A few weeks ago, Bart and I were at school, chatting with some friends of his from the business school. One of them had just started a blog, and we got talking about blogging in general. The topic of private blogs came up, to which Bart and I immediately expressed our vehement disinterest in having private blogs (although, of course,…
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April Madness
I do not care one bit about March Madness (let the stone throwing begin). But when School Library Journal hosts a Children/YA book tournament where you can fill out a bracket? I’m there. I’m all there. (You can view the bracket in PDF form). All the books are from last year (generally ones that were pretty popular), and the judging…
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Introverted
My freshman year at BYU, I took the Myers Briggs test and it labeled me an INTJ. The “I” is for Introvert, and multiple people told me there was just absolutely no way I was an introvert. I, however, was not surprised at all. I would have been utterly shocked (and disregarded the results altogether) if it had labeled me…
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Far more than you wanted to know about TLA
I came back to our hotel last night with 21 books, and I thought, “How can today possibly be better?” (This is 20 books because I forgot to lay out “Tales from Outer Suburbia” by Shaun Tan which I’m WAY excited about).But today was even better. I went to some excellent panels with my supervising librarian, and then the Lone…
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TLA and Interview
I am in Houston at TLA and it is everything I dreamed and more. I cannot even talk about it without going into wild-eyed and arm-flailing raptures. It is like trick-or-treating for book nerds – I came back to the hotel with three bags of free books. Brand-new, haven’t even been released books. They are, understandably, covered in drool. In…
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