The countdown to the holidays has begun and I’m also counting down to the end of the semester. November has flown by, mostly because I finished a month at my internship at the high school library and started working full-time as a YA/media selector (collection development librarian) at LPL. That’s in addition to NaNoWriMo, Thanksgiving,… Continue reading Rewind: November 2013
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Book Review: Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federle
Tequila Mockingbird by Tim Federle On Fridays I didn’t have class this semester, my mom and I would meet for a late lunch and early happy hour at one of my favorite downtown restaurants, 715. Even when ordering off the lunch menu and then the happy hour drink specials, it was easy to rack up… Continue reading Book Review: Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federle
Audiobook Review: Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool Published: January 8th 2013 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers Source: local library (audiobook) Synopsis (Goodreads): At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother’s death and placed in a boy’s boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest… Continue reading Audiobook Review: Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
Audiobook Review: Palimpsest by Cathrynne Valente
Palimpsest by Cathrynn Valente Published: February 24th 2009 by Spectra/Random House Source: local library (audiobook) Synopsis (Goodreads): In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and… Continue reading Audiobook Review: Palimpsest by Cathrynne Valente
John Green, Rainbow Rowell, and Jacqueline Woodson at KCPL
Because I have the coolest job, I got to attend this event for work! John Green, Rainbow Rowell, and Jacqueline Woodson came to the Plaza branch of the Kansas City Public Library for a talk and signing. Rainbow Rowell is well near the top of my greatest people in the world list, and I’ve only… Continue reading John Green, Rainbow Rowell, and Jacqueline Woodson at KCPL
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