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This week, I read Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston. It was… a struggle. And don’t get me wrong, it’s not the whole fairy–sorry, faerie–thing. Faeries are cool beans. I love faeries. Good faeries, bad faeries, pretty faeries, ugly faeries, faeries that bite your finger because appearances can be deceiving (duh, Hoggle)… love it all. Back to…
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Banning books is bad. But… From the amazing FYA: Let’s All Ban Some Books Red Badge of Courage… still makes me laugh.
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Ness, Patrick. The Knife of Never Letting Go. Candlewick Press, 2008. 479p. $21.00. 978-0-7636-3931-0 Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown, eagerly awaiting his thirteenth birthday and his entrance into manhood. Set on a planet known only as the New World, Todd is the child of settlers from a decaying Earth. Todd was orphaned…
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Booth’s “Reader’s Advisory by Proxy” was a chin-strokingly interesting reading. I’ve never really thought about reader’s advisory by proxy, which is weird because now that I do think about it, I realize it is something that I did a a lot when I worked at Chapters. Especially during the insanely hectic Christmas season, when there were more…
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Just a wee post. I wanted to share this with anyone who hasn’t come across it yet. Enjoy, and be amazed… So utterly beautiful. There’s nothing else to say. Nothing needs to be said. Except that this is the only time I have ever been a fan of the destruction of books. I think you’ll agree.
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Snowball’s article (“Teenagers talking about reading and libraries,” 2008) was an interesting read. It was a detailed and insightful study of a selection of Australian teens, and even though the study was qualitative, as the author points out, the insight into the complex relationship that teens have with reading and with libraries is probably representative of a larger group…
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Part of week 2’s prep was to visit a library or bookstore and “observe, ” so my weekly excursion to Chapters actually had a purpose beyond wandering around the store in a stupor caused by excessive book-lust. I visited the Masonville Chapters last Saturday morning. The Young Adult section, which the store labels the ‘Teen’ section, is, sadly, quite disappointing.…
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So this is my new blog (eek! a new blog!), created for the Young Adult Materials course. I’ll be posting class assignments (book reviews and a booktalk) and weekly-ish reading responses to the YA novels I read as part of the course readings. But because I am a huge nerd, I might blog about the YA novels…
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