Every read Louis Sachar's Holes?? It is an amazing book. I read it back in Lib School for a YA lit class. Sachar wrote some of my favorite chapter books as a kid, like the Sideways Stories From Wayside School series.

The movie is on Disney right now. I went to see it in the theater when it came out a few years ago and it was awesome too. The story ( Read more... )

The man who runs the liquor store down the way from the library just brought me some keys that were left behind. He'd be a good detective. They had one of our little key-ring library cards attached so he figured I could look up the owner and contact them. He said he found the keys on the floor by the vodka.

So, I scan the barcode and pull up the ( Read more... )

After spending much of 2007 posting online in forums and on MySpace and LJ, and reading little (other than children's books) besides that which came to me on my computer monitor, I decided to read more books for pleasure in 2008. Before becoming addicted to the net I always loved it. I mean, how else could I have survived with no net and no t.v. ( Read more... )

I was going to sing Santa Baby, but this is more my style...

Earlier in the month I heard a report on NPR about the state of reading in America, and I thought that would be the perfect topic for my November newspaper article for the library. I just thought I'd post it here so anyone else interested in literacy could get a peek...

In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts conducted a study on the reading ( Read more... )