MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2012
All this week we have been talking about Banned Books Week. There are lots of good guides out there to tell you how to prepare a policy, handle a challenge, etc. But what we don’t often talk about are the dirty little library secrets. Sometimes, the challenges come from our co-workers. Sometimes, they come from […]
Book banning doesn’t happen as often as you think it does. Mostly what we face are book challenges. This is the notion that someone challenges the acceptedness (acceptedability?) um, the appropriateness of a book. It often happens by outside forces, like parents and concerned citizens, but, as we discussed yesterday, it can also happen from […]
Being the “Slayer” Every Other Day: Book Review of Every Other Day by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Book Reviews, Every Other Day, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Sunnydale Project
|“If I had a nickel for every time I almost died, I would have been driving to school in a Ferrari and flying off to Bora-Bora on the weekends.” You all are seriously in trouble with me. All those times I said, “What books should a Buffy fan read?” and not once did you say […]
The Congo is a dangerous place, even for those that are trying to do good. I learned about Endangered by Eliot Schrefer on Saturday at the Austin Teen Book Festival (it’s good, you should go). He was part of a panel of authors talking about thrillers, which Endangered definitely is. But it is also a […]
I never liked it when Technical Services called down to my office because it usually meant I had done something wrong: ordered a duplicate, maybe ordered book 2 when we didn’t have book 1, or a book came in covered in green astro turf (that really happened once). But no, this time it was a staff […]
I come from a small town, and from very liberal parents. I don’t remember any checks on what I was reading, never once being told I couldn’t read anything or having to sneak books into my room. Well, except for the copies of Julie Garwood’s historical romances that were my mom’s, but that was more […]
Top 10: For Annie and Liza
Booklists, GLBTQ, GLBTQ Fiction, Reader's Advisory, Teen Issues, Top 10s
|I love Annie on My Mind. I personally think it should be a book choice for those in schools, not a forced book, but a reading choice for those reading classes where you have to choose one of five books on relationships and write about themes, and what did you learn from these books. Yes, […]
Through to You by Emily Hainsworth is described as “a romantic sci-fi thriller full of unexpected twists” When we first meet Camden Pike, he is barely functioning as his world is now empty having lost the one person, Viv, that meant everything to him. Two months ago they wrapped their car around a pole and […]
Once upon a time I read and reviewed a book called Pretty Amy. I liked it and made it the TLT Rec of the Week. I thought, you know, this really speaks to the heart of what teenage girls feel. I also thought, I wish I had known to get a bird and teach it […]
ADVERTISEMENT
Archives
ADVERTISEMENT