This fall there will be the Ninth Annual National Book Festival in DC. Laura Bush started it up, with the help of the Library of Congress, while George Bush was president, modeling it on the very successful Texas Book Festival she started in Austin when GWB was governor here (have I mentioned she and I are both alumni of the…
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Late Summer Reading
Texas has these book lists that a group of librarians decide on each year. And there are a lot of them (truly, everything is bigger in Texas): they have the 2×2 list for ages 2 to grade 2, the Bluebonnet list for 3-6 graders, the Lone Star list is for 6-8 graders, and the TAYSHAS list is for high school…
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Thursday
Today I can’t believe: I have a masters degree I’m moving to Boston in just over three weeks it is so stressful to decide what stuff to leave and what to take when we move the cat ran away from the house we are staying at (they said it was okay) anything is worth reading after Catching Fire I’m going…
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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
TOTALLY SPOILER-FREE (unless you haven’t read The Hunger Games, in which case, yeah, there are loads of spoilers here). 10 of 10: You couldn’t ask for a better follow-up to The Hunger Games. There is no middle-of-the-trilogy slump here. I’d say the Catching Fire book was even better than the first book, incredible as that is. For me, the sign…
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Why I’ll Be on the Couch All Day Long
As if life wasn’t good enough already, this came in the mail yesterday: A million trillion thank-yous to Nancy Pearl Wannabe.