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Just because everyone else has already done a Wordle tag cloud for something doesn’t mean I can’t post mine, too. And so I present Walden (thanks, Project Gutenberg!), the tag cloud:

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell — I read this on the recommendation of Steve Lawson, who had mentioned it being a good book and a dead-on portrait of being a kid in the early 1980s. I didn’t end up identifying so much with the protagonist, who is about thirteen and lives in a […]

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart — A great puzzle-solving book in which kids have to figure out how to get along in order to save the world.
R Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt — I loved this book when I was a kid, and I got sucked into rereading it while […]

I have a confession to make. I like books. I like books more than I like movies. I like books more than I like television, by a long shot. I suspect that I like books more than I like video games, although since I’ve played so few video games in my […]

Clearly I’m not managing to do this once a month, or even once every other month. Oh well–those of you uninterested in my reading know how to skip an entry, so I won’t apologize too much for length. As always, an R in front of a book indicates that it’s one I reread; […]

As many of you know, I work at a joint school/public library. Although I am not actually a school librarian (though I have taken some education classes, which were enough to convince me I didn’t want to be a teacher), I try my best to balance those two duties. My co-worker, who is […]

The one area in which I find bookstore classification preferable to library classification is literary nonfiction.  A good book store will have a section reserved for essays, and sometimes longer nonfiction narratives.  At such a store, you can get one-stop shopping for the works of Annie Dillard, John McPhee, Gretel Ehrlich, et al.  In both […]

This was going to be March and April only, but then suddenly it was June. I keep meaning to do these summaries more often, but clearly by “more often” I mean “well, once in a great while.” As usual, an L indicates a book I listened to and an R one I reread. […]

I’ve been thinking lately about how I might become a better librarian in the next year. The first thing that popped into my mind–read more books. I know, I know, we’re about more than books. We have CDs! and movies (VHS and DVD!) and databases! and downloadable audiobooks! But seriously, the most […]

Via PublishersLunch from Publishers Marketplace, news that Jonathan Lethem is proposing to subvert the dominant book/movie copyright paradigm, at least somewhat.
Also, I trust others have reported this, but according to US News and World Report, we’re among “25 professions that will growing in demand as baby boomers age, the Internet becomes ubiquitous, and Americans seek […]