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New idea for a blog
New idea for a blog: circulation assistant who enjoys talking about the books she checks in and out every day. I have no idea if anyone would find my opinions of books interesting: I'm mainly writing for me. Last fall, after the library hired me, I began keeping a list of good-looking children's books for my mother, who says she's going to start reading books to little kids somewhere, as soon as she's settled into her new apartment. The list mushroomed right away.
Can I start a blog this way? I'd love to keep notes on the books I see every day. For instance, today someone returned Jenny and the Cat Club, a book my grandmother used to read to me. So dear to my heart, little black cat Jenny with her red scarf and silver ice skates, and her wonderful friends. I'm overjoyed that someone is still reading it!
Also, a really funny edition of Frankenstein: Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds. Worrisome, isn't it, to think that someone seems to want to encourage scientists to...um...duplicate Frankenstein's research? Not sure if that is what is intended by the title.
Just read an adorable book called It Came in the Mail. Little boy loves getting mail, so he writes a letter to the mailbox asking it to send him things. The first thing that arrives is a dragon. All the art is letter/postcard art, with appropriate and adapted post office stamps: "oversize" on the elephant, and "pearishable" on a giant pear.
Every day I'm amazed at the dazzling and creative art used in children's books. Yesterday I read a sweet Native American myth, called The Girl Who Loved Horses, a Caldecott winner from 1978 by Paul Goble. His Native American-style art is colorful and gorgeous, and sweeps across the pages in a way that suggests wild mustangs in motion.
The popularity of graphic novels has freed both adult and children's book authors from the either/or of "text" or "picture book". I nabbed a book today that I'd like to read called Trial by Jury Journal. I opened it to find that the story is told by all kinds of print media - the usual paragraphs, letters, newspaper articles, etc. I love creative flights like this. It reminds me of that beautiful series of books done as letters and postcards: Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine romance. I love the zing I get when I can connect two authors and think, I wonder if the older book(s) had an influence on the newer ones? Did Bantock's books pave the way for others of this type?
Update on Trial by Jury Journal: Good but not great. Kids will probably appreciate the character name puns more than I did - over several pages it wears a little thin (e.g., Anna Conda, Rhett Tyle). Still, the narration style keeps switching, which both keeps it interesting and develops individual characters. However, I think she could've gone further with the character development. They're not flat, but they don't have a full three dimensions. Still love the pen-and-ink art, reminiscent of Joseph Schindelman's original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Lemony Snickett.
Then there's Kaz Windness's If Ur Stabby, about a psycho anti-unicorn. Definitely NOT for kids under 12. A nice old man handed me the book the other day because (I think) his granddaughter had pulled it off the (presumably) adult graphic novel shelf, and he thought it might not be for children. Which it is NOT. However, the dark (one might say sick) humor of a depressed unicorn depicted largely in black and white is pretty funny if you've had a little too much princess literature, or the Pinkalicious series, come across your desk.
Just did a deeper dive into Stabby, who is apparently a graduate of Mother Goth Rhymes, which I can't put on hold right now because I have too many other books out that are overdue. (Just can't get myself to read enough. Very frustrating.) Fascinating stuff, though - "Stabby the Unicorn" is a meme, and apparently a game - "Unstable Unicorns", which would be a great name for a band, don't you think? But the game - "a strategic card game that will destroy your friendships" - is a little to manga for my taste. Even though they're "unstable", they're too cute and marshmallowy. More on that some other time, I think. Stabby is not manga. Original artwork - lots of curly, swirly letters and piles of skulls.
On a more serious, but still dark, note, I saw a book today entitled The Midwife of Auschwitz. My first reaction was YOW, this sounds horribly depressing. I was intrigued enough to read the blurb on the back, and it depicts exactly the story you'd expect of the title. However, I expect it would be an interesting take on the Holocaust, if you're in the right frame of mind. It turns out that among the atrocities the Nazis committed at the camps, they took the most Aryan-looking babies and gave them to German couples wanting children. Just like the Irish nuns and the evil folks in Before We Were Yours did.
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Thirty books, the most important genre
Thirty books to success. Historical fiction is the most important genre...lessons from the HNSNA conference.
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A veces los problemas se parecen a un trozo de hilo: si das demasiadas vueltas se enmarañan y se enredan. No entiendes el motivo ni sabes cómo desenredarlos, pero tampoco puedes dejarlos cómo están.
El libro de los amigos perdidos (Lisa Wingate)
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"A woman’s past need not predict her future."
Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
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All are welcome to the next 2nd Tuesday Book Club meeting tomorrow, December 13, 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. PDT!
We'll be discussing "The Book of Lost Friends" by Lisa Wingate on Zoom and upstairs in the Library Board Room.
Email [email protected] for more info.
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Review: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Review: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
It took me a while to figure out who was who. And until that lightbulb went off over my head, I found the story boring. Suddenly, there was the clue, and it all fit together. My biggest problem was not reading to see if I was right. That need to know for sure seemed to pull me more than the plot or characters.
Still, in the end, I was…
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Books of 2022 #28
Before and After by Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate
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A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We’re always trying to persuade ourselves of things.
Lisa Wingate
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Fear builds walls instead of bridges. I want a life of bridges, not walls.
Lisa Wingate,
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@pscentral gift exchange: for @ririvilliams ♡
Edwina Sharma & Kathani Sharma, a tribute to sisterhood (insp)
Krystal Sutherland (x) / Rupi Kaur (x) / 3) Lisa Wingate (x)
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The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
Lisa Wingate
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Autumn Colors spotted in the library for the JOMP BPC.
Books Featured
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
The Sea Keeper’s Daughter by Lisa Wingate
When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman
Run by Douglas E. Winter
The American Agent by Jaqueline Winspear
The Cartel by Don Winslow
Security by Gina Wohlsdorf
The Family Tabor by Cherise Wolas
The Executive by Dick Wolf
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Hay un proverbio que dice: Morimos por primera vez cuando exhalamos nuestro último suspiro. Y volvemos a morir cuando se pronuncia nuestro nombre por última vez. Somos incapaces de controlar la primera muerte, pero podemos intentar evitar la segunda.
El libro de los amigos perdidos (Lisa Wingate)
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What does a lighthouse do? I ask myself. It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash into the ocean to rescue the foundering ship. It cannot calm the waters or clear the shoals. It can only cast light into the darkness. It can only point the way. Yet, through one lighthouse, you guide many ships.
Lisa Wingate
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The music of old age is difficult to hear when it’s playing for someone you love.
Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
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