MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2012
On Tuesday, May 22nd, a little book is being born called The Downside of Being Charlie. Charlie is a rare gem of a novel because it tells the story of a boy who doesn’t often find himself in teen lit. He is not swoony, he is not a raging bad boy oozing layers of angsty […]
Earlier this year I jumped on Twitter and realized that a revolution was happening; a Relational Reading Revolution. If I was going to get super technical and educatory (not really a word), I would draw you a diagram explaining the relationship using a triangle and the three points of the triangle would be labelled […]
2010 Trends Poster So as you know, the yearly Top 10 Trends is kinda my “thang”. For the 3rd year in a row, I am following trends and getting ready to put together my annual poster. So join us, won’t you, in a little discussion we like to call Trend Watch. Here’s what I am […]
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows […]
Today in the midst of World HG Awareness Day, a friend posted this analogy on her Facebook wall. All day today us HGers have shared our stories, shared facts, and thanked our loved ones and doctors for walking this HG journey with us. But, we have also struggled for words to help those outside understand. […]
As a librarian, when you hear HG you probably think about The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. But for me, HG is a different type of hunger games, a very real one. HG stands for Hyperemesis Gravidarum. It is literally translated as excessive vomiting during pregnancy. Before IVs and PICC lines, women died from HG. […]
Today is World HG Awareness Day. For the month of May I have spent some time sharing my story. Today, a tween tells you hers. No, not her story about having HG, but her story about what it is like to be a child and watch your mothers go through it. What it is like […]
Today is HG World Awareness Day. As you know, I have had HG 3 times. After my first bout of HG, I swore I would never get pregnant again. I had no idea that my first pregnancy would turn out to be me easiest. My second pregnancy almost killed me, and it did kill my […]
You don’t? SHAME! Several months ago, I heard about something called GalleyChat that a website called EarlyWord ran which played out over Twitter. I sat in, learned a ton about all the new adult galleys and what is hot and what was not. Which is great. Except I don’t work in adult services and my […]
I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse. August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school—until now. He’s about to start 5th grade at Beecher Prep, and if you’ve ever been the new kid then you know how hard that […]
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