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More genres really need to get in on this eye-catching-title thing.
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With NaNoWriMo in mind, here’s a book trailer for a book about writing your own book in 26 days! Don’t worry, Nanowrimo gives you an extra 4 days, apparently! There’s some seriously awesome, exciting, historic things going on right now. If I hadn’t already chosen a paper topic long ago, I’d be tempted to do one on these. You see, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Boston, and other occupations around the country have set up libraries. How do you run a library on the street? Especially in places that rain and soon snow will be falling?
“A few days ago, Betsy, a trained librarian who lives in Brooklyn, came to the protest for the first time and found a short stack of books lying on the ground where everyone was camped out. She decided to go to one of the organizational meetings for the protests and ask if anyone else thought it would be a good idea to start a proper library. People did.” The Wall Street library has a blog, a Facebook page, and an online catalog through LibraryThing. 3337 items in the catalog right now! Because Boston is close to me, I’m watching them with interest as well. Here’s an article that just came out a few days ago: “The librarians have eschewed the Dewey Decimal System, concerned by historical accounts that portray Melvil Dewey, its inventor, as a racist and misogynist.” Interesting, no? And here’s the Occupy Boston library wikipage. This is what a library looks like.
Yup! This title was so good, it’s been used more than once. Is it Y’All or Y’all when it’s in a title? Here’s an assortment, collection, arrangement of links for you. The New Hampshire ILL service is under scrutiny because one state rep feels 1 van should be perfectly adequate to deliver materials to every library in the state in a timely manner. Rep Targets Federal Interlibrary Grant — Unfortunately you have to register on the Concord Monitor site to read this. Later I’ll do a post about how librarians feel the need to defend the profession as a profession. But here’s a good listing of what people who work in libraries do and why volunteers are not a good substitute! What Do Public Librarians and Library Staff Do? — A few of the items are UK-specific, but most are universal. We throw books out. It’s horrible. But that’s after we’ve seen that Better World Books doesn’t want them. And I can’t be too sad if we’re trashing 10 copies of the latest Patterson. I am more sad when it’s children’s books! They could be useful for crafts projects, right?! Alas, I can’t save them all. And have so far resisted saving any. I don’t have the space at home. All of which leads up to this link: Life got in the way of blog posts and I ran out of the Monday Titles and Wednesday Trailers posts that I had lined up ahead of time. So I missed some Mondays and Wednesdays! Plus, holiday. To make up for it, here’s some links: Neil Gaiman interviews Terry Pratchett over on BoingBoing — Focused pretty tightly on talking about his Discworld books. I enjoy interviews where they talk about the genre in general or other stuff. They only get into that a bit. “The Rage to Defund Libraries” – Annoyed Librarian — Talks about the New Hampshire Rep who wants to cut the state ILL vans from 4 down to 1. The vans are paid for with FEDERAL money. It Gets Better video by Random House Inc staff — People are still making these? Apparently. Is this the first publisher to do so? These guys didn’t even publish the book.
As a bonus to the pun, cockatiels is a fun word for a cute bird. This book did catch my eye when it first came out, but I haven’t read it. The trailer’s pretty awesome though. Thanks again to the Outer Alliance Google group for giving me suggestions.
You may remember this title from an earlier post I did. But it really is my favorite awesome title so far. Of course my favorite werewolf is Lupin. (Circa Books 3-5. I’ll just erase 6 and 7 from my memory, thank you.) Over on my The Blogger’s Bride post, K requested I look at The X’s Apprentice, and also note the gender of the Apprentice and the X. So, yes, I do take requests! These are only fiction titles found in our library catalog. Children’s: Adult: One thing I instantly notice is there are no YA titles. Which is odd, considering most apprentices would be YA age, wouldn’t they? Maybe they’re Journeymen by then. (Oddly, only 2 titles with Journeyman, one OSC’s Alvin Journeyman and the other The Glasswrights’ Journeyman by Mindy L. Klasky. That apostrophe is in the correct place. And that one does happen to be YA.) Lots of magic-related or academic sort of professions there. There aren’t a lot of hands-on type craftsman, which would be more typical of apprenticeships. Where’s the carpenter, the gunsmith, the blacksmith, the other-smiths? The masters are typically male, as kind of expected. The only ones that are women are a quilter, a baker, a healer, a midwife, and the puppeteer who has to go about as a man. In at least some of the cases where the apprentice is a girl and the master is not, she’s definitely bucking trends to be that. She might be ‘the only girl’ or ‘the first girl’ or it might simply be uncommon. I can’t give exact numbers without actually reading some of the books. Or where it’s an M/F relationship and the girl is a little older, it probably involves a romantic relationship developing at some point. That seems to be the case in at least two of the titles listed above. Absolutely none of them had a female master teaching a male apprentice! |
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