I Saw You Reading

June 22, 2019
by messerlyk
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Recently Read

Participating in a summer reading challenge has made me make time for reading. That’s a good thing. It’s also a necessary thing. Despite being a librarian and despite loving books, it’s often hard to make myself sit down to read when the rest of the world is calling. Not mad about what I’ve read so far. My favorite on the top row is Love, Hate, and Other Filters. My favorite on the bottom row is One of Us is Lying. I can think of students who will love each one of these – look forward to seeing you reading ’em!

January 27, 2019
by messerlyk
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I’m 75% Nicer on Snow Days

We have got to up our game when it comes to wishing and hoping and praying for snow days, friends. And just in case we get one this week, please make sure you’ve got some good books checked out.  Y’all know we’re going to see Ghost (by Jason Reynolds) this week.  You’ll want to borrow that book or any of the others in hist Track Series.

We recently got a copy of The Price of Duty (by Todd Strasser) which tries to answer this question: If young people are going to be enticed into the military with financial bonuses and promises of advancement and heroism, shouldn’t they be made thoroughly aware of the potential dangers?  What do you think?

Finally, let me suggest for the 9000th time that you read Scythe (by Neal Shusterman).  I can’t love it enough and am still tempted to begin training as a Scythe so that I, too, can choose who dies (in order to keep the size of the population under control – of course!). <insert evil laugh here>

Here’s to SNOW DAYS!!!!

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