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Tracie’s Top 10 of 2006
Being the best things I read in 2006 that had a 2006 publication date:

Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (a young adult “fable” that adults shouldn’t miss)
Going, K.L. Saint Iggy (young adult fiction)
Han, Jenny. Shug (youth fiction)
Holm, Jennifer. Penny From Heaven (youth fiction)
Holt, Kimberly Willis.  ( Read more... )

"The brand new Delay the Real World Fellowship ( Read more... )

I love you too, Mr. Vonnegut.

Would anyone like
my old job? After five

very.long.years
of answering phones
and making library cards,

the public library has finally
decided to promote me
to Reader's Services.

Whee. Whee. Whee.

Blueberry Crumble Pie

5 cups fresh blueberries, rinsed-picked over-and-patted dry

1 9-inch prepared graham cracker crust
     or 10 graham crackers and 1/4 cup maple syrup ( Read more... )

For $16.95 (plus shipping and handling, where applicable),
you can officially shelf me (in ANTHOLOGY FORM!)
in your very own personal library.
So...um...please buy "my" book?

please?

prettyplease?

I got a ticket to this today, thanks to Caleb & Sam Rios for the extremely persuasive propaganda:

Iron & Wine with Azita and Lang Try ( Read more... )

Happy National Library Week!

The Shins are playing two shows here in June! I got a ticket to the one on the 19th at the House of Blues. Has anyone else made plans to be there? Would anyone else like to make plans to be there? Would anyone like to make plans to be there with me? (Would it help if I offered bribes of homemade fresh-baked edible things?)

My mum is a second-grade teacher. ( This is what her students learned today. )