Donatery 2011
It's end-of-the-year donations time. Here's who I'm giving money to, with their mission statement or info from their about page...
City of Ashes
Pretty much the same review as for City of Bones.
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Dec 25 2011
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978-1-4169-7224-2
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Lambrusco
I'm counting this as read because I got through most of it. The premise is cool, and the first 100+ pages. It's about a bunch of partisans in Occupied Italy. Down with Mussolini and down with the Nazis! But, the rest of it is a little muddy. Juicy subject heading: World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Fiction.
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Dec 22 2011
isn:
978-0-375-42496-0
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Sandy Berman on the destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library
Sandy Berman sent this letter to American Libraries on December 6, 2011.
The Library of Congress indulges my kitty pr0n fetish by adopting four cats
Reading Log 2011
I've counted up the reviews I've posted between 12/1/2010 and 11/30/11, and here are the results...
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City of Bones
For the most part I found City of Bones absorbing, yet predictable. There's one surprise I didn't see coming but should have, though. The protagonist, Clary, turns 16 during the course of the novel. I hope she catches onto things quicker as the series progresses and she gets older.
reviewdate:
Dec 17 2011
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978-1-4169-5507-8
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Mountain of Crumbs, a
Gorokhova writes about growing up in 1960s and 70s Leningrad. I'd been curious about life in the USSR, and this memoir was exactly what I was looking for. She's a good writer, especially in her non-native but just as good English.
reviewdate:
Dec 11 2011
isn:
978-1-4391-3558-7
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lesbian genre fiction
Barnard is expanding its lesbian fiction collection (let me know if you want a copy of the article) to include lesbian genre fiction. Please share favorite titles, authors, series, publishers and awards to make my collection development work easier.
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Influencing Machine, the
It seems like no one remembers or gives credit to the For Beginners series. Gladstone acts like no one has done a graphic history/politics book before, like this was some crazy new idea she hatched. Clearly I'm a little annoyed at that, but I started off liking the book plenty. The first page I dog-eared to quote says this "The American media are not afraid of the government. They are afraid of their audiences and advertisers. The media do not control you. They pander to you."
reviewdate:
Dec 6 2011
isn:
978-0-393-07779-7