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Baby Drivers, Hippo Farms, Former Manhattans | What We’re Reading & Watching
The LJ/School Library Journal/Junior Library Guild staffers who contribute to this week’s “What We’re Reading & Watching” column have some fun with romanticized cityscapes, superheroes and...
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Strange Boys, Vanishing New York, Brollies, and IT | What We’re Reading &...
This time out, the “What We’re Reading & Watching” gang finds a jewel in the slush pile, confronts monsters who bedevil us, fights for New York City’s soul, hoists brollies against the rain, and...
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Libraries, Queens, Longmire, Roxane Gay, Standards | What We’re Reading &...
It’s October already, and the reading season is upon us. But the staffers from LJ/School Library Journal and Junior Library Guild are also going to the movies and binge-watching TV as well as reading...
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Rumbles, Recycling, Roots, Researchers | What We’re Reading & Watching
On this Halloween, a core team of LJ/School Library Journal staff discuss what they’re ritually reading and witchily watching this week. Don’t be scared, come enjoy our tricky treats! BOOO. Mahnaz Dar,...
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Met & Unmet Expectations | What We’re Reading & Watching
Turkey Day looms and we can finally freely discuss the nominees and winners of LJ’s best books 2017. Here, the WWR/WWW crew recognizes its home state’s shortcomings, stacks a horror film against the...
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You Might Also Like… | LJ Notable Books of 2017
After we’ve chosen the Top Ten Best Books of the year, the LJ editors pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and start writing about all the other books. Here are our Notables of 2017, titles that...
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Degenerates, Royals, Monsters, and the Zerelli Sisters | What We’re Reading &...
It’s been a busy post-Thanksgiving, post–Best Books season here at WWR/WWW land. After a bit of relaxation, the Reviews editors took to their writing desks and compiled LJ‘s Notable Books of 2017 list....
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Butchers, Bad Boys, Brainiacs | What We’re Reading
The “What We’re Reading” team is skeletal during the rush-around holiday season—plus there’s no “watching” folks this time. But fear not, 2018 is full of possible “watchings” and readings. Stay tuned...
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New Year, New Crop | What We’re Reading & Watching
Even if the new year is an arbitrary construct, it seems to motivate the people of “What We’re Reading & Watching” to make resolutions: to read more; to watch more; and most importantly (to me),...
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You Say You Want a Resolution | What We’re Reading & Watching
February is nearly upon us, and still we’re talking about New Year’s resolutions and other ways to chase away the winter blahs. After reading SLJ Reviews Manager Shelley Diaz’s fantastic feature “25...
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Sayers, Superstars, Shinigamis, Slayers, & More | What We’re Reading & Watching
The people of “What We’re Reading & Watching” took some time off from their busy pre-spring (sure, spring’s here on the calendar, but it ain’t on the weather reports!) work schedules to report on...
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Poems, Prose, Makeup, & More | What We’re Reading & Watching
We’re more than halfway through National Poetry Month, so I asked the “What We’re Reading & Watching” contributors to share their poetry faves and finds. Some did. The more prosaic members in our...
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Obsessions & Other Stories | What We’re Reading & Watching
Sometimes I don’t have a theme or genre in mind for the “What We’re Reading & Watching” column; sometimes a theme emerges from the tangled, twisted threads woven by WWR/W contributors. This time...
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Busting Out with Books | What We’re Reading
My recent prompt to the “What We’re Reading & Watching” crew was a call to discuss reading something out of their comfort zones, maybe a genre hop or a complete 180-degree flip from fiction to...
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Mockingbirds, Nabokovs, Body Horror, Dual-Self Gods | What We’re Reading
Last week, I was on the subway heading into work when I spied a frequent co-commuter sitting across from me. This person always has a book in his hands—never a mobile or tablet, or even a newspaper for...
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