It’s Banned Books Week! September 22 – 28 is Banned Books Week. To help spread awareness of frequently banned young adult books, I’ve created a LibraryThing book widget of titles. Feel free to copy the […]
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2018 Reading Challenges and Book Lists
So many lists, so many challenges, so little time. Here’s a list of challenges and interesting reads for the coming year. Why not pick some themes, prompts, or specific books and share your personal challenge […]
Booklist widget – titles from those sh*thole countries
I love that so many librarians and booksellers reacted to the vile words and hate spewed by the US President this past week by pulling together lists and displays promoting the amazing literature about and/or […]
Update to Books for Kids: Empathy, Diversity and the Immigrant Experience
Earlier this year I put together a web site widget called Books for Kids: Empathy, Diversity and the Immigrant Experience that anyone can embed on their own websites. (see details on that earlier blog post) The […]
Books for Kids: Empathy, Diversity and the Immigrant Experience
In the past months, many organizations have published lists of YA and kids books focused on diversity, understanding the immigrant experience and developing empathy. For a project I’m working on, I merged a selection of […]
Powerful Book Lists & Handy Library Extension for Chrome
One response to the political chaos of the last few weeks has been the publication of many wonderful lists of books that encourage reading more diversely. The four lists below focus on works that celebrate […]
New York State Children’s Choice Book Award is Back!
After a 2 year hiatus, the New York State 3 Apples Book Award is back! Started in 2007 by the school library and youth services sections of the New York Library Association, the award celebrates […]
President Obama’s Book Lists
Thanks Obama! Recently, the NYTimes published two wonderful pieces sharing how important reading has always been to President Obama. Obama’s Secret to Surviving the White House Years: Books Transcript: President Obama on What Books Mean […]
Book Riot’s 2017 Read Harder Book Challenge
BookRiot has posted it’s 3rd annual Read Harder Challenge. A list of 24 reading tasks to challenge you through the year. Read a book for each task or use a single book to meet multiple […]
Amazon pulls the plug on Lendle.me
UPDATE – 3/23/2011- Lendle.me is back up! Hooray. Lendle.me, one of the new and very popular ebook lending services, was shut down today. Amazon has pulled the plug on them. The API that connects them […]
Kindle & Nook Book Lending
When Amazon added the ability to loan some purchased Kindle ebooks, I knew it wouldn’t be long before we saw some new services to help people borrow & lend titles. A month later, there are […]
Night Owls
What a great idea! Night Owls - Cuyahoga County (OH) Public Library’s after-hours book discussion is held on Thursday evenings in the Notes section of their Facebook page. There were about a dozen folks there […]