It’s been a busy summer and I just looked at the calendar and realized we are already a few days into August. Like many things on my “to do” list, I have not made much progress on my “to read” list and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. It seems like I have stacks [...]
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A coworker sent me a couple videos that I wanted to share: Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother (the 2nd best book I’ve read this year), and John Scalzi, author of Zoe’s Tale (the 3rd best book I’ve read this year), talking about their books, their blogs, and their pranks, including taping bacon to cats. [...]
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It’s summer, which means every day hungry teens tear through our books. It also means It also means each morning, we try to make everything look nice again after the teen tornado has swept through. While it’s not fun stooping to pick up the books that have half-fallen through the floor and sneezing [...]
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Sign up for Summer Reading during the week of June 9 and net a hot dog, drink and chips at our Kick-off June 14, 11a.m. to 2 p.m. Free book as soon as you sign up. Every week you add something you’ve read, you’re elgible to win a Best Buy ot Target gift card.
We’ll also [...]
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If you haven’t read the Harry Potter series yet, don’t bother until you can get “credit” for it (as in college credit).
Check it out – Harry Potter novels make the Yale curriculum.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/03/25/cnnu.potter/index.html
Jen, Sheraden
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