Wait, you may be thinking, MARCH is National Craft Month! What are you thinking? Here’s the reasoning: MAY has always been the craziest month for me scheduling-wise in the public library sphere. In May, I’ve always been pulling together all the last-minute details for summer reading programs, staff meetings and schedules, school visits and book talks, not […]
Author: Christie, Geek in Librarian's Clothing
Permission to be Imperfect
I Think I’m Leaking
Remember the scene in the 2009 reboot of Star Trek, when Bones gives Kirk a vaccine to give him symptoms of a virus to sneak him onto the Enterprise for the first time? Kirk gets all these symptoms and says at some point, “I think I’m leaking?!” That’s pretty much my house right now. That […]
Opinion: Greeks versus Angels
I admit, I’m behind on news this week- That Guy is in DFW for work while I’m at home in Florida with Willow the Wonder Horker who is not taking his absence well. She’s either barking at the upstairs neighbors or something outside, defending me to the outside world, or, well, let’s say pining for […]
Author Wisdom
My tweens & teens are not hyped by the places I go for conferences or by the books I bring back, but that I talked and met the authors that we have on the shelves. Authors are impossible people that don’t quite exist. Here are some of their favorite quotes:
Heartbreaking Comic Book Movies
Deadpool comes out this week, and for me it’s going to be a perfect Valentine’s movie- he’s a wisecracking antihero who’s rude and obnoxious. You know he’s going to rescue the girl at the end (or she’s going to rescue herself), so there’s not going to be sappy grief, but it’s going to be a […]
Maya Angelou
Prophecy of Shadows Tour
Today, I am part of Dreamscape Publishing’s blog tour for a new series from Michelle Madow, author of the Secret Diamond Sisters series. The first in the series, Elementals: The Prophecy of Shadows, was released on January 26, and has 4 stars on Goodreads as of January 28.
Fought, Eisenhower and Disney Princess Movies
While scrolling through Tumblr (dangerous, I know), I came across a reblogging of the post by Washington Post writer Jeff Guo discussing the work of linguists Carmen Fought and Karen Eisenhauer. They’ve been taking a look at ALL the Disney Princess movies, and studying the dialogue in them- how many times each character speaks, what […]
Mini-Review: Dead Man’s Party Shadowhunters 1:3
So, while I think that any episode of Freeform’s Shadowhunters that doesn’t have Magnus can be classified as pure filler, Dead Man’s Party (air date January 26, 2016) definitely moved forward the story quite a bit and introduced watchers to some key characters that will become extremely important later on in the story line. If you haven’t watched […]