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Down to the Dublin Wire (and Other Musings on Reading)
Our nominations for the Dublin Award are due in about three weeks, and the committee has almost reached a decision.
1. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2. Let It Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz
3. ???
Choice #3 seems to be a struggle between The Sea by John Banville, Saturday by Ian McEwan, and our dark horse candidate (which I have to finish), ( Read more... ) -
2006 Dublin Award Short List Has Been Announced
... but we did not make it.
Here's the Short List for this year's award. (About half of these titles were on our Library's Long List.)
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Notes from Another Radical Militant Librarian
- The word is out about the Big Close and the Great Diaspora. One more week of Life as I Know It @ the Library ...
- It is a good day to be a Radical Militant Librarian.
- According to my Graphic Novels in Libraries list serv, someone complained about a library owning Y: The Last Man, which I consider to be one of the best new comic books in print. ( Read more... )
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"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads--at least that's where I imagine it--there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep making new ( Read more... ) -
Random McRandomy's Big Steaming Helping of Random Morning Thoughts (with a side of butter)
Today's Flair: Vintage black and white Chinese jacket
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A Flying Circus of Thoughts from a Harried Librarian
Today's Flair: rainbow-colored ribbon scarf that I crocheted during the whole stupid Rita scare
I've spent a majority of the morning flying around trying to get my paperwork for the PLA conference coming up in March. (Anyone else planning to go?)( Read more... )