LCSH Week 48: some are queer and some are weird
15 Authors
Excerpted from Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out 2010 (detail on that TK)
I was tagged by multiple people in the 15 authors game on Facebook. I didn’t get around to making my list there, and I also thought it would be good to publish it in a more archival environment than Fb. It’s supposed to be 15 authors who have influenced you or will always stay with you or whatever, and you’re not supposed to think about it for very long.
I don’t have it in me to contemplate and discuss 15 authors or books that Changed My Life. As committed and voracious a reader as I am, I’m not sure that I am especially influenced by any one writer. I have quite likely been molded by the books I read, but I think it’s the totality of them, rather than any one particular person or book.
Note: ZOMG Thank you, Marissa Falco for the drawing!!!
Sandy Berman LCSH Scorecard December 2010
2010 victories on Sandy Berman's latest Library of Congress Subject Heading personal scorecard (pdf) include...
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Another Life Altogether
Jesse Bennett is an incidentally queer teen with a whack job mom and social status anxiety. I like that the lesbian storyline, while important is only one of the three major themes of this adult, but suitable-for-young-adults novel. Jesse is a likable and believable character in a likable and believable novel. It's a pity I don't have anything brilliant to say about the book because it's a likely candidate for next year's favorites list.
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Dec 25 2010
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978-0-385-53004-0
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Auto Complete Abecedary
I saw this on Jessamyn's blog and thought it would be neat to record my Firefox auto complete abecedary. I tweaked it a wee bit to avoid duplication, and also to not have every link relate to zine cataloging. Nine of them still do, directly or indirectly...
Girls to the Front: the True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
A history of the hey day of riot grrrl, Girls to the Front reads more like a biography of the movement, like a biography of an ex-lover on whom the author has some distance but still identifies with to a large extent. It is a loving, but not uncritical portrait of the rise of riot grrrl and its best known players. A professional (and very talented) writer, Sara Marcus includes herself only in the introduction and briefly in the epilogue. Given my own bias toward personal narratives and the every grrrl, I might have liked a little more about Sara's experiences and adventures, but I still found the book to be educational, inspiring, compelling, and enraging--in a good way.
reviewdate:
Dec 19 2010
isn:
978-0-06-180636-0
