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Questions about your reading habits!

Here's a quick survey I took about my reading habits, I'd love to hear your answers to these questions! Leave yours in the comments or email them to me and I'll post it here! Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack? Sometimes, I usually eat breakfast while I read in the morning. If I can use a meal as an excuse to read I will. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you? If they are mine I usually don’t hesitate to make notes if I really love the book. My copy of Jane Eyre is all marked up! I also like finding notes in other books, it’s fun to see what people are thinking as they read. Might sound odd, but it’s a totally different thing then someone defacing a book. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open? Like Nicola, whatever is lying around, though I am guilty of laying a book upside down *gasp* Fiction, Non-fiction, or both? Mostly fiction. I find m

Teen Read Week

It's that time again! Teen Read Week 2009! This year's theme is "Read Beyond Reality," so I'm going to be highlighting fantasy and science fiction books this week with reviews posted here by me and some of you teens. I also be displaying some of my favorites in the YA area. Also, I'm thinking of having a CONTEST! So, each person that writes me a quick review (3 sentences at least!) in the comments about a book they've enjoyed recently gets a PRIZE! Be sure to sign your name! DFTBA, Sti

Blog changes and New Moon spoofs

You'll probably notice that I've made some changes to the blog. Hopefully these changes will provide you with some extra info while you're here (see the Upcoming Programs list up there?). I also put up a slideshow of pictures from our programs and a few more things. Hope you like them! Also. Remember this hilarious Twilight spoof? Well, the lovely Anjali pointed me to the New Moon spoof by the same people: Which do you like better?

Betsy-Tacy

I'm back again! Here's a great article by the ever-wonderful Meg Cabot about one of my favorite series the Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace: What Little Girls are Made Of p.s. Some of my favorite parts of these books were their beautiful illustrations, here are couple.

Happy Banned Book Week!

Thanks for everyone who took part in our Banned Book Week debate at the TAG meeting on Tuesday, though you probably all know my opinions on the subject, it was great to hear your opinions and I'm glad we were able to discuss them in a respectful way. :) As this week draws to a close, I wanted to post a link to one of the greatest explanations I've read about why libraries do not (and should not) remove/ban books that are challenged. If you don't want to read it, that's cool but here it is: Letter to a Concerned Patron And I really wish I'd found this website earlier: http://bannedbooksweek.org/index.html Next year I'll be more prepared! And of course this really interesting map of reported book challenges across the country: http://bannedbooksweek.org/Mapofbookcensorship.html from 2007-2009, but these are only the ones reported to the American Library Association. Hope everyone has a great weekend!