December 2011
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Best of 2011 - favorite tweet →
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Made me laugh
obliteratedheart:
”so hot”
I whispered
as I took my plate out of the microwave
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Best of 2011 - Music →
My favorite tunes from the past year. Enjoy.
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Stop SOPA. Ask the President to veto this bad... →
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“His working formula for this audacious feat seemed to be Steal All the Good...”
– From a totally amazing description of Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming by m83, written by Jayson Greene, on Pitchfork’s Top 50 Albums of 2011.
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Heaven is a place on Earth with you. →
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Best of 2011 - Books
For the first time in my reading life, I kept track of the books I read all year. The only rule I gave myself is that I had to completely finish the book in order to make the list - no cheating. All together I read 45 books, and considering that I’m a pretty slow reader, I am very proud. Here are my top 10 favorites:
True Grit by Charles Portis. This is my favorite kind of book - simple...
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Confession: I love Christmas music. →
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LOOK AT GOOGLE RIGHT NOW.
aww yaay!
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“04. Quitting Facebook: I’d say that this felt liberating except that...”
– An excerpt from Carrie Brownstein’s Best Things list on the Pitchfork Best of 2011 Guest Lists. They’re all pretty amazing. Read them.
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“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some...”
– George Orwell, “Why I Write” (via bardsandsages)
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“Reading it, I came to imagine myself trapped in a vast, fetid swamp from which I...”
– ouch! WaPo pans the latest Jo Nesbo. They hated it.
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I'm baking.
Two kinds of cookies.
Exhibit A: World Peace Cookies.
Exhibit B: Chewy Sugar Cookies.
Pretty soon, there will be a party in my tummy. A cookie party.
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La de da, now with 100% more questions!
While revamping my tumblr this morning, I added a questions section. So if you have been holding back, feel free to fire at will.
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via mgpl)
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Directors Uncensored
I moderated a panel discussion of area library directors for the RLA CE committee on Tuesday. The program was called Directors Uncensored and I wanted to share a few of my favorite takeaways from the session. Unfortunately I cannot attribute all of the ideas because I didn’t write down who said what. When I do know who said it, I will post their name. Thank you, directors. You were awesome.
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“I furtively managed to get someone to help me fix the cakes as George raced in...”
– George Whitman, Bookseller. The Book Bench.
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“I once asked L’Engle to define “science fiction.” She replied,...”
– from The Storyteller by Cynthia Zarin.
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“People have to understand that their short-term decision to save a couple bucks...”
– Seriously, you should read Richard Russo’s op-ed. It’s amazing. Amazon’s Jungle Logic.
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Best of 2011, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Some of you may know (and some of you may not know) that I am a readers’ advisory librarian. And in my new(ish) job, I am in charge of all the Science Fiction and Fantasy collections. Yep. It is awesome. Since the end of the year is just around the corner, I have been working on my library’s Best of the Year list for SciFi and Fantasy. And of course, I want to share. So here it is. The...
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Release the tiny kraken! →
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