
January 11, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I recently watched a fascinating discussion about Sherlock Holmes on PBS called How Sherlock Changed the World. One of the interesting revelations the special maintains is that as the original Sherlock stories were being written they were in fact SCIENCE FICTION in that Doyle posited doing things with science to investigate and solve crimes that […]
December 10, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I don’t always do everything John Green recommends in one of his Vlogbrothers videos…but I do always consider it. One day, almost in passing, he mentioned that his college friend Ransom Riggs was having a book published. And that he thought it was quite good. Good enough, in fact, that he had blurbed it. That […]
December 9, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS
One of my most anticipated titles for 2014 is Hollow City by Ransom Riggs. This is the follow-up book to Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. If you have not yet read it, I highly recommend it. Take a look at it’s spectacularly cool trailer. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fc1FLa9rvA?rel=0] As part of Quirk Books Week, Quirk Books […]
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December 9, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS
This post originally ran way back in 2011, when I first started TLT. I am rerunning it today as part of Quirk Books Week. And because I still love this book and you should read it if you haven’t. Even if you have, read it again because the sequel, Hollow City, comes out in January […]
December 3, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Oh, January. New year, snow, hot chocolate, and NEW BOOKS!!!!!! Haley and her father Andy have been on the road for the past five years, always moving, avoiding the demons from her dad’s PTSD. They’ve finally returned to Hayley’s hometown, but will that make things better or worse, and will Hayley finally be able […]
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