A bonus issue of News & Notes this week! Heads up — The second annual Take Your Child to the Library Day is Feb. 2, 2013! If your library isn’t participating, let them know about it this event, and take your kids anyway. There’s more information and a link to… Read more »
I love it when my favorite authors are publicly recognized for the excellence of their work! Congratulations to Tamora Pierce, who has won YALSA’s 2013 Margaret A. Edwards Award for “her significant and lasting contribution” to YA literature. Ms. Pierce was honored for two of her Tortall series, “The Song… Read more »
I’ve been looking at the list of upcoming movies for 2013, and for a change, there are quite a few I might like to see. I don’t go to movies in the theater very often, but there are some movies that are really worth seeing on the big screen, while… Read more »
artist’s conception of the interior of the BiblioTech Two interesting developments on the library front: In North Carolina State University’s new library, robots bring you the books you want; the stacks are closed to humans. (Flavorwire) And Bexar County, Texas, is about to open BiblioTech, the first all-ebook… Read more »
Categories: nonfiction; memoir; religion Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2012 Book Source: Public library I first came across Dr. Alexander and his near-death experience in an online article (which I can no longer locate), and was instantly intrigued. Years ago, I read Dr. Raymond A. Moody’s Life After Life, which was… Read more »
The Twelve Clues of Christmas Series: Her Royal Spyness #6 on Nov. 6, 2012 Pages: 311 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Heirs and Graces On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me—well, actually, my true love, Darcy O’Mara, is spending a feliz navidad tramping… Read more »
Gone West by Carola Dunn Series: Daisy Dalrymple #20 Published by Minotaur Books on January 17, 2012 Genres: British mystery, Cozy Mystery, Historical Mystery Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover Source: the library Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Anthem for Doomed Youth, Heirs of the Body, The Corpse at the… January 20, 2013 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 0 ★★★½
Jana Reiss’s Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor was a Christmas gift from my parents. As soon as I saw the title, I knew I was going to like this book – and I do. With wry insight and down-to-earth… Read more »
ABE Books has published a lovely and poignant letter written by Harper Lee to Oprah in 2006, in which she talks about the role of books in her childhood. Publishers Weekly reports on the Kobo-indie bookstores program (it’s not having much effect on sales yet.)The Wall Street Journal thinks… Read more »
Hounded Series: Iron Druid #1 on May 3, 2011 Pages: 292 Add to Goodreads Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish… January 10, 2013 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 0 ★★★★½
