blakspring

I’m probably the only librarian and undergrad English major who never read any classic British novels.  For all my schooling I ran away from those books like they were the plague.  No Dickens, Austin, Brontë sisters.  Now that I’m older I feel like I should at least know what the students in my school are complaining about.  To remedy [...]

I’ve decided to do something different by participating in an online book club.  (Thanks NPW for passing my name along and RA for inviting me.)  Every month there will be two or three books with different contributors leading discussions.  Thankfully I don’t have to take the stage till May which will give me plenty of [...]

Thanks to super-librarian NPW I realized that I had a total brain fart, otherwise I would have thought to ask ya’ll for book suggestions.  I did it last year, in the good ol’ days before my 1st blog was annihilated (yeah, I’m still not fully over it and will periodically bring it up).
So throw some [...]

This week has been a lot less intense than last week, so far, but I am still not getting anywhere near enough sleep.  I look like the walking dead (or is it undead…or…you know what I mean - I look like crap) and I’m running on fumes.  What’s making this all even worse is a [...]