”
Free Comic Book Day 2013
“Valerie, get her signed-up for the email list NOW!” – the owner/cashier as I was checking out, in regards to me being the only female participating in FCBD upon my own free will and not for my son/father/boyfriend/husband. The first Saturday in May has been a scared day for as long as I can rememberContinue reading “Free Comic Book Day 2013”
Dirty Girl
“Nobody likes a dirty girl” I was apprehensive about this movie. I wasn’t familiar with Juno Temple from anything else, and I wasn’t intrigued by the plot of “high school harlot and gay classmate (Jeremy Dozier) team-up to learn some life lessons with a Home Economics flour sack baby” frame in 1987 Oklahoma. Still, the movieContinue reading “Dirty Girl”
Summer Reading 2013
Books I want to read (or finish reading…) this summer: – Vampires in the Lemon Grove – Karen Russell – A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin – The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman – The Night Circus – Erin Morgentsten – The Interestings – Meg Wolitzer – THE MARRIAGE PLOT – Jeffrey Eugenides (IHATEEVERYTHING;ESPECIALLYTHISBOOK) – Reading Lolita in Tehran* –Continue reading “Summer Reading 2013”
Hello, May
(source click through) listening :: A lot of Mastodon in honor of Metal May and The Splendid Table (Which I have fond memories of listening to on my way to into the theatre on Sunday mornings last summer) watching :: Parks and Recreation – WHY DO YOU END THE SEASON LIKE THAT, and the libraryContinue reading “Hello, May”
30/30 Poetry Challenge
Several of my friends participated in a challenge where they wrote a poem a day for the duration of April. Jared and Tiffany did great! Some of their gems: Bearded Ballads 28/30: Crosswalk Morning fog yet to have burned off, but here comes the sun. Head swims through the thickness as I’m hailed name calledContinue reading “30/30 Poetry Challenge”
Cassidy B. Charles 