February 2012
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Great Gay Teen Books from Alex Sanchez →
realkidsgoodbooks:
Alex Sanchez has compiled a great list of LGBTQ books for teens. He’s the author of a number of books including, Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say, Getting It, The God Box and Boyfriends with Girlfriends.
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“And let’s be honest, any deal where libraries are giving publishers money for...”
– Annoyed Librarian on libraries and ebooks and patrons and ebooks and what are we going to do about this because I’m really hoping we gain some ground in the right direction very, very soon. (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“A short story is by definition an odder, more eccentric creature than a novel: a...”
– Stacy Schiff reviews Nathan Englander’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank for The New York Times. (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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I'm looking for YA books with POC in them.
strugglingtobeheard:
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feminerdism:
I tutor reading and phonics at an inner-city middle school in Denver. Most of the students are Latino, from low-income households, English Language Learners, and immigrants. Some of them are undocumented immigrants, or their parents are undocumented. Some of their parents work two or three minimum wage jobs, others have parents who are...
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Walk You Home: Librarians as Agents of Democracy →
walkyouhome:
“As agents of democracy, librarians uphold, strengthen and promote the democratic ideals of our society. This is possible because libraries are the only institutions that make knowledge, ideas and information freely available to citizens.” Accordingly, this paper lists those characteristics or…
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Sarah Diemer on Writing Lesbian YA →
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“Authors and writers are in an incredibly inspiring climate right now—if we believe that something “they” say is wrong, we can set out and prove the point. I set out. I proved it. I am going to continue to prove that lesbian girls want stories just as much as straight girls, that straight girls enjoy lesbian stories, that the world NEEDS and WANTS lesbian stories desperately,...
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Writers talk successful scripting →
Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Kristen Wiig, and more discuss writing screenplays at a Writers Guild panel.
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WatchThe trailer for Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, based on the book of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith.
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Smart Bitches, Trashy Books →
Wanna curl up with a romance novel on today of all days? These smart ladies review romance novels and more on this website.
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10 Great Literary Smooches →
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thelifeguardlibrarian:
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s...
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Submit your work: Hybrid Beasts
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Red Lemonade, an imprint of Cursor, is proud to announce a crowdsourced, mongrel, interagency, multi-editorial, recombinant publishing excursion for 2012. The working title of the publication shall be Hybrid Beasts. Publication of the hybrid collection is scheduled for Summer 2012.The process itself is designed to be collaborative and driven by readers and writers interacting within the...
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Library-centric podcasts →
libraryjournal:
thepinakes:
I recommend the podcast Adventures in Library Instruction for all info-lit librarians out there. I’ve gotten scores of great ideas from them.
We got one!
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Buncha free Neil Gaiman stories, audio and text. →
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25 Graphic Novels for Black History Month →
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“Books are only one aspect of what libraries and librarians are about....”
– From the Guardian’s Beyond books: what it takes to be a 21st century librarian. (via libraryjournal)
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January 2012
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“Hollywood has proven that it literally would rather make another big budget film...”
– Saeed Jones, “Watching Pariah With Audre Lorde” (via defy-gravity)
BOOM. points to Saeed also.
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“There is beauty as well as hatred in [Henry Miller’s ‘Tropic of Cancer’], and it...”
– — Jeanette Winterson brings the heat in The New York Times’ Sunday book review. (via millionsmillions)
BOOM. points to jeanette.
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What Books Are Coming Out In Film 2012? →
sawthemovie-readthebook:
Cheggit out at the link! Get reading, fiends.
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Franzen on ebooks and the future of reading →
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booksinthekitchen:
fsgbooks:
“Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it’s just not permanent enough.”
-Jonathan Franzen in his first-ever press...
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“Running this sprint was, of all companies, Barnes & Noble, the giant that...”
– The Bookstore’s Last Stand
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“Fact: most American communities do not have the luxury of an indie bookstore and...”
– Heather McCormack—Editor, LJ Book Review—takes on libraries’ role in helping connect readers (and consumers) to books in “A Most Optimistic Unconference: Publishers, Libraries, and Independent Bookstores at Digital Book World 2012.” (via libraryjournal)
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11 Books Were Made In Oscar-Nominated Films This... →
Check out the list at the link.
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Children's Books Get 21 Oscar Nominations →
Who woulda thunk that big, bad Hollywood needs humble children’s book publishing to bring some razzle-dazzle to the 2012 Oscars? But included in Tuesday morning’s announcement of the 84th annual Academy Award nominations were a whopping 21 nods for films based on kids’ books, demonstrating that children’s books rule in Hollywood – for this year at least.
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“We need to recognize that we don’t have all the answers. We need other people...”
– Richard C. Harwood, president and founder of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation speaking at ALA President’s Program
See also: public schools, religious organizations, government, et al.
(h/t thelibrarianontherun)
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“Love gets so sexualized in our world. We start to feel like there is no love...”
– John Green (on writing Will Grayson, Will Grayson with David Levithan)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Notebooks
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Days of this February were white and magical, the nights were starry and crystalline. The town lay under a cold glory.
Dyed Siberian horse.
As thin as a repeated dream.
The sea was coming up in little intimidating rushes.
The island floated, a boat becalmed, upon the almost perceptible curve of the world.
Lost in the immensity of surfaceless blue sky like air piled on air....
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Watchwashingtonpoststyle:
Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak.
This is the greatest interview in the history of “The Colbert Report.” (Go to our actual tumblog if you have trouble watching on the dashboard.)
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“That was my least favorite question when I was working in our sales department...”
– citymunkie, from this ask.