Eva's Book Addiction

This is going to be my last blog post for quite some time - perhaps even a year or more.  Partly it's that I want to use the time I spend writing posts on other pursuits (mainly more reading) an...

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Is it enough to give tweens slightly longer and more complicated storytimes or invite them to teen programs?  I ponder service to tweens on the ALSC Blog .

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The annual California Library Association conference was that happy mixture of inspiration, ideas and relaxation.  Unlike ALA, there is no staggering about in a foot-sore, exhausted daze; the ex...

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It's been mostly a juggling act at work lately, trying to keep all my projects and deadlines from crashing down around me.  Or maybe it's more like an endless swim across choppy seas - exhilarat...

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I'm listening to The Game of Thrones by G.R.R. Martin on audiobook during my daily commute.  We're talking 28 CDs!  Good thing I'm on the road two hours a day. The problem with audiobooks is...

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The scariest thing that happened to me on Halloween was getting my daughter's "School Report Card" in the mail.  My daughter is a senior at Venice High School , from which my older daughter grad...

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In a perfect world, my job would include an hour or two reserved purely for thinking, reflecting, planning, and mulling things over.  Some of this thinking would be targeted at particular is...

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I've just read two books, one right after another, in which the main character is a young person, and yet both books are for adults.  Weirdly, both books are almost exactly the same size, being ...

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Griffin, Adele.  Tighter.  Knopf, 2011. "You'll have to give this book a try when I'm done with it," I told my 17-year-old when I was halfway through Tighter.  "It's creepy - kind of a mo...

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Right now I could be downtown at the Central Library seeing Colson Whitehead speak , but though I quite liked The Intuitionist and enjoyed Sag Harbor up until I got bored with it - AND though I'd...

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Meloy, Maile.  The Apothecary.  Putnam, 2011. It's 1952 and 14-year-old Janie's parents have just been blacklisted, which means a move for the whole family from Los Angeles to London.  Ja...

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Ever realize you've sunk into a rut, program-wise, and need to freshen things up?  I've got a post on the ALSC Blog that mulls this over .

http://evasbookaddiction.blogspot.com/2011/10/program-overhaul.html

Halloween is only a week and a half away, looming in all its orangey-black glory. Back when I was working with actual real children in the library every day, I wouldn't dream of showing up on H...

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Children's literature - it's written for kids, and yet it's written by grown-ups, critiqued by grown-ups, studied by grown-ups, bought by grown-ups, sold by grown-ups and recommended to kids by ...

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Due to a tiny snafu, the National Book Award committee nominated 6 books for the Young People's Literature category instead of 5. Hey, more to read and love, right?  And I would have been he...

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Ursu, Anne.  Breadcrumbs.  Walden Pond Press, 2011. 5th-grader Hazel's life isn't perfect.  Her dad left fairly recently, meaning (among other things) that Hazel had to leave her mellow p...

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StingRay meets Lumphy for the first time Plastic's question "Why are we here?" that so plagues Lumphy the plush buffalo in Jenkins' Toys Come Home is actually two questions in one. I assum...

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Jenkins, Emily.  Toys Come Home.  Schwartz & Wade Books, 2011. This prequel to the magnificent Toys Go Out and Toy Dance Party depicts the arrival of StingRay (a stuffed stingray, natura...

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Back in the Before Time when I was in college, a certain very young and intense man read this passage from Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel to me; it's from the point of view of the main char...

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Henkes, Kevin.  Junonia.  Greenwillow, 2011. The world of an only child is filled with grown-ups, or at least that's the case for Alice during an annual vacation in Florida.  Generally th...

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To find out how some of my LAPL colleagues and I spent the summer, check out our School Library Journal reviews of December Holiday Books . And bring on the eggnog, heavy on the rum!

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 Wolitzer, Meg.  The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman.  Dutton, 2011. Three pairs of kids are competing in the Youth Scrabble Tournament: April, paired with her best friend Lucy, is the lon...

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A writer friend and I were talking the other day about the problem of children's and YA author programs at libraries.  There are two problems, actually. 1.  Attendance can be sparse 2.  Eve...

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Seen around the Internet: Those of you who have read N.D. Wilson's Dragon's Tooth will appreciate this chance to win a boxing monkey patch.   And everyone will appreciate that Wilson calls hi...

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My younger daughter turns 17 tomorrow. She's reading Ursula LeGuin's The Farthest Shore, Jose Saramago's Blindness, and Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full - all at the same time. No matter where life ...

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