LCSH & SACO Month 2: LC welcomes Trans-women, at least as a cross-reference
Here's a twofer: highlights from the SACO editorial meeting and new LCSH from February 2013...
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Requiem
I think I've read too many YA dystopias lately, because I can barely keep them straight. This one is the end of the trilogy that started with Delirium. The concept, that love is regarded as a disease, and that people are surgically cured upon turning eighteen, is pretty cool. In Requiem we find our heroine wondering if she'd prefer to be happy (cured) or free (starving in the Wilds). Frankly I often wonder the same thing, regarding how medicated we modern folk are.
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Mar 21 2013
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978-0-06-201453-5
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Calling Invisible Women
If it's not bad enough that menopausal women feel invisible, in Ray's world, a pharmaceutical cocktail of antidepressant, bone density, and hormone pills with a one-time spritz of Botox causes some women to actually go invisible.
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I'm a librarian. I have good research skills. I didn't lose my job because nobody cares whether or not librarians are invisible.
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Mar 17 2013
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978-0-307-95551-7
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On the Ground: an Illustrated History of the Sixties Underground Press in the U.S.
I probably shouldn't take full credit for reading this one. Basically I looked at the pictures and read only the stuff from the 3 women (vs. 22 men) with interviews in this oral history.
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Mar 14 2013
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978-1-60486-455-7
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Prodigy
Following Legend, Prodigy is a tale of a divided, dystopic America, from the perspective of the commie side's two most notorious outlaws, both fifteen. They discover that the corporate side is no heaven either, nor is the resistance of the former that they've been drawn into supporting.
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Mar 13 2013
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978-0-399-25675-9
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LCSH Month 1: of Meatmaster sheep, Optimism in older people, and Spoken word poetry (you're welcome)
Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam, the
A middle-class white American who grew up atheist comes out as Muslim. Though she has to convert officially to be square with Egypt, the way Wilson describes her relationship with the religion calls to mind realizing or accepting that you're gay, not becoming so.
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Personality, that compromise between one's soul and one's culture.
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Mar 8 2013
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978-0-8021-1887-5
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Book of Cats
The Ralph Steadman of illustrations evoking a the drug-saturated and otherwise seriously fucked up mind of Hunter S. Thompson has published a book of cat drawings. I bought it for Eric for our solstice gift exchange, because I'm that thoughtful. I may have enjoyed the book more than he did, but I would have never bought it for myself. He's welcome.
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Mar 3 2013
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978-0-547-59400-2
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Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
This is a kids' book that I think parents will enjoy more than their kids, and probably not more than once or twice through. I wanted to like it because it's about a young female labor leader, but it's all tell and not a lot of claim on your emotions. The illustrations are pretty great, though, enhanced with collaged fabrics, patterns and text.
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Feb 28 2013
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978-0-06-180442-7