Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Can’t wait to get to Chicago for ALA 2013? Here are the Top 40 Chicago Novels by Chicago Magazine.

Can’t wait to get to Chicago for ALA 2013? Here are the Top 40 Chicago Novels by Chicago Magazine.

Friday, March 15, 2013
Celebrate the Ides of March with this stellar biography of one bad ass lady. One of my favorites.

Celebrate the Ides of March with this stellar biography of one bad ass lady. One of my favorites.

Sunday, March 10, 2013
Children don’t read ‘genres’; they read stories. Below a certain age, they don’t distinguish between ‘true’ and ‘not true,’ because they see no reason that a white rabbit shouldn’t possess a pocket watch, that whales shouldn’t talk, or that sentient beings shouldn’t live on other planets and travel in spaceships. Science-fiction tropes aren’t read as ‘science fiction’; they’re read as fiction. And fiction is read as reality. And sometimes reality lives under the bed and has very large teeth, and it’s no use pretending otherwise. Margaret Atwood, The New Yorker, June 4 & 11, 2012 (via electronicsquid)

Love this.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

teachingliteracy:

A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.

The bravest woman on Earth.

Love this graphic and the story.

(Source: sigfodr)

Friday, March 1, 2013
I’ll be reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf. What book will you be reading?

I’ll be reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf. What book will you be reading?

Tuesday, February 26, 2013
To the person who “corrected” this library book,
I will be erasing every single mark.
Sincerely, An Ever Diligent Librarian

To the person who “corrected” this library book,

I will be erasing every single mark.

Sincerely, An Ever Diligent Librarian

Friday, February 22, 2013

From exploring the sins of the papacy and the cover up of sexual abuse to exploring faith and finding it in cloistered nuns here are six books on Catholicism.  And one fiction book for when you need a bit of a break from all this heavy theological stuff—Dame Frevisse a medieval, crime solving nun.  

From the top, left to right:  

Papal Sin and Why Priests : A Failed Tradition by Gary Wills.  Gary Wills is one of the most outspoken and educated critiques of the Catholic Church, and a Catholic himself.  

The Novice’s Tale by Margaret Frazer (a little fiction mystery in all this nonfiction.)  Stalking the Divine by Kristin Ohlson—one of my very favorite books.  An exploration of faith without a travel to India, how refreshing.  

Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich, a classic that is worth the effort of reading it.  Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son by Peter Manseau.  I think the title is self explanatory.   

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Anyone else on Riffle?

I just got an invitation.  Super excited, I think.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013