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Cindy:  The full subtitle of Wheels of Change (National Geographic 2011) describes the book perfectly: “How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way).” There are no “flat tires” in the research, writing, and design of this thorough presentation of the bicycle’s importance to women in the late 1800s. [...]

Cindy: As Courtney Jones reported over at the Likely Stories Booklist Blog earlier today, the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes shortlists were announced today, including the adult novel category judged by Booklist’s own Donna Seaman. As one of the judges for the YA Lit jury, I’ve been chewing my fingernails waiting for our list to [...]

Lynn: We have so much fun doing our year-end top ten lists that we decided to spread the fun of top ten lists throughout the year.  We’re starting by listing the top ten arcs that we scooped up at the ALA Midwinter Conference and can’t wait to read. All I really need to say about [...]

Lynn: There is an irritating new rule about new book reserves at my public library.  Well, that is another story but because of that it sometimes it takes me a while to get my hands on a book and that is the case with Mindblind (Marshall Cavendish 2010)  I wanted to read this since I [...]

Lynn: I LOVE reading Top Ten lists and Best of the Year lists!  It doesn’t have to be books either, I’ll read the Top Ten Idiotic Quotes of the year, the Ten Best Websites to Waste Time On or even the Top Ten Places to Fall Off Mountains  – and I’m afraid of heights!  Anyway, [...]

Cindy: Full disclosure. I consider myself a pretty strong feminist and also a Barbie fan so I was intrigued by Stone’s latest nonfiction offering, The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll’s History and Her Impact on Us (Viking, 2010). She begins the book with basic biographical information about Ruth Handler, Barbie’s “creator,” and readers who [...]

Lynn: Talk about an early holiday gift!  One of my favorite literary characters, Bartimaeus, is back!  Bartimaeus –   snarky, egotistical, irreverent, utterly disrespectful of authority and just as utterly unable to control his smart mouth, king of the footnotes, djinn of the Fourth level – is back.  Hurray!  In The Ring of Solomon (Hyperion [...]

Lynn: I love this job!  I get paid to read and right now you should see the books on the top of my to-read stack.  I am in sequel heaven!  There are so many awesome books that I couldn’t chose between them so I closed my eyes, mixed them up, made a stack and am [...]

Lynn: I am writing about the two new entries in Houghton’s Scientists in the Field series today.  Seriously people – just put this series on standing order and be done with it!  Each book is a treat and you don’t want to risk missing one.  I’m an unabashed fan of the series.  The books focus [...]

Lynn: I love books where I learn new things especially in subjects that I thought I knew something about. I REALLY love books that make me say, “Wait a minute! What makes you say THAT?” Marc Aronson is really good at that and his new book with Marina Budhos, Sugar Changed the World: A Story [...]