What Happens If You Flip The Gender Of Book Covers?
Yesterday, author Maureen Johnson had a great idea. She tweeted “I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, “Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can read it. - signed, A Guy” - and so came the idea for a challenge for her 77,000 followers. A challenge that she called Coverflip.
Super cool idea; really terrible A Game of Thrones cover.
North Carolina is my home state, as a reasonable person and a librarian I am extraordinarily proud of these historians. You can read the entire story at the News & Observer.
I think I’ve mentioned this before, it’s THE Southern short story. Read it.
Social Media: Libraries Are Posting, but Is Anyone Listening?
This is about Facebook but its still very good.
(via libraryjournal)
Love My Library Job
Because…
Yesterday I got to make Mother’s Day flowers out of tissue paper with my afterschool kids—and even the boys were really into it.
Two words—Net Galley.
Little kid hugs for no reason.
Hearing, “I told you librarians know everything.”
Conferences. Librarians know how to party.
One of the things that I love about Science Fiction and Fantasy is the platform it provides for the author to explore difficult issues. In this book Kessel explores gender dynamics while telling great stories and keeping the reader entertained. I’d recommend it even for non sci-fi fans.
If you have stayed away from YA fantasy written by women because of all that glittery vampire crap—rejoice because Holly Black writes dark, frightening and kick-ass fantasy for teens and adults alike. Start here with her short stories.
The Secret Museum: The treasures too fragile or too precious to go on display
nypl:
NYPL is featured in a new book by Molly Oldfield called The Secret Museum, which highlights fascinating some fascinating objects located in “museums” around the world… including Charles Dickens very intriguing letter opener, which is in NYPL’s Berg Collection. Read all about it!
Writer Molly Oldfield has delved into the vast collections of objects stored away and rarely exhibitedSecrets from inside the museum vault…
Volunteer of the month for my LGBT family story times!
PLEASE REBLOG/LIKE THIS POST IF YOU’RE A BOOK BLOG
I get tons and tons of requests to be added to my book blog link list (which I updated hugely today). I try my best to consistently add book blogs as I find them and/or are directed to them, but MAN there are a lot of us! So please, please reblog/like this so I can do my best to both catalogue and follow (I follow with my personal blog, hangonsilvergirl) all the blogs in our little neck of the Tumblr woods. If you don’t have a book blog list on your own Tumblr but would like to direct people, feel free to use mine as a master list of sorts; you’re welcome to save or direct link the pre-made banners posted above (click on the photo and you should be able to copy and paste the link into your browser).
I’m also happy to link to/share book blogs and vlogs outside of Tumblr! Pop a note in my ask box and we can go from there. :)
Thank you!
