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Everything you wanted to know about sex...You can find during Banned Book Week!

Today begins the American Library Association's annual Banned Book Week, a week of promoting librarians' advocacy for freedom of information and access to books. This also includes challenged books, which are those that some group or individual has deemed too... Continue reading

Posted Sep 27, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Banned Book Week - Librarians as Warriors

This year, the American Library Association celebrates Banned Books on September 27, 2015. Even in this age of information, where movies are pirated, tweets captured for infinity the second they appear and are deleted, and criminals record and post their... Continue reading

Posted Aug 30, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Readings Lists - Not always a form of torture

Our library system has a category of books designated as "Classics," meaning all of those books that are considered to be the iconic fundamentals of great literature. However, in my library a far wiser librarian than myself re-catalogued those books... Continue reading

Posted Aug 16, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Libraries...We're Not Dead Yet

After watching yet another local news report on how the homeless are overrunning the libraries (air conditioning, free Internet, and apparently a surplus of YouTube videos available for viewing), I was left once again with the impression that the general... Continue reading

Posted Aug 2, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Realistically, I have had to face a brutal purge. I still regret some of the books that I donated to my library, and I seriously have to stop myself from getting them back. But I ended up also making a trip to Walmart for more shelves. I would suggest eliminated a house member in order to take his/her room, or building on an addition. Sears has some cute outdoor tool sheds that could easily be converted into a cozy library for your backyard...

Commented Jul 21, 2015 on Hoarders: Buried Alive Book Edition at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Hoarders: Buried Alive Book Edition

I don't have a book collecting problem. I could stop any time that I wanted. I just don't want to. When it comes to weeding out books in the library, I am ruthless. Hasn’t circulated in two years? Gone. Foxing... Continue reading

Posted Jul 19, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Equality, the Gaze, or Just Really Hot Guys

By the time this has posted, I will have accompanied seven other women to see the sequel to the docudrama by acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, “Magic Mike XXL.” The male stripper movie. We are a group of women of varied... Continue reading

Posted Jul 5, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Thanks, Dad

In honor of Father's Day, I would like to pay tribute to all of the ways my father changed my life without my ever really noticing. My dad was the traditional, work all day, go jogging (okay, not so traditional),... Continue reading

Posted Jun 21, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Cameron Crowe...Say Anything...Else

So, when the trailers started appearing for Cameron Crowe's new film, "Aloha," the general reaction here was "There's a movie out that was made in Hawaii? When did that happen?" Considering that there is a State Office specifically designed to... Continue reading

Posted Jun 7, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Be a Super Summer Reader!

Never let it be said that the libraries aren't willing to jump on the bandwagon and follow a trend! This year, the American Library Association's Collaborative Summer Reading Programs themes are all about the superheroes. So whether you are a... Continue reading

Posted May 24, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Can We Have a Rich Hero?

As I was attempting to do some spring cleaning (five minutes, tops), I discovered a trove of some of my favorite mysteries. One was a series by Cynthia Smith, featuring the very rich, very beautiful “private resolver” Emma Rhodes, who... Continue reading

Posted May 10, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Kill Your Darlings (Or, the Darlings of Your Darlings) SPOILERS AHOY!

Okay, yes. I am one of those rather horrified viewers who, after eleven seasons (three that were really good) and ten years, saw McDreamy literally get his plugged pulled on Grey's Anatomy. As the showrunner and creator, Shonda Rhimes, has... Continue reading

Posted Apr 26, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Death and Tax Time

1. It’s April. 2. I seem to have forgotten to have little dependents running around. 3. I am a procrastinator. One plus two plus 3 equals that I am a mess, and I just realized that I will be a... Continue reading

Posted Apr 12, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Teach Your Parents Well...Before You Give Them Your iPad.

Every year in January, we see them come into the library. Holding a deluxe, super-bubble protected, and reinforced leatherbound e-reader. In December, thoughtful children decide that the perfect gift for their traveling, book-loving parents is an e-reader that allows them... Continue reading

Posted Mar 29, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Not Fresh Off The Boat, But Enjoying the Diversity

Somewhat. The first Asian-led cast of a television show in twenty years (even I thought All-American Girl was terrible) has been more or less well received, despite its inspiration basically smack-talking before it even premiered. Based on the memoir of... Continue reading

Posted Mar 15, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Marvel's Agent Carter...so close to be great.

When it was announced that Marvel and ABC would be creating a spinoff of Captain America spotlighting Agent Peggy Carter, I…sort of cheered? Fans had been hoping for a Black Widow solo outing, or any female superhero feature, but at... Continue reading

Posted Mar 1, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Love, Obsession, and Stab, Stab, Stab...This Isn't Going to End Well.

It’s February 15th, just after my favorite holiday of the year! Friday the 13th! While there is a plethora of sweet love stories available, in the spirit of wallowing in my anti-romantic sentiments, I prefer my romantic tales to be... Continue reading

Posted Feb 15, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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It's the Oscars! Break Out Your Gown, Fast Forward the Speeches, and...Grab a Book?

Hollywood has never met an old idea that it didn’t try to make new again, but this past year they’ve managed to do it surprisingly well. A good number of the 2015 Oscar nominated films were based on books, and... Continue reading

Posted Feb 1, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Comfort Culture for the Comatose

Living in Hawaii means that we don’t have blizzards that cut power and force shut-ins for weeks on end (why do people live on the East Coast at all?), but that doesn’t mean that we escape the seasonal flus that... Continue reading

Posted Jan 18, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Non-Resolutions of a Cranky Librarian

As a general rule, I do not make New Year’s Resolutions. I mean, chances are that I wouldn’t even remember them by February (Imaginary Resolution #1: Work on memory skills). Traditions are traditions though, and since I am completely spineless... Continue reading

Posted Jan 4, 2015 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Anticipation vs. Expectation

Ah, Christmastime. Every year it approaches earlier and earlier, often bypassing Halloween entirely to swoop in right after Labor Day. What used to be a slow burn of tingly hopefulness has become the anxiety of facing down combative shoppers, the... Continue reading

Posted Dec 21, 2014 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Thanks, Jessy. Yes, we have many of those comics you mentioned and they are great. I just have a geeky love of superhero comics. Believe it or not, though, even our Archie comics still are popular! Manga is huge here as well, and we have an annual Kawaii-Kon that is a Comic Con for manga. It's just not something I can get into.

Commented Dec 9, 2014 on Its a great time to be a comic book nerd at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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