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Giving Book Reviewers Their Due: RUSA Seeks Nominees for Louis Shores Award
The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association, is seeking nominees for the Louis Shores Award, which recognizes an individual reviewer, editor,...
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Humiliation Can Be Good for a Book Group
David Lodge’s classic campus comedy, Changing Places (1975), introduced a game called Humiliation, which readers have been playing to their red-faced delight ever since. Players get together in a group...
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Drama in Levittown: An Inspirational Theater Story from the Suburbs
When one individual really cares, amazing things can happen in the most unlikely places. That’s one of the great messages in Michael Sokolove’s Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant...
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Web Crush: Genrify
Genrify is a useful blog that celebrates great literary mash-ups that may have tricky genre labels, and helps readers and librarians find more of the same. The blog features reviews, feature blends...
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Dewey Know How to Run a Book Group? We Do! 350-400, Part 2
Last week I shared some of the reading suggestions from the 350–400 range of the Dewey system that members of the Williamsburg Regional Library staff group brought to a recent meeting. This is the...
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Ghosh and Golly: All Asea over Sea of Poppies
It’s just like Gilligan’s Island, but the passengers are indentured servants and the tour is longer than three hours. Imagine if Eliza Bennett went to India with her parents and got orphaned there....
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The Read ‘n Rave Report: 65 Books That Should Be on Your Radar
Booklist and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) debuted a new program at this year’s Annual conference: Read n’ Rave. Modeled after the popular Shout n’ Share panels that take place at the...
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Readers’ Advisory with the Wheel o’ Fun
Cindy: Last week I found this gem in a local, artsy thrift shop. The bright colors attracted me like a hummingbird to a flower, and I couldn’t resist giving it a spin and listen to the clicking slow...
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Got the Readers’ Advisory Blues? The Doctors Are In!
Readers’ advisory is a key part of librarianship, and yet the topic remains intimidating to many librarians. In a recent Booklist webinar, Robin Nesbitt, Manager of the Hilliard Branch at Columbus...
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Bibliotherapy: Do Books Have the Power to Heal?
There’s a unique form of therapy at The School of Life in London (the subject of a recent NPR segment)—it’s called “bibliotherapy.” Through one-on-one sessions, a bibliotherapist creates a reading list...
View ArticleGood Sports
Yes, the World Cup is pretty exciting. Wimbledon, too. And how about golf phenoms Lucy Li and Michelle Wie? No denying it, it’s a good week to be a sports fan. But let’s not forget the little guys. The...
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Web Crush of the Week: Lee Goldberg
Author and TV producer Lee Goldberg offers a unique perspective on mysteries of page and screen. He’s written scripts for and/or produced such hits as Spenser: For Hire. Diagnosis Murder, Nero Wolfe,...
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Road Trip
The 4th of July is a time when we reflect on our nation’s history. The rest of the summer, we focus on its breadth–making the most of long days, no school, and our beautiful lakes, streams, and oceans....
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For Fans of Factory Man
Subtitled “How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local–and Helped Save an American Town,” Beth Macy’s Factory Man is one of the most buzzed about books this summer. In addition to Macy’s...
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Not Happily Ever After
When our best writers imagine a new society, it’s rarely filled with happy people, flying cars and Jetsons-style yummy food packs. No, these near futures or imagined places often emerge as the result...
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Web Crush of the Week: Bustle
Bustle is a pretty great website/brand/online presence that is, as they say, “for and by women who are moving forward as fast as you are.” Less snark than Jezebel more meat than The Mary Sue (both of...
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Do You Have a Feel for Steel?
If you include her children’s books, Danielle Steel has over 100 books to her credit. She has been delighting, and indeed creating, fans of women’s fiction for five decades. With a fan base like that,...
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Secrets and Lies
Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies is burning up the charts. Fans of Moriarty’s smart, suspenseful women’s fiction may enjoy these other engaging domestic dramas. The Stepmother by Carrie Adams Tara Road...
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Web Crush of the Week: Tales from the RAT Queen
No, she’s not actually a rodent (she’s really a quite nice librarian). Lucy Lockley, Booklist Editorial Board member and collection development manager for the St. Charles City-County Library District...
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The Wish Bookshelf: Teaching Kids That Their Libraries Can Provide for Them
Cindy: When I was a kid, long before the Black Friday stampedes of today, I couldn’t wait for the Sears Wish Book to arrive in the mail. My brother and I grabbed notebook paper and stretched out on the...
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