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Leila
Maine. Mainemainemaine.
Librarian. Okay, okay. Uber-librarian. Minus the MLS. That might happen. Someday.
Interests: So many things: <br><b>Good TV:</b> Twin Peaks, Buffy, Black Books, Doctor Who, Deadwood, Saxondale, Veronica Mars, Spaced, MST3K, etc., etc., etc. <br><b>Possibly Less-Good TV:</b> Pretty Little Liars, Bones, The OC, etc. <br><b>Movies:</b> Shaun of the Dead, Slither, Jezebel, Scream, Serial Mom, Friday the 13th, Die Hard, Dirty Dancing, True Romance, Wild at Heart, BBC Pride & Prejudice, etc., etc., etc. <br><b>Music:</b> Townes Van Zandt, Justin Townes Earle, Guy Clark, The Flatlanders, Slaid Cleaves, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, The Blasters, Ryan Adams, Dwight Yoakam, John Prine, Iris DeMent, Lucinda Williams, etc., etc., etc. <br><b>Crafts:</b> knitting, spinning, sewing, and whatever I happen to be currently selling in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/bookshelvesofdoom">Etsy shop</a>. <br><b>Gardening:</b> though it's more about picking out the seeds and harvesting the vegetables than, you know, <i>weeding</i>.
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May 23, 2013: Lucky Penny Day.
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I haven't been able to find anything about who started Lucky Penny Day, or why. Which leads me to realize that creating these "national days" is a pretty serious free-for-all. CLEARLY WE NEED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT AND COME... Continue reading
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Today @KirkusReviews...
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...I wrote about Aaron Hartzler's Rapture Practice: Capital-b Belief is something that I have immense respect for, but I’ve never felt like I’ve succeeded in completely wrapping my mind around it. Maybe it’s one of those You Know It If... Continue reading
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How to stretch your library budget...
...with BookMooch and PaperbackSwap (and some nice shout-outs to Flux and Orca, too) at Maine Crime Writers: I’m still operating on the same material budget I had when I took on the job as Hartland Public librarian in 2006. I... Continue reading
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Mortal Instruments character posters.
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And suddenly, I am so excited to see this movie: More here! Continue reading
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New YA: March 22-31.
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New hardbacks: Avenger (Halflings Novel, A), by Heather Burch Black Helicopters, by Blythe Woolston Dear Life, You Suck, by Scott Blagden Going Vintage, by Lindsey Leavitt If You Find Me, by Emily Murdoch Impostor, by Jill Hathaway Period 8, by... Continue reading
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My reading rules.
Over at BookRiot today, there's a post about personal reading rules: When I started thinking about this piece, I thought about it as just a list of my (many!) seemingly arbitrary rules for reading. Once I got started, though, I... Continue reading
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May 22, 1859: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born.
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So many options here! We could go with characters who LOVE Sherlock Holmes, like Ingrid from Peter Abrahams' Echo Falls books, or Christopher from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time or Colin Fischer from er, Colin Fischer.... Continue reading
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No Star for You!
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As I always get a giggle out of Travis Jonker's One Star Review Guess Who posts, I figured I'd swipe the idea and post the occasional one-star Amazon review of a much-lauded YA title. So, can you guess what book... Continue reading
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Links shared on Twitter: May 14-21.
[View the story "Links, etc.: May 14-21." on Storify] Continue reading
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Classroom use of Siobhan Dowd's Bog Child challenged in Northern Ireland.
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From the Irish Times: The Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt complained at Stormont that the teaching guide for Bog Child was evidence of bias and the worst kind of “politicisation of the classroom” under Sinn Féin’s direction. Mr Nesbitt... Continue reading
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Midwinterblood -- Marcus Sedgwick
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Oh. OH. OH MY GOD, I LOVE THIS BOOK. And I have no idea how to write about it. Ten pages in, I was all, "HEY, COOL! THIS IS SO WICKER MAN-Y! I LIKE." Then, I came to the end... Continue reading
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May 21, 1973: Noel Fielding is born.
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Noel Fielding, in case you're tragically unaware of who he is, is one of the Mighty Boosh guys. I adore him, both in his Vince Noir persona on The Mighty Boosh and as himself as a team captain on Never... Continue reading
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Black City: Black City Chronicles, #1 -- Elizabeth Richards
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Sixteen-year-old Ash Fisher is the son of a vampire and a human, and as far as he knows, the only twin-blood in Black City. Because of his human blood he's allowed by law to live in the city proper, rather... Continue reading
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The 2012 Nebula winners...
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...have been announced. The Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book went to: Fair Coin, by E.C. Myers! See this post for the rest of the shortlist and this post for the rest of the winners. Continue reading
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Today @KirkusReviews...
...I wrote about M.M. Vaughan's The Ability, which wasn't a perfect match for me, but will very likely please younger fans of Roald Dahl. Continue reading
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Out of the Easy -- Ruta Sepetys
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In Out of the Easy, Ruta Sepetys had me at hello. It begins: My mother's a prostitute. Not the filthy, streetwalking kind. She's actually quite pretty, fairly well spoken, and has lovely clothes. But she sleeps with men for money... Continue reading
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The Chocolate War -- Robert Cormier Chapters 29-39
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And now we come to the end of my re-read of Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War. Previous installments are here, here, here, and here. This is, hands down, the most bizarre cover I've come across. Is that a girl? Dancing?... Continue reading
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The Chocolate War -- Robert Cormier Chapters 18-28
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I'm going to finish up my re-read of Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War with TWO BIG POSTS. Previous installments are here, here and here. Okay, settle in! Chapter Eighteen: In which Jerry has a long dark night of the soul.... Continue reading
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The Chocolate War -- Robert Cormier Chapters 12-17
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My re-read of The Chocolate War continues! Previous installments are here and here. Chapter Twelve: In which Jerry has his last perfect moment in a long, long time. Jerry's at football practice, and his frustration about—and this is my interpretation,... Continue reading
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Winter White: Belles, #2 -- Jen Calonita
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Spoilers about Belles are a necessity! OKAY. SO. After long-lost cousins Isabelle Scott (from the Wrong Side of the Tracks, basically the North Carolina version of Chino) and Mirabelle Monroe (from Emerald Cove, basically the North Carolina version of the... Continue reading
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May 16, 1929: The first Academy Awards ceremony is held.
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While there are loads and loads of Hollywood-themed YA books—most recently, I especially enjoyed Rachel Shukert's Starstruck—I'm going to point you back to Cecil Castellucci's first book, Boy Proof. Which, many years and many books later, is still my favorite... Continue reading
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The 48 Hour Book Challenge is nigh.
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However! It'll be a bit different this year: MotherReader has decided to take a well-deserved break from hosting duties, so Ms. Yingling and Abby the Librarian have waded into the fray and TAKEN CHARGE. Regardless! Start organizing your TBR pile,... Continue reading
Posted 7 days ago at bookshelves of doom
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer.
Because, you know, I TOTALLY NEED YET ANOTHER SHOW TO GET HOOKED ON: Continue reading
Posted May 15, 2013 at bookshelves of doom
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SQUEEFEST.
I just found out that there's a third book in Maggie Stiefvater's Books of Faerie series due out later this year. Pardon me WHILE I HYPERVENTILATE! SO. EXCITED! Continue reading
Posted May 15, 2013 at bookshelves of doom
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Don't mind me!
Just tinkering. Continue reading
Posted May 15, 2013 at bookshelves of doom
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