Our town, as I've mentioned, time and again, likes to go overboard for the 4th of July. This year I decided I'm posting some pictures.


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Series Intro: to celebrate the 50th anniversary of my FAVORITE BOOK EVER, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, I am filling 2012 with BLOG POSTS EXPLORING EVERY POSSIBLE ASPECT OF THIS BOOK IN GREAT DEPTH. I call it the Year of the Tesseract, and you can see what I've written already by clicking the year of the tesseract tag. There WILL be ( Read more... )

Last night I had a very successful library program, which I'm a bit puffed up on, so let me share it here ( Read more... )

...before ChristmasBabyAmy goes into storage for another year, here IS ChristmasBabyMadeleine doing the same thing:

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I have a draft of another nerdy librarian post for you all, but I hereby interrupt to share a personal anecdote. GASP. SHOCKING. Well, those of you who have livejournal accounts but never come over here anymore, and then wonder why I never post personal anecdotes anymore when all you do is read these public posts on facebook, SHOULD be aware that I ( Read more... )

I just read this lovely article by Kathi Appelt and feel compelled to link you to it because it touches on things I have written about here before, about children's literature, about literature in general, about Accelerated Reader, about bracketing people off into reading levels or genres or cultures or whatever, and even contributes to a ( Read more... )

vovat's got this up:

"01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LJ.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!"I mean, how intense, anyone who LOOKS at the entry? How demanding! But as it ( Read more... )

A: If you haven't played the movie guessing game, go do that. I might edit in some clues (like genre, decade, etc) in if I'm waiting around for my pictures to upload here.

B: Congratulations to vovat and bethje for only having to remember an anniversary every four years ( Read more... )

Okay, might as well paste in some surveys while waiting for Sam to fall asleep for his nap (WIDE awake, that one), and for Jason to remember that he went downstairs to shovel the driveway, so that I can FINALLY get to the grocery. And not die ( Read more... )

I've collected a few surveys over the past couple weeks and figured I'd better post them so I can close this Notebook window, but I guess I'll do that for the end of the post. I'll start with True-Life Updating ( Read more... )