An Invitation to READ!

Here's a special invitation just for you. Come in Come in! We have some golden tales to spin and you can find them all at your public library. We welcome you to summer reading.

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Summer Reading, Redux

And then I have to ask myself, what could you possibly need me for?

Via Teach.com and USC Rossier Online

Is anyone else just a little bit tempted to get this tattooed somewhere?

Ray Bradbury - Science Fiction Master - RIP

Ray Bradbury, pioneer of science fiction and champion of public libraries passed away Tuesday, June 5, 2012.


The author of the classic Fahrenheit 451 was one who shaped 20th century science fiction and embraced an imagination that both celebrated technology and cautioned against its abuse.  He educated himself through public libraries was a firm advocate of them.  Ray  Bradbury wrote for 70 years.  He was 91 years old.


"Libraries raised me. ... I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.” - Ray Bradbury 


Read the New York Times Obituary

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”  -- RB on Fahrenheit 451

From Page to Screen -- The Perks of Being a Wallflower

You've still got awhile to wait for the actual release, but here's your first look at little Hermoine Granger Emma Watson all growed up...

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If you haven't read it yet, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is rather a cult classic among students and well worth a place on your Summer Reading list.  Especially considering that you have to wait until September 14 to see the movie...

Summer Reading Lists: The Biggies

Remember last week when I mentioned that ever news media source is going to come around to publishing a Summer Reading list?  Here's two of the big ones:

The Sunday Book Review for the New York Times released their list this weekend, which is surprisingly light on fiction. It did, however, come with this snazzy artwork that I cheerfully borrowed for this blog post.

The L.A. Times, on the other hand, brought out a veritable party of every sort of reading delineation you could possibly imagine!  And it's so pretty...  No really--lots of covers, book review links, the works!

Happy Reading!

Summer Reading Lists -- An Intriguing Spin

Hey--remember that thing I promised I would do?  The thing where I compile the Summer Reading lists for you?  Here's one I've decided I love!

Library Journal is a magazine near and dear to my heart--read it every month, thought about naming my son after it (not really, but I wanted to make sure you were paying attention).  Anyway, they made this nifty reading list that pairs new books released for summer 2012 with titles that are a couple years older.  Got a book you love from five years ago?  It could well be on the list, paired with a new book released for this summer.  Cool, huh?

Happy Reading!

Newly Notable...literally by the dozens....

It's that time of year, folks--as surely as the snow eventually melts and there is a last day of school looming in the near future, a plethora of school spring concerts and performances begin racking up, most news media organizations will publish a Summer Reading List.

As they begin to trickle in, here are a few of my favorites...

NPR's list is a perennial favorite of mine--the recommendations are typically made by independant booksellers who are near and dear to my heart (thank you, best college job ever!!!).

The Wall Street Journal is always worth a look--they tend to nab a number of the books whose reviews I find intriguing.

Also worth checking out is USA Today's funky new format, and a newcomer to my radar, Good Housekeeping, which has some very promising sounding listings. 

Happy Reading!