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Cindy: Kids these days! They have it so easy. I recently saw this photo on awesome librarian friend Kevin King’s Facebook page announcing what his oldest daughter bought with her bookstore gift card: A Personal Library Kit. Now, before you villify me….I adore this young avid reader (and her younger sister) and I am THRILLED that she wants [...]

Cindy: This morning when I saw this video it had 310 views. I emailed Lynn to ask if she’d seen it and said we need to blog this but we were both busy today. This evening as I write this, the video has over 74,000 views and will be climbing. But you can’t miss this, [...]

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 [...]

Cindy: I stumbled upon this adult graphic novel while on a recent buying spree to boost the profit margin at my local independent bookseller. What a find. The Night Bookmobile (Abrams 2010) is a first person story about a young woman who is out for a very late night walk when she sees an big [...]

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 [...]

Cindy and Lynn: Pavlov would have loved us. We’re behavior mod kind of gals. We’re assigned reading by Booklist and by each other for the blog and somehow, even if it’s a book you wanted to read, once someone assigns it to you a bit of the shine disappears. So, enter the beauty of the [...]

Cindy: For every enthusiastic librarian or teacher, there’s a kid out there with a “prove-it-to-me” attitude. Miss Brooks is a costumed, puppet-wielding vortex of book-loving, book-promoting energy but one of her young students is not buying any. I ask Miss Brooks why she dresses up for reading circle. “I want you to get as excited [...]

Lynn: We have a problem. It’s a totally great problem but there definitely are some down-sides to it. We have books, books, books stacked EVERYWHERE! You can hardly walk through my office. It all started with serving on YALSA committees, increased when we started reviewing for Booklist and has gotten completely out of hand now [...]