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HeatherJ

HeatherJ

Joined May 2016

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A Man Called Ove: A Novel | Fredrik Backman
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My pick for my local book club this month. After a seemingly endless string of WWII fiction, this story of a crotchety Swede was a refreshing change. I love how the author uses the cat as a tool to talk about Ove's inner conflicts.

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Those Who Save Us | Jenna Blum
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Headed to the beach! Not driving, so it's time to turn to next month's book club pick.

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DBF Teen Stage is killing it today with diverse, interesting young women writers!

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Greenglass House | Kate Milford
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So wonderful to meet Kate Milford at DBF this year!

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Towers Falling | Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Decatur Book Festival Teen Stage, ready to go for the 11:00 panel!

kdwinchester Def checking this out soon! 8y
HeatherJ @kdwinchester She did an author talk with our local 5th graders yesterday, and they LOVED her. 8y
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Getting ready for the Decatur Book Festival Friday night Kidnote event. Long live Captain Underpants!

HeatherJ Also--only stuffed toy I've ever seen with nipples. 8y
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Mother Bruce | Ryan T. Higgins
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Ryan T. Higgins entertaining our K-1 kiddos--he was hilarious! If you're looking for a great, funny new picture book, check out Mother Bruce; it's guffaw-out-loud funny.

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Waylon! One Awesome Thing | Sara Pennypacker
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Love hosting an author at our K-3 school! Thanks, Sara Pennypacker!!

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Mother Bruce | Ryan T. Higgins
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Books are stacked, labeled, and ready to go for Ryan T. Higgins' visit to our school tomorrow. Hysterical book--I can't wait to hear what he has to tell the kids!

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Waylon! One Awesome Thing | Sara Pennypacker
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Books are labeled and ready to go for Sara Pennypacker's visit to our elementary library tomorrow. What lucky kids!

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Picked this up on audio from Overdrive for a weekend full of solo driving. From the title, I think I was expecting something like The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. Penumbra was certainly not that, but was a lot of fun and made the car hours fly by. Extra points for getting to hear the book's discussion of what listening to an audio book is like.

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Second week of school, new job in the library. Can I tell you how happy this drawer makes me?

Liberty PURRRRRRRRRRRRR. 8y
Posemn Oh yes! @HeatherJ! There is nothing that compares to the beginning of a new school year and all that goes with it. Congratulations on your new job and have a great year. ( yes, the drawer is very cool!) 😎 8y
HeatherJ Thanks, @Posemn! I'm moving over from a paraprofessional position into the media clerk job at a K-3, so lots of fun reading aloud and helping little ones fall in love with reading. What a great gig! 8y
HeatherJ @Liberty I know, right?! 8y
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Jackaby | William Ritter
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YA Sherlock Holmes-meets-Spiderwick Chronicles. A fun, quick read--looking forward to picking up the rest of the series.

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Jackaby | William Ritter
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A little light reading before the drive-in.

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Time travel/time loop stories can be tough to wrap your head around, and this is the most complicated I've ever read. Like Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, but multiplied. Totally worth it--it starts out slow, but picks up speed the whole way through.

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Lumberjanes Vol. 1 | Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevension
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Read Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 as a quick palate-cleanser between longer books. They were fun, and unexpectedly odd in a great way. I'm glad my daughter asked me to read them. I think I will add "What in the Joan Jett?!" to my usual vocabulary.

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Outsiders | S E Hinton
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I can see why my middle-school son was so moved by this book, and why he wanted me to read it. It still speaks to something unsettled, something raw and unfinished, in the souls of teen boys. I'm so glad it is still on the required reading list.

Stephanie-Anne Hmm...been trying to get my middle school son to read The Outsiders. I'll show him your review! 😉👍🏻 8y
HeatherJ @Stephanie-Anne I really thought it tapped into a very "boy" truth. I love a good challenge, though (and I'll bet several others here do, too!). Happy to try to recommend something for him if The Outsiders isn't his thing. 8y
Stephanie-Anne Yes! Please recommend stuff. He's going to camp soon, and wants to take a book (proud mom moment!). He was looking at lists, but recommendations are better 😸 8y
HeatherJ What grade is he going into? What are his interests? And--most importantly--what are a couple of books that he has read and enjoyed? 8y
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Outsiders | S E Hinton
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Today's library picks. My tween son, having read The Outsiders in 6th grade this past year, insists I must read it. Somehow it's one of those classic school assignments I missed in my own day, so I'm looking forward to seeing why it made such an impact on him.

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Mehso-so

This one was for my local (IRL) book club, chosen by another club member. Some of the characters were interesting enough, but there were far too many "and suddenly it was all clear to her, in a flash of understanding" moments for my taste--too neatly tied up in a bow.

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Beautiful, and at times a little unnerving--the short stories in the collection appear at first to be separate tales, but the characters occasionally bleed through into other stories and blur the lines. Oyeyemi crafts a beautiful sentence; it was a pleasure to linger in her odd world for a while.

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Headed home from a vacation in England & Paris. Picked up some new books, of course. Starting off with this unusually-bound beauty from Mr. B's Emporium is Bookish Delights in Bath, England--amazing indie!