LCSH Week 18: of Infant Psychiatry, Organic Beer, and Presidents Pets
This week on LCSH Watch:
- French restaurants
- Infant psychiatry
- Organic beer
- Presidents' pets
- various countries wit and humor
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Sarah's Key
I almost put this book down because I disliked the opening so much, but I persevered. When possible, I try to stick with Nancy Pearl's recommendation that you give the book 50 pages to convince you. Plus it was the only book I had at Eric's place, so I had to either give it more of a shot or brave the cool, wet June weather and walk the two blocks to my house for a better selection.
What I didn't like in the beginning was how childishly de Rosnay portrayed a child, but that got better as soon as the kid broke out of the Vel' d'Hiv, thus avoiding death at Auschwitz. That sort of thing matures a ten-year-old fast, and even the person writing her life has to respect that.
By page 40 or so, the story, which is told alternately in the third person about the ten-year-old (Sarah) and from the first person point of view of an American expatriate (Julia) living in Paris with her French husband and daughter, gets pretty compelling.
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Jun 6 2009
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978-0-312-37083-1
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Masquerade
The second book in the Blue Bloods series begins where the last one leaves off. Our heroine is trying to solve the mystery of who is preying on her and her fellow teenage vampires, but the all powerful Committee denies that there is any danger.
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Jun 3 2009
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978-078683893-6
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Blue Bloods
As I've been saying, I've been having a hard time getting into serious literature lately, and so, being on vacation and all, I decided to embrace my love of vampire books and young adult fiction and dig into the Blue Bloods series by Melissa De La Cruz, a Philippines native now living in NY and LA.
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Jun 2 2009
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978-142310126-0
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Grassroots Media Conference 2009 Report Back
Radical Reference conducted two workshops and tabled at this year's Grassroots Media Conference. We've been participating in the conference for five years (or so) and a partnering organization for the last two. It's one of my favorite conferences, with lots of sessions I want to attend, even though I don't really consider myself a media maker in the same way that most of the attendees do. I make zines and blog and all that, but it's not with a journalistic intent.
LCSH Week 16: snot as a renewable energy source?
Oops. I accidentally skipped Week 16 of the Library of Congress Subject Headings lists
This week on LCSH Watch:
- Amateur journalism
- Citizen journalism
- Bisexuals—Relations with heterosexuals
- Clapper (Musical instrument)
- Evolution (Biology)—Religious aspects—Christianity
- Nuclear families
- Renewable energy sources
- Romance films
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Dead to the World
Four books into the Sookie Stackhouse series, I'm finally willing to admit I'm getting hooked. That's not entirely stubbornness or snobbery talking; only with this one and it's predecessor, Club Dead did I read the books in a hurry. Plus, I liked that Harris thanked a librarian, Doris Ann Norris, in her acknowledgments page.
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May 31 2009
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978-0-441-01218-3
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Hula
Because I've been reading such crap lately, I sort of forced myself to finish this literary novel even though I wasn't enjoying it so much. It's actually quite poetically written; it just didn't grab me. The narrator is a pre-teen with an angry older sister, a fucked up veteran father, and a mother who doesn't have much of a presence in their lives. They've also got a dog that keeps getting knocked up and a bunny with no tail. That's all I've got to say about the book. Sorry.
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May 27 2009
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0-393-03589-1
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LCSH Week 17: where LC pairs food & wine, but not punks and parenting
This week on LCSH Watch, we examine
- Beneficiaries
- DNA fingerprinting (Islamic law)
- Food and wine pairing
- God—Wrath
- Gods—Wrath
- Golf tournament programs
- Submarines on postage stamps
...and I agitate for INFOSHOPS and PUNK PARENTING, per my latest mailing from the notorious Sandy Berman.
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Reviews of Vampire Fiction for Young Adults
I couldn't remember the name of a teen vampire series I saw the last time I was at the Tompkins Square branch of the New York Public Library. They didn't have the first book in the series, so I told myself I'd remember it. Ha! So I typed {ya fiction vampires} into a search engine and came up with Vampire Fiction for Young Adults as the first result. I immediately recognized Blue Bloods as the series I was after, and I'll be able to mine the site for more teen vamp books as soon as I'm done with the Blue Bloods. Just thought I'd share. (Maybe all y'all teen librarians know about Monster Librarian, but us ignorant academics aren't quite as well-informed.)