tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61614059280341058382024-02-20T23:21:54.713-05:00Booklady SpeaksThoughts on reading and happenings in school librariesbookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.comBlogger228125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-56181435841633318582017-04-03T12:44:00.004-04:002017-04-03T12:46:49.747-04:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">May just have to do it with my grands!!!!</span>bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-10485124510045356732014-02-10T10:04:00.002-05:002014-02-10T10:04:38.715-05:00World Book Night Giver !!!!!!!!Thrilled to be selected as a World Book Night Giver for the second year. My title Bridge to Terabithia. My target recipients...students athletes at the local sportsplex.<br />
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bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-46800391518672231312013-12-05T11:00:00.000-05:002013-12-05T11:01:36.931-05:00In the Bleak Midwinter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-5519027688437828992013-11-27T19:56:00.000-05:002013-11-27T19:56:04.112-05:00Librarian Quote<span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">And she was wonderfully unhinged.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898f9c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Gary Paulsen, Mudshark<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-81847583060728783672013-11-01T16:55:00.000-04:002013-11-01T16:55:33.007-04:002014 Book Night Giver Application CHECK I completed my giver application today for World Book Night 2014. <br />
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My target recipients are athletes at the junior high level at the ball fields, tennis courts, and swimming pool.</div>
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There is a story behind choice #1 that goes back about 30 years. </div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Perks of Being a Wallflower</em> by Stephen Chbosky</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">After the Funeral</em> by Agatha Christie</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Ruins of Gorlan: The Ranger's Apprentice, Book 1</em> by John Flanagan</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet</em> by Jamie Ford</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet</em> (Large Print edition) by Jamie Ford</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lighthouse Road</em> by Peter Geye</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Tipping Point</em> by Malcolm Gladwell</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wait Till Next Year</em> by Doris Kearns Goodwin</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Catch-22</em> by Joseph Heller</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Dog Stars</em> by Peter Heller</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pontoon</em> by Garrison Keillor</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Same Difference</em> by Derek Kirk Kim</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Enchanted</em> by Alethea Kontis</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Miss Darcy Falls in Love</em> by Sharon Lathan</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Waiting to Exhale</em> by Terry McMillan</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sunrise Over Fallujah</em> by Walter Dean Myers</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bridge to Terabithia</em> by Katherine Paterson</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Botany of Desire</em> by Michael Pollan</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When I was Puerto Rican</em> by Esmeralda Santiago</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cuando Era Puertorriqueña</em> by Esmeralda Santiago</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Where’d You Go, Bernadette</em> by Maria Semple</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Where’d You Go, Bernadette</em> (Large Print edition) by Maria Semple</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wild</em> by Cheryl Strayed</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Presumed Innocent</em> by Scott Turow</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Code Name Verity</em> by Elizabeth Wein</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This Boy’s Life</em> by Tobias Wolff</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">100 Best-Loved Poems</em> edited by Philip Smith</div>
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bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-37095715552799647772013-10-17T08:45:00.001-04:002013-10-17T08:45:31.519-04:00Wow, Neil Gaiman!! You are the best!!!!!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The very day I was dis-ing Neil Gaiman's book The Ocean at the End of the Lane, he was standing up for reading and libraries at t<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">he Barbican in London. The Reading Agency's annual lecture series was initiated in 2012 as a platform for leading writers and thinkers to share original, challenging ideas about reading and libraries.</span></span><br />
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bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-32899452750591398642013-10-14T08:33:00.002-04:002013-10-14T17:17:39.246-04:00Neil Gaiman<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOF6sKi66B5Xy4Xe1oi_X6k_x1LBuEf3bNO-DG_woNC5Mcm42WiUS8Lxjl6kZfDOgQDZIgIGBZqBCr94sCMOMGKIpqqnxor41Itvk0rJT0Hn7TPDC63rwPmdP02FfB3YlAFNxRj6Pmk8yK/s1600/Ocean.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOF6sKi66B5Xy4Xe1oi_X6k_x1LBuEf3bNO-DG_woNC5Mcm42WiUS8Lxjl6kZfDOgQDZIgIGBZqBCr94sCMOMGKIpqqnxor41Itvk0rJT0Hn7TPDC63rwPmdP02FfB3YlAFNxRj6Pmk8yK/s320/Ocean.jpg" width="213" /></a><br />
I have just finished Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Whoa...he is dark. Previously I read The Graveyard Book and American Gods. I liked the premise of American Gods. Reminded me of the way Mt. Olympus had moved to America in the Percy Jackson series. And The Graveyard Book was a Newbery Winner. This most recent book is written for adults, but it was very troubling to me. What sort of mind creates these works? I liked the <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hempstock</span></span> women. Interesting characters. I did not very much like the narrator, main character. When I finished I sought out some reviews to see if my take was the same of others...probably not.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2013/06/29/book-review-the-ocean-the-end-the-lane-neil-gaiman/4mcI42A6E2VOXpKPWZlcPJ/story.html" target="_blank">http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2013/06/29/book-review-the-ocean-the-end-the-lane-neil-gaiman/4mcI42A6E2VOXpKPWZlcPJ/story.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/06/17/191346480/a-deceptively-simple-tale-of-magic-and-peril-in-ocean">http://www.npr.org/2013/06/17/191346480/a-deceptively-simple-tale-of-magic-and-peril-in-ocean</a><br />
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<br />bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-52942625390876206442013-10-11T15:55:00.001-04:002013-10-11T15:55:39.429-04:00Quotation 13 from my Book of Quotes<h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">"Still later I learned that grace has a timing of its own. You're never prepared for it, and you must always prepare for it"</span></h4>
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from All About Women<br />
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<br />bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-21313347201017827272013-10-06T12:38:00.002-04:002013-10-06T12:38:17.093-04:00Date a Girl who TeachesVisit this blog by Audrey<br />
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<br />bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-77980805463828281502013-09-17T09:47:00.002-04:002013-09-17T09:47:45.133-04:00Sage Advice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-91130924949851362312013-09-04T09:30:00.000-04:002013-09-04T09:30:39.844-04:00Quotation 12 from my book of Quotes"It is only when we are fully rooted that we are really able to move."<br />
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bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-12049378333865498462013-08-27T13:10:00.004-04:002013-08-27T13:11:26.240-04:00A Responsible Borrower<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-42859413456979008302013-08-24T17:58:00.001-04:002013-08-24T17:58:07.926-04:00Quote 11 from my Book of Quotes<br />
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bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-12392679230513328972013-07-19T08:56:00.000-04:002013-07-19T08:57:40.368-04:00T Shirt for the Betterment of the World!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-53214552649018034932013-07-10T20:14:00.000-04:002013-07-16T16:32:18.011-04:00Summer Reading at the BeachREADERS ABOUND AT ST GEORGE ISLAND<br />
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Emperor of All Maladies. A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjer<br />
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The Iron King by Julie Kagawabookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-3764270067340168572013-07-05T06:20:00.001-04:002013-07-05T06:20:20.958-04:00Getting Ready for Beach Reading<h3>
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Julia's Chocolates <br />
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The Iron King<br />
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A friend called and said "you've got to read this Laura Bush biography, we could have written it." NOT!! Just because we are both only children, born in the early 50's, with many of the same early life experiences (and also the fact that I am a retired librarian) does not make me capable of penning this book. Once they begin campaigning for George H. W. Bush they are out of my league. <br />
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I learned a lot about Mrs. Bush, the White House, the duties of the first lady, her role in promoting her special causes....books, National Book Festival, women's rights around the world, her passion for Africa and Afghanistan women, rebuilding of schools and libraries post Katrina, her friendships, building of their ranch in Texas, the compassion for post 9-11 victims by both President Bush and Laura and her love of family. I was especially touched by the story of the Burmese refugees in Thailand who were living in refugee camps for the 2nd generation, however, it may be because that particular story was near the end, I saw light at the end of the tunnel, could pay more attention and not worry how many more names, acronyms, meetings, summits, friends were left.<br />
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<br />bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-21368800825000404052013-05-30T09:46:00.001-04:002013-05-30T09:48:21.778-04:00Links for Book LoversDiscovered a neat link yesterday due to a post on the librarian's list serv. <br />
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A used book dealer blogs about bookmarks found in the old books he purchases. <br />
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People caught reading on the subway in New York. Their books are identified too.<br />
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And for you librarians, Barbara Braxton of Australia does a fantastic job of discussing ways to make you and your job indispensible to your school and your patrons.<br />
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<br />bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-2955304997215145852013-05-21T07:37:00.000-04:002013-05-31T06:27:06.242-04:00Tornado Devastates Moore, OklahomaA terrifying nightmare. Details still being sorted. A direct hit on an elementary school. Lives lost, homes obliterated.<br />
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<strong>Alas, alas O God, how shall we pray when mayhem and destruction fly down from the sky? In our humanity we live in your creation with the power of storms and the seeming capriciousness of their path. With the disciples we cry out "Master, do you not care that we perish?" O God help those in the aftermath of the terrible storm, the traumatized, the grieving, the injured, the devastated. Reveal the power of your love to help and to heal in the midst of catastrophe. Speak your Word of hope and promise of resurrection in the face of death and loss. Holy Spirit, bring order from chaos, hold the broken together, give energy and strength, clarity and unity, to rescue and emergency workers, physicians and nurses, leaders and citizens. Have mercy on them O God who loves this world: children, families, friends and neighbors who know such great pain and whose hearts and homes are certainly shattered. For we pray in the name of Jesus Christ, who stilled the storm, had compassion on the suffering, and rose from the dead. Amen.</strong> <strong></strong> I don't know the author, but I do know the One to whom it is prayed. bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-85478545425986573232013-05-16T09:25:00.005-04:002013-05-16T09:25:52.741-04:00Haywood Smith Laughing My Way Through Her New Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you’ve ever struggled with a health insurance claim, you’ll love Haywood Smith’s witty send-up of the health insurance industry, the drug companies, the medical profession, and falling apart ten years before Medicare. From the beloved author of The Red Hat Club and Wife-in-Law, Out of Warranty is a witty story of two lonely misfits who find exactly what they need in the most unlikely of situations, with a bonus of humor and heart.</div>
“If you have anything weird wrong with you in this country, you’d better be Canadian.” <br />
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So says widowed Cassie Jones when, after being written off by countless doctors, she finally finds one who diagnoses her with a rare genetic form of arthritis. The condition is manageable, but not curable, and a new diagnosis, so her health insurance refuses to pay for most of her expensive medications and treatment. So widowed Cassie, still grieving for the love of her life and facing destitution because of her medical bills, decides she has to remarry for better health coverage. Enter one-legged hermit and curmudgeon Jack Wilson, on the same appointment schedule at their specialist’s, who’s rude and obnoxious, but eventually tries to help by setting up e-dating for Cassie. After a hilarious round of fix-ups and e-dating, Cassie’s left with no hope and no prospects. <br />
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With her trademark humor and sass, Haywood brings these two characters to life in an unlikely grown-up relationship that transcends their medical problems and will leave readers smiling long after the last page is turned.bookladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185533590807509930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161405928034105838.post-71516187025279296542013-04-30T05:41:00.000-04:002013-05-31T06:28:54.658-04:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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