LCSH Week 5: boys are weird
The winner of the Lower East Side Librarian LCSH of the Week for Week 5, February 3, 2010 is...
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Zines 101 for Queens Library
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Alycia Sellie
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Queens Library zines program
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LCSH Week 4: Still Cookery
As I said last time, I'm getting a little sick of this exercise, so I'm going to try an abbreviated version. I'll just pick one LCSH from each weekly list and dub it the Lower East Side Librarian LCSH of the Week. Week 4 of 2010's winner is...
Girls and Boys
The more I read Lynda Barry, the more I wonder what kind of a crazy childhood she must have had. Boys and Girls is comics depicting painfully familiar incidents from childhood, adolescence, and also adult life. A section on finding your perfect love mate cracked me up, especially the Success Begins at Home quiz...
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Mar 5 2010
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0-941104-00-1
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Touch of Dead, a
I was a little creeped out by Harris's dedication, "For all those readers who want every last sip of Sookie." I wonder if she really thinks of her fans as vampires? Let me be clear that I like Sookie, but I'm not a fanatic about it. What I am a fanatic about is reading. I like to be thorough, so when I learned of this collection of short stories that complements or fills in the Sookie Stackhouse series, I requested it from the library right away.
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Mar 5 2010
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978-0-441-01783-6
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Zine Distros review in Library Journal
The latest Library Journal zine reviews column, Teach a Zine Librarian To Fish: Zine Distro Reviews is up. Thanks to Anastasia, Jerianne, Kelly, and Kelsey for helping out. This marks the first column where I wrote a review myself instead of just editing.
Girl Made of Dust
An eight-year-old, as sympathetic as she may be, is not always the most reliable narrator. I think Abi-Ezzi counts on the reader to understand what her protagonist Ruba isn't able to explain. Or maybe the storytelling just isn't that great. The premise--a Christian family trying to get by in Lebanon in the early 1980s--is compelling enough, but I just didn't buy into the drama of the fucked up father and the terrible secret from his past.
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Mar 3 2010
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978-0-8021-1895-0
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WASPS (Persons)
How did I not know that WASPS (PERSONS) was a Library of Congress subject heading. (Or did I? My mind is a sieve sometimes.) The record indicates that the heading was established (or last modified?) in 1986.
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Industrial Magic: Women of the Otherworld, Book IV
I read this book while in the process of packing up the apartment I lived in for the last ten years. I needed something that was...easy. Industrial Magic, like it's prequel went down easy. I still find narrator Paige Winterbourne a little middle-aged for a 23-year-old, but the story is damned absorbing.
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Feb 23 2010
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0-553-58707-2
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Triangle
When it comes to online reviews, if I don't have something nice to say, I try not to say anything at all. Unless the book makes me really mad. I should have put Triangle down when I realized it wasn't going to meet my admittedly high expectations of a book about the Triangle Factory Fire (I love union maids!), but even though I kind of hated it, it was readable enough.
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Feb 18 2010
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0-374-28142-4