Hi, all!  I don't really want to post about job-search stuff, but I'm back from Portland ( Read more... )

Awards have been announced!  And just in time for me to make it to jury duty (I've never been glad I lived so close to the courthouse before, except for the time I got to watch a man trying to stage a jailbreak, WITHOUT PANTS), which is where I am now, with a slow wireless connection.  You can read my MINUTE BY MINUTE responses at six boxes.  Sorry ( Read more... )

I decided that I do want to start a books-only blog, um, mostly so I can have a nice big non-LJ platform for my deep thoughts.  I hope any of you who read this for book stuff will follow me over there.  And I'm hoping that my sisters might be interested in posting their occasional book-related thoughts and reviews; I'm going to add them as authors ( Read more... )

Bowing to public pressure, I've been concentrating on Caldecott and Printz possibles this week.  And I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that

MOST PICTURE BOOKS ARE TERRIBLE

as both literature and art.

Also,

DO NOT WRITE IN RHYME UNLESS YOU ARE DR. SEUSS.

That is all.

Am dying to post my ALA award predictions, and I'm almost there, but I can't in ( Read more... )

The ALA awards will be announced a week from Monday (that's the Caldecott, Newbery, Printz, Coretta Scott King, etc). 
Poll Hmm...Am amused to realize that ALA awards are my fandom.

Since I'm busily trying to read all the books I can that might win the Newbery, and some that might win the Printz (the relatively new young adult category), although a lot of those sound like books I don't really want to read unless someone tells me they're awesome by giving them awards, I thought I might expand into the Caldecott-eligible books ( Read more... )

(This is the continuation of a discussion from the Heavy Medal blog about the Newbery winner/honors from 1953.  The site wouldn't accept my whole comment for some reason, but I thought some of the readers might still want to read this response.  Apologies to those who are coming in the middle of the conversation and/or are not at all interested.)

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AAAAAH!

I am trying to reread Charlotte's Web, which I haven't read in many years because I pretty much have it memorized: I was in the play in high school, and the play is an almost word-for-word adaptation of the text.  (Because I know you will ask: being a person of rather limited acting ability, I was one of three cast in a sort of narrator/ ( Read more... )

There are a great many religious people on Goodreads, especially LDS people.  It makes me wonder if it was publicized in some kind of LDS newsletter or something.  So I've been reading a lot of religious-influenced reviews since I've been on there ( Read more... )

Thing #67 that annoys me about "banned book" lists:

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
The list author says: ( Read more... )