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The other day, my mother sent me an e-mail asking if I was a member of Shelfari. I’d never heard of it. Apparently, it is another place to log in and share your library. I told her I am on Librarything. And if I… Continue Reading “Online Community Fatigue”
I very much believe that you can learn a ton about a person by looking at his library. Or at least you learn enough to wonder. I have talked about a box of books at the library spinning my imagination in circles and it… Continue Reading “Other People’s Libraries”
As many of you know, it is Banned Book Week. The American Library Association has lots of stuff about it on its website. My personal opinion is that banning books is just silly, kind of like protesting movies. Having said that, I rather think… Continue Reading “Banned Book Week”
In doing some online research, I found this website, Book Sale Finder. I really did not need to know that there are six big book sales going on within an hour of my house this weekend. I already buy way. More. Books. Than I… Continue Reading “I Didn’t Need to See This”
The Chicago Tribune had an article about a Michigan library assistant that was fired for writing a fictional tell-all about her weird patrons. Here is an exerpt from the introduction: “After working at a public library in a small, rural Midwestern town (which I… Continue Reading “Fired Librarian”
Among the websites I require to function is the fabulous LibraryThing. This tool allows me to catalog all of the books in my own library. I haven’t begun to effectively use all of the functions, but look at that little widget to the right!… Continue Reading “LibraryThing”
I’ve always had a weird fascination with Russia, the way my father always had a weird fascination with China. It started in high school, when I was trying to cram in academic courses in order to graduate early. There was a semester long Russian… Continue Reading “Solzhenitsyn”
A customer at the Library Book Store asked me last night whether I read more than one book at a time. “Absolutely,” I told her. “Just different books for different moods,” she commented. Not really. I have a book in my bedroom (and three-half… Continue Reading “How We Read”
The Next Dark Age 