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Spanish Flu, Beethoven, and The Ladies of Grace Adieu | What We’re Reading
Here’s what some of the Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are reading. Shelley Diaz, Assistant Book Review Editor, SLJ Right now, it’s In the Shadow of Blackbird by Cat Winters. It’s...
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Steve Jobs, Harry Houdini, and Beyoncé | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are dipping into some classics (both new and old) of the horror genre, going behind-the-scenes of today’s technology, and looking at...
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Lemon Cake, Zombies, and “a Semi-Magical London”| What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are reading about lots of different places: London, Edinburgh, Iowa, and western China. There are few things as transporting as a book!...
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Burlesque, Fairies, and The Rozz-Tox Manifesto | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are reading narratives of risqué histories and the earliest movement toward establishing racial equality in local U.S. public schools,...
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Poetry Goes (Sort of) Viral, Undying Love for Nick Carraway, and an Unlikely...
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are reading some books very much of the moment: the follow-up to Elizabeth Wein’s multiple-award winner, Code Name Verity; Fitzgerald’s...
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Tear Jerkers, Literary Thrillers, and a Love Song to Video Games | What We’re...
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are reading lots of hot forthcoming books: Elizabeth Wein’s follow-up to Code Name Verity, Marisha Pessl’s noiry Night Film. I’m most...
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Magazines, Essays, and Some Romance | What We’re Reading
This past week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers went to BookExpo America (BEA), and we are still feeling its throes. Guy and myself are going without books for a time, and Bette-Lee...
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Murderous Monologs, Dying Suns, and a Library Deluge | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are getting cozy with tales of murder and with children’s literature. SLJ‘s Shelley Diaz and Chelsey Philpot are both reading Bennett...
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Gender Struggles | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffer reads involve struggling with gender stereotypes in fantasy books, computer games, and 19th-century England. In other news, LJ Executive...
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White Girls and Dead Dogs | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staff are reading zombie recipes, advice columns, romance novels, essay collections, memoir, and some literary fiction here and there. Who says we...
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Murderous Inspiration and Not So Guilty Pleasures | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staff are reading lots of smart, fun books. We’ve got political zombie YA, especially smart sci fi, and the nonfiction inspiration for legendary...
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Heaven, Hell, and Growing Up | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staff are reading books that harken back to childhood, whether picking up a much loved favorite or a new book about growing up. Stephanie has...
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Logos, Lost Films, and the Life of Montaigne | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staff are reading practical books, spooky books, and books to savor. Bill Grover, Marketing Designer, LJ I have two books right now: Logo Creed:...
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Macho Classics, Mean Wit, and Maria Semple | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staff are reading some devasting children’s literature, particularly savory romance, smart and serious discussions of education reform, a popular...
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Magic, Mystery, and Ghosts | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staff are reading some standard summer fare: indulgent YA fantasy, author biographies, pulpy mystery, far-away ghost stories. Take a break from the...
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Nearly End of Summer | What We’re Reading
As summer unofficially comes to a close, Library Journal and School Library Journal staff are parsing pop culture, reading about sex-ed teachers, finding reasons to live and to die, and sleuthing the...
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Geeking, Freaking, Sneaking, and Swimming | What We’re Reading
This week in the School Library Journal /Library Journal stacks, staffers are perusing murder by man and animal; spies; cult TV shows; boarding schools/riding camps; and fun times with werewolves. It’s...
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Not for the Timid | What We’re Reading
We’re reading across the spectrum this week at Library Journal/School Library Journal, with nonfiction and fiction both represented. A cross theme of strong women, from actress Anjelica Huston to...
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Darwin, Rosewater, Hosseini, and More | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal/School Library Journal staffers are experiencing beauty, genius, loss, love of mankind, and love of New York and learning how to be good undergraduate researchers. It’s what...
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Bad Boys, Venomous Murder, and Irish Crime | What We’re Reading
This week, the bookworms at Library Journal are reading about boys being iconoclastic (or just naughty) murder by snake, and police procedures in Ireland. Mahnaz Dar, Associate Editor, LJ I’m currently...
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