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Dads Plus Mollusks, Millennials, and Margaret Mead | What We’re Reading
I asked the LJ/School Library Journal staffers for “dad reads” last week, and as is often the case, some came running with the “assignment” completed and others ventured into other waters (teeming with...
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Churches, Houses, Songs, Choices | What We’re Reading
In the hours and days after the hellish events in Charleston, SC, I asked the “What We’re Reading” gang how they’re handling the aftermath of the racist attack, and of course, what they’re reading....
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On the Beach, in the Kitchen, on Death Row | What We’re Reading
As many of our colleagues at School Library Journal/LJ journey to ALA and/or vacation hot spots, the WWR skeleton crew discusses the contents of their beach bags and backpacks. This week we won’t need...
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To Flag and Flag Not | What We’re Reading
After all the furor over the Confederate flag in Charleston and a month after Flag Day, I asked my colleagues at LJ, School Library Journal, and Junior Library Guild what they thought about flags and...
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Alternate Routes & Reads | French on Fridays
I’m feeling very normal today. I say this after reading (pretty much in one sitting) a book that my colleague Mahnaz loaned me called The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory (Akashic). By Stacy Wakefield,...
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Coloring, Geeking, Watching, Witching, & More | What We’re Reading
Last week I asked my cohorts at LJ/School Library Journal and Junior Library Guild about “alternative” reads, then sat back and waited for the deluge. There was no deluge. I got freaked out. I needed...
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Reading and Reacting | French on Fridays
Did you know that Liberace nearly killed himself by trying to dry-clean his flamboyant garments in a stuffy hotel room in 1963? He was rushed to the hospital on the night that JFK died. He suffered...
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Talking, Tweeting, Writing, Riding | What We’re Reading
The LJ/School Library Journal “What We’re Reading” people find inspiration on Twitter, in the headlines, at the beach, and in Montana City this week. Mahnaz Dar, Associate Editor, SLJ Reviews This...
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Va- and Stay-cation Books | What We’re Reading
Last week was pretty quiet in the LJ/School Library Journal/Junior Library Guild offices; many of the WWR gang took some well-deserved vacation time. I asked the happy vacationers and staycationers...
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Energy & Empathy | French on Fridays
Carnegie Award-winning author and advocate (and attorney) Bryan Stevenson has almost singlehandedly redeemed lawyers for me. As the founder of Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama and the author of Just...
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Recommended, Commended, & Unrecommended | What We’re Reading
The LJ/School Library Journal/Junior Library Guild staff is taking and making recommendations this week, with hive fiction, stalker stories, diversified heroines, L.A. hippies, women soldiers,...
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Rescued by Dogs | French on Fridays
I am feeling the summer bummer malaise in a big way this week. Maybe having the LJ plague is a factor—it’s no fun having a summer cold—but I feel kinda tamped down and dog-days-ish. Reading helps, as...
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Miss Silver, Ms. Bolton, Ms. Adichie, & Shaun the Sheep | What We’re Reading
It’s hard to concentrate in the last hot days of summer, but WWR staffers from LJ and Junior Library Guild manage to squeeze in a bit of mayhem on the moors, a mystery binge, Americanized journeys...
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Bound Up in Books | What We’re Reading
After e-interviewing book designer extraordinaire Coralie Bickford-Smith last week (see what she’s reading below), then following up with a raft of beautiful reissues in the latest “Classic Returns”...
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Books & Not Books | What We’re Reading
I asked my colleagues at LJ/School Library Journal and Junior Library Guild about their favorite animal books last week, having discovered a reprint of British illustrator Lucy Dawson’s delightful 1936...
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Match Books | French on Fridays
I’m sad and happy all at once—surely you know that feeling—to bid farewell to several coworkers and “What We’re Reading” contributors. Ashleigh Williams left a week ago and there’s a hole in the heart...
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Juxtapositions | What We’re Reading
Last week, I asked my reading mateys at LJ/School Library Journal and Junior Library Guild about simultaneous reads, especially unusual ones, and this week they responded, either with odd pairs, fun...
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Black Dogs and Best Books | French on Fridays
It feels like a long time ago that I asked readers for family-themed books—even longer since the WWR gang discussed reading books together and solo. Etta compared a crazy “happy” book to a...
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Books for the Win, Books for the Scare | What We’re Reading
The spirit of Halloween informs this week’s “What We’re Reading” column, with spooky and not-so-spooky book blurbs from the ghouls and ghosts who prowl the hallways of LJ and School Library Journal. An...
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Back to the Books | What We’re Reading
This week, the LJ/School Library Journal staffers take a quick breath after numerous end-of-year events and duties, and then plunge into splurge-reading, cherish-reading, Bunny-reading, role-model...
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