I recently read Jo Walton’s Hugo award winning book, Among Others. Pause. Yes, it was that heady for me, that I need to put a lot of white space between that sentence in the next. Now I have talked about how there are some books that evoke a visceral reaction from me. They happen randomly,Continue reading “What I Miss Most”
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What are you doing for your spring break?
That’s it. It’s official. My children are downright certifiable. Oh, yes, they put up a good front. They act like normal children. The don’t clean their rooms, they talk back, sometimes they don’t even do their homework. However, I now suspect that it was all a ploy to distract us. A sisterly conspiracy to hideContinue reading “What are you doing for your spring break?”
1 rule
I was at the Web2.You conference yesterday, a one day event hosted by the McGill SIS students. As the title suggests, it was about web2.0 and the uses it can have in the library community. But of course, like anything remotely thought provoking, it stretched beyond the boundaries of the library walls and into theContinue reading “1 rule”
Overheard and Unbelievable
I read the Nanny Diaries a couple of years ago. Although it was a horribly written book (the movie was not much better), it stayed with me as my first introduction into the insane things people did to their kids in the name of education (or more like the insane orders parents give their nanniesContinue reading “Overheard and Unbelievable”
Just say no
It is the oddest thing. I will be at the reference desk, and a harried woman will come up to me and ask “I need books about maquettes.” My first thought is, okay, she is doing a project at work that requires some 3d presentation. Or, she is a housewife who is so bored sheContinue reading “Just say no”
Fable #2-The sequel
The Smug HusbandAfter losing her wallet, the woman called her husband to tell him that she was stranded and could not pick up the kids from daycare. A short time later the husband stomped down into the children’s department followed by his wife. She was not crying anymore, but the expression on her face wasContinue reading “Fable #2-The sequel”
Library Fable #1
The kids and I recently read a selection of Aesop’s Fables and thought, hmm, what a wonderful way to be deliciously morally superior for a moment and create some witty little moral lessons of my own. Library Fable #1 On a cold February day in Montreal, a young mother made her way to the largeContinue reading “Library Fable #1”
Lina Branter 