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Poetry Friday
If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit you take it off of course you take it off it doesn’t worry you it isn’t your shoe -Naomi Shihab Nye
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Making choices
Every once and a while, I notice a theme in my reading, and usually it’s completely accidental. This fall it’s been books (and a few manuscripts) about choice. Which, okay, is an underlying theme in a...
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I love a good book meme.
1. What author do you own the most books by? I think it might be a tie between Tamora Pierce and Robin McKinley. 2. What book do you own the most copies of? I have two of a few books (“good” copies and...
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Head in the Clouds
I’ve seen a lot of my more tech-minded friends talk of “cloud computing” recently, which is something I have only the vaguest understanding of. But that’s okay, because I have my own idea of what the...
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Why we do what we do
I read Neil Gaiman’s Newbery acceptance speech (in the latest Horn Book) over lunch today, and, as Newbery acceptances always do, it made me a little teary. In a good, “wow I’m so overcome with...
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Thinking about the Centuries
One of my favorite books is Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. I’ve read it many times, but the first time, I borrowed it from a friend in the third grade. She had a hardcover edition that...
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Good advice for Halloween
You can see some of the inside and buy it right over here. And you probably should, since it is witty and wise.
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
My Heart Is like a Zoo by Michael Hall. Or, for something a little more on the silly side, check out:
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It’s Banned Books Week
Lots of posts are up around the internet this week, which is our designated time to celebrate the freedom to read whatever we want and to think for ourselves, and to talk about all the things we...
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Why I
I’ve been thinking about this post for quite a long time. You see, A Wrinkle in Time was never one of the books I would have said was a favorite when I was a kid. And yet, the more I think about it,...
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