mostly i have to read for school, but...
- i'm re-reading harry p. books 5 & 6 to get ready for book 7 / movie 5
- kind of meandering through From A to Zine: Building a Winning Zine Collection in Your Library
- kids (could be young end of YA) chapter book called Diary of a Wimpy Kid - funny, fast, might be good for male reluctant readers (middle school age)

in the spring i took a YA course so y'all have one more person to talk YA books with! :) one of my favorites was Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. forgive me if it's already been talked about, but has anyone else read it?

another of my favorites was Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay, which i'm not entirely sure could really be called YA, but was awesome anyway.

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tenderfoot zine * mamaphiles!

even though the library catalog SAID they had it and the librarian refused to get off her chair to help me, I found Poppy Z Brite's "Soul Kitchen" (and a couple of other books).

Some of it is goddamn funny. I think my co-worker (who doesn't mind if I read on the job as long as I do some work too) thinks I'm a little bonkers cuz I keep laughing out loud.

It also makes me want to go back to New Orleans (although maybe not in June this time).

I have been reading China's book. AWESOME!!!! :-)

Regina
"Karma is a boomerang"

I've been meaning to read her for years, but never got around to it.

Yesterday, feeling restless but not motivated to actually DO anything, I meandered around the library wishing there was a Neil Gaiman book there that I had NOT yet read. And then I remembered that I had always meant to read Octavia Butler.

So I checked out "Kindred" and tore through it last night and this morning.

Now I'm finished with it and wishing that it wasn't a 3-day weekend so I could go back to the library and borrow more of her books.

Sometimes paper is the only thing that will listen to you.

I've just picked up Solstice Wood, by Patricia McKillip. It's sort of a sequel to her book Winter Rose, but set in a modern time. I don't know what to expect of it, since I've barely scratched the surface, but I love McKillip's writing -- she's one of my favorite authors -- so I expect good things.

well i'm on a doctor prescribed "time out" until the end of june. my reading goal is to make it through "don quixote". i do however, have about 6 books i'd like to get through this summer:
chick flicks by b.ruby rich
flagging patriotism by robert stam and ella shohat
a book about zelda fitzgerald
another called "infidel" and one other i can't think of right now.
we'll see..

so said C. Wright Mills in 1978, according to a literature by someone named Hart in 1993 which was excerpted in a book on doing a literature review in 1998.

I have to admit, I am intimidated by the idea of ever having to do a literature review. And I am not enthused at all about the prospect of ever having to do one.

Still, the potential publisher noted that I didn't do any sort of thorough literature review in my introductory chapter. Instead I just "covered all bases." After reading that statement several times, I realized I had no idea what she meant and so I asked a couple of my radical librarian friends.

One of them was nice enough to Interlibrary Loan a book on how to do a literature review for me.

So that's what I'm reading now. It's slow and dry and full of long words (i.e. "The phenomenological scrutiny of the methodological assumptions of sociological studies to date on advertising were followed through leading to some of the works of major social theorists...") so I've assigned myself a chapter a day.

If any academic/grad school/post-grad school mamas have suggestions for easier-to-read books on doing a literature review (preferably doing a literature review for the non-academic), please let me know!

In the meantime, I'll keep slogging through it. One chapter a day.

Sometimes paper is the only thing that will listen to you.

I'm reading My Life As A Furry Red Monster, by Kevin Clash. Clash is the puppeteer who handles Elmo, from Sesame Street. He was incredibly lucky in a lot of ways -- not a struggling-to-follow-my-art book at all. And he's almost offensively cheerful and optimistic. To be honest, it makes me want to whack him and say, "You do realize that not everyone sails through the tough parts as easily as you do, right?"

I have Are Cops Racist? in the library basket, but I can't decide if I can face it or not. The jacket makes it clear that it's a defense of racial profiling, and I'm not sure I can take the bullshit. It's good to know what the other side is thinking, but this may be a bit much.