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book review monday 8/30/10

Go here to read librarian Nancy Pearl’s most recent feature on NPR talking about good books to read. She’s so well-read and so articulate and so enthusiastic, my to-read pile gets longer just listening to her.

And you can follow her on Twitter.

And, glory of glories, she has a blog. And it’s got an [...]

random friday 8/27/10

In a comment posted to my Facebook page on August 5th, Debra Eisert writes, “As a former collection development librarian (i.e., I bought the fiction for a county library. cool job, huh?) let me say that patron requests are very closely looked at. If you have friends that also like Kate, have them request the [...]

book review monday 8/23/10

Patrick at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego is my connection for good fantasy and good science fiction. This year he got me hooked on military sf, space operas, the kind of novels that span light years as well as decades, where fates of galactic empires hang in the balance and it all comes down [...]