What if Red Riding Hood's wolf was actually a werewolf and Red Riding Hood vowed revenge against the bad doggie who ate her grandma? That's more or less the story Ms. Pearce tells, except that Red Riding Hood is actually sisters, one a fighter and one a lover.
Do I look any different?
I, well actually most Eric, updated my site last night to Drupal 6. Please let me know if anything seems weird, broken, or missing.
I think most of the changes are administrative; i.e. y'all shouldn't notice them.
LCSH Watch: Week 49, December 9, 2009:
LCSH Watch: Week 48, December 2, 2009. For a visual supplement, check out Tricia Burmeister's post.
Beginning in December of last year I have been reviewing all the books I read and some of my favorite zines right here on my blog. From 12/1/08 to 11/30/09 I reviewed 96 books and zines. Here are some statistics and links to my top 20 of the year...
Alzheimer's Disease is horrible and scary and horrible. It's I think a little less horrible and scary and horrible as depicted in this novel by neuroscientist Lisa Genova. The narrator is an extremely intelligent and even-tempered Harvard professor with early onset Alzheimer's. While reading the page turner in about a day, I was often moved to tears. The originality of the premise—the telling of the story from the point of view of the patient—and the convincingness with which Genova depicts it are unmistakable. However, do you see a however coming?
I don't like to write bad book reviews. Normally, I don't finish books I don't like, but with young adult books, it's easier to keep going even when they suck. So this is my warning to you, should you not heed the fact that Deepak Chopra supplied one of The Seven Rays' blurbs: just because Ms. Bendinger wrote Bring It On and Stick It, the latter of which I love with all my heart, does not mean she can or should write novels.
And the weirdest thing, she thanks the cover designer in her acknowledgments.
Among Sandy Berman's latest recommendations to the Library of Congress Subject Authority Cooperative is CYBERCHONDRIA.
Call for Proposals –
Poster Session proposals are due on January 4, 2010!
The 2010 National Diversity in Libraries Conference, NDLC2010: From Groundwork to Action, will take place from July 14-16, 2010 in Princeton, NJ. The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC) is a biennial event that serves as a regional meeting for library staff members to discuss diversity issues, especially issues common to the host region's culture.
The 2010 NDLC Planning Committee invites you to submit a poster session proposal for the conference. Proposal submission details...
Librarian crush of the irregular period: Cherie Yanek
I first met Cherie in 2004 before the Republican National Convention came to town. I heard that the NYC Radical Cheerleaders ("I'm sexy, I'm cute, Political to Boot!") had a library school student in their midst who sported an anti-USA PATRIOT Act button when she cheered.