Friday Finds – August 30, 2013

This week at TLT:

Our Sunday Reflection was an ode to Twitter (and what it can do for you professionally.)

Read Karen’s defense of electronic gaming in the library – it’s important!

And Christie’s follow-up on the benefits of low-tech gaming.

We have book reviews:

• Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

• W.A.R.P. the Reluctant Assassin (audio) by Eoin Colfer

• If I Ever Get Out of Here Alive by Eric Gansworth

• Twerp by Mark Goldblatt 

• The 100 (The Hundred Book #1) by Kass Morgan

Christie gives us the low down on the movie adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones.

We posted our 1000th post this week – on Sex in the Library, Things I Never Learned in Library School.

This week’s Take 5 gathers together a list of books on a difficult topic, sexual violence in the lives of teens.

Previously at TLT:

For more on gaming, read our post on International Games Day.

Around the web:

We got a look at more of the movie based on Divergent by Veronica Roth. And then the official trailer came out !

Make Magazine posted an interesting guide for librarians on boosting the maker movement.

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries won a Creative Arts Emmy for digital media programming. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Start here. And never wonder again if the classics can be relevant to today’s teens.

VOYA Magazine announced it was the winner of the 2014 St. Katherine Drexel Award from the Catholic Library Association.  Also, we learned that there is a Catholic Library Association.

Ypulse discusses the truth about teen exhaustion with the supernatural movie market.  What does the future hold for YA novel adaptations?  Despite lagging box office receipts, the sequel to the City of Bones, City of Ashes, is still being developed into a movie and Sigourney Weaver has joined the cast.

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