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But only three fiction titles I'd consider grown-up:

Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
I read this on the bus/train to and from work every day for about two months, and I really liked it.  Of course I wanted to beat Florentino for his obsessive love of Fermina, but lost such urges toward the end.  He doesn't exactly save himself ( Read more... )

Just when you thought I was all read-out from all those other books I talked about, wait 'til you read this:

Mock Newbery at work:

• Bird Lake Moon (Kevin Henkes)
• Chains (Laurie Halse Anderson)
• My One Hundred Adventures (Polly Horvath)
• Savvy (Ingrid Law)
• The Willoughbys (Lois Lowry)

Much to the world's surprise, I have read a lot of books this year!  It's a part of my job these days, and a lot for  me is at least a book a month.  Remember, I haven't done this "reading for pleasure" thing since elementary school, aside from one or two random titles here and there when I was putting off reading something for SLIS.   So, for your ( Read more... )

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Last night as I was getting ready to go to bed, I walked into my living room, channel turned to ABC.  A late night rerun of the day's earlier Oprah episode began.  The topic?  Oprah reunites the surviving cast of the Mary Tyler Moore Show.  I had to laugh, and watch.  Here's some more info from the Oprah site.

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At my Chicago librarian family Thanksgiving, one of the guys from my building handed out business cards with a Web address on them.  He explained that he was growing a mustache for children in the city of Chicago.  We should look up the address and find out more.  It's a fun fundraiser.

I looked today at his site and donated a few dollars.  I'm not ( Read more... )