My review of the last in Holly Black's modern fantasy noir series, Black Heart is here:
http://alibrarymama.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/black-heart/
Enjoy!

Today's post features a pirate picture book:

http://alibrarymama.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/victricia-malicia-book-loving-buccaneer/

A review of a fun early chapter book, The Secret Chicken Society, is up on my Wordpress site: http://alibrarymama.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/the-secret-chicken-society/

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There was a day, about two weeks ago, when I finished a book and had no new library books waiting for me to read. Not one. In a panic, I went to the new fiction shelves at the library and took several youth fantasy books. I paid special attention when reading my journals and blogs and put lots of titles on hold, because I had nothing at home ( Read more... )

This is one I’d been meaning to read for a while, and only put an actual hold on it when I flipped through the newly published sequel on our backroom new book shelf.

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The year I lived in Germany, I thought I’d try to learn a language that I couldn’t learn back home in the states. I picked Czech. (I’ve since regretted not taking Mittelhochdeutsch, or medieval German, which would have been useful for my early music performing.) I didn’t make much headway with Czech, though I made some of my best friends there ( Read more... )

“Did you want to read this?” I asked my love, waving this as part of a stack of library books I was done with. I of course was on the hold list as soon as it was in the library catalog system, because I am in love with Raina Telgemeier, as I’ve mentioned before ( Read more... )