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Close Encounters of The Library Kind

September 30, 2014 by Caitlin

Title: I Work at a Public Library Author: Gina Sheridan Published: July 2014 Genre: Nonfiction (although often stranger than fiction) Rating: ★★★★ When people think of a librarian, they’ve often told me they call to mind the classic bespectacled spinster, sternly shushing noisy children. This is simply just not so – librarians are as diverse as libraries themselves, which aren’t exactly the revered temple of literature you’d think they’d be. Libraries, contrary to popular belief, are often full of hijinks, odd patrons […]

Categories: Book Review • Tags: GIna Sheridan, librarians, library love

“The Lynburns, egolomaniacs and tricky bastards” – Book Review

September 26, 2014 by Erin

Title: Unmade (Lynburn Legacy #3) Author: Sarah Rees Brennan Published: September 23, 2014 Genre: Young adult paranormal/gothic mystery. With sorcerers! Rating: ★★★★★ (If you haven’t read the first two books in the series, Unspoken and Untold, be warned of spoilers ahead, but no spoilers for the third book!) After the maddening cliffhanger ending of Untold (in which Jared Lynburn is buried alive in a wall by his evil sorcerer uncle, Rob), Unmade starts out dark and stays dark, with consistent bits of snarky banter […]

Categories: Book Review • Tags: gothic, human sacrifice, literary bingo, paranormal, sarah rees brennan, socerers, young adult

Just Call Me Booze Radley

September 25, 2014 by Caitlin

What to read: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee; Tequila Mockingbird, by Tim Federle What to drink: a Tequila Mockingbird, as found on page 45 of the aforementioned book As you may already know, it’s Banned Books Week, a week when we celebrate the freedom to read and discuss the dangers of censorship. As the official Banned Books Week website (which has a plethora of information on the subject) points out, many books that have changed the face of literature – […]

Categories: Happy Hour • Tags: Banned Books Week, Harper Lee, Literary Happy Hour, To Kill A Mockingbird

Banned Books Week – Celebrate the Freedom to Read!

September 22, 2014 by Caitlin

Where The Wild Things Are, The Great Gatsby, Captain Underpants, and Harry Potter. What do all these books have in common? They’ve all been banned at one time or another. Can you imagine if someone tried to ban your favorite book just because they don’t agree with the ideas or messages contained within? This happens across the globe every single day – and is the whole point of Banned Books Week. September 21 marks the start of Banned Books Week, an […]

Categories: Featured • Tags: Banned Books Week, Censorship, literature

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1- New Trailer!

September 15, 2014 by Caitlin

Today, Lionsgate dropped the first full length official trailer for the third Hunger Games installment, Mockingjay Part 1! Check it out: While we at Ladies On The Shelf agree that this is the weakest book in the Hunger Games series, based on this glimpse of the film, it looks like this is going to be a hell of a fun movie. It will be interesting to see where they make the split for part 1 and part 2, but if I […]

Categories: Adaptations • Tags: "The book is better than the movie", Hunger Games, Mockingjay, movies, young adult

Silvaner wine

Wine, Kilts, and…Vocal Cord Paralysis? – Literary Happy Hour

September 11, 2014 by Erin

In which a fictional historical romance set in the 18th century Scottish highlands leads me to the fanciest bottle of wine I’ve ever purchased. What to read: Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon What to watch: Outlander, Starz channel, Saturdays 9pm E/P What to drink: Hans Wirsching 2006 Silvaner Auslese I turned, having missed Colum’s words in the growing noise, to find him offering me the decanter, a lovely bell-shaped thing of pale green crystal. The liquid within, seen through the glass, […]

Categories: Happy Hour • Tags: bocksbeutal, diana gabaldon, Literary Happy Hour, outlander, wine

Heir of Fire

Four YA Trilogy Conclusions to Look Forward to This Month

September 2, 2014 by Erin

September is here! And holy cow, is this a good month for fans of fantasy and paranormal young adult fiction. Over the next four weeks, four exciting trilogies are concluding and they’re sure to be awesome. And how wonderful is it to start a series knowing you won’t have to wait a year or more for the next installment to be published? So here you go, four brand new young adult trilogy closers to conclude your summer reading. Heir of […]

Categories: Best Of • Tags: fantasy, gothic, love triangles, paranormal, young adult

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