This would be funny if it weren’t so terrifying. Learn more: http://CISPAisback.org
Signal boost.
Guys I don’t have a lot of followers but please, PLEASE reblog this. This little girl is missing from our town and no one can find her. I know I only have a few followers that actually live near me but anything helps. Please.
Join the YA Book Club in reading just-released Taken by Erin Bowman. The book chat is on April 30. Then, on May 1, we’ll take to Twitter for a #TakenChat with the author. for full details, head here.
I recommend this book. I’m not biased or anything. ;)
Listening to the new Fall Out Boy album very very loudly and you can too #saverockandroll
Recalling 1993, Learn About Manhattan 20 Years Ago From Any Pay Phone in NYC
What an incredible idea for an art installation. Or is it history? Or both?
One of the last payphones in my town was ripped out just last week.
A ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Kids Bedroom, Complete with a Tree Fort Loft Bunk Bed
I can’t even describe how much I want this room.
This is a serious post for people who love books.
So, you may not have heard about this, but B&N and Simon & Schuster are currently locked in a dispute over financial stuff. Normally this is all behind-the-scenes publisher/bookseller stuff, but this is directly affecting authors because B&N…
Well worth repeating.
I’m trying to keep track of what I’m reading a little better, so I’m making lists all over the place.
So far in 2013, I’ve read:
The Chaperone, Laura Moriarity
Beautiful Darkness, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
A Brief History of Montmaray, Michelle Cooper
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn*
Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear**
The Irresistible Henry House, Lisa Grunwald
Invincible Summer, Hannah Moskowitz***
* Holy CRAP, this book is everything everyone says it is. Fascinating, infuriating, shocking, funny, and unforgettable.
** This is kind of a cheat, because I didn’t finish it. I liked Maisie very much, and I was interested in the story she was investigating, but the pace was a little too slow for at the moment. I’ll probably go back to it.
*** I cried so hard. SO hard. This book really blew me away.
It’s still Women’s History Month! I really fell down on the job when it came to posting, sadly. Making up for that this week!
I read a book about Jane Addams when I was a kid — there was a series of books called Childhoods of Famous Americans that had distinct orange covers (see above!), and all of them featured black and white silhouette illustrations. I LOVED them. I had my mom’s, which included Martha Washington, Dolley Madison, and Jane Addams.
Those books (which I think are still published in, updated I assume, paperbacks) introduced me to women I might never have learned about otherwise. Jane Addams was one of them.
Philosopher, sociologist, author, suffragette, and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Jane Addams was a real pioneer.
