Sean Beaudoin

September 9, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Ten Novels that Changed My Life Before I Could Drive by Sean Beaudoin (a guest post)

Karen’s Introduction Oh look, here is Karen meeting Sean Beaudoin Later in September, Banned Books Week happens. Banned Books Week is basically a promotional event to remind us that the freedom to read what we decide to read for ourselves in an important and precious right; a right worthy of being defended. Just last night […]

August 6, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: Wise Young Fool by Sean Beaudoin

“Every thinking person should aspire to be, at some point in their lives, the person who buys someone else their first guitar” – Dedication, Wise Young Fool Wise Young Fool by Sean Beaudoin is a love letter to rock music, the glories (and glorious mess) of the teenage years, and the wisdom that comes in […]

July 11, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

We came, We saw, We stalked: Karen’s ALA Highlights

Last week Heather, Christie and I went to ALA in Chicago. It was epic! Top LtoR: Karen & Christie, author Sharon Biggs Waller, Vordak, author Jonathan Maberry 2nd Row LtoR: author Cory Doctorow, author S. J. Adams and Christie, Free Comic Book Day Panel, Heather Booth reading Rose Under Fire 3rd Row LtoR: author Mindy […]

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April 17, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Because this is one of the best posts ever about aliteracy, and by an amazing friend of mine, we are re-running it today for Reluctant Readers week This post originally appeared on TLT on December 20, 2012 “If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you […]

Book Review: The Infects by Sean Beaudoin

March 6, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Zombrule #4 Survival is for the ruthless. Everyone else is a hippie poet. Stuck in a wilderness camp for juvenile delinquents, our feckless hero Nick, aka Nero, thinks that things couldn’t possibly get worse. But since you shouldn’t tempt fate, they of course do – when everyone starts eating people. That’s right, overnight half of […]

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