Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Category: Books, Music, Art, Movies

That’s entertainment.

  • Memories

    Guess what I just bought for 5 bucks at Hastings? The Lost Boys! I love this movie. I saw it for the first time in the theater. When was that? 1987? 1988? I was still living in Spokane. I remember it was summer. Probably this time of year. I remember walking out of the theater…

  • Holes by Louis Sachar.

    I finished reading Holes by Sachar (1999) last week. I absolutely loved it. I think it’s my favorite Newberry winner so far. If you haven’t read it, it’s about a boy, Stanley, who is sent away to a correctional camp in Texas called Camp Green Lake. Only there is no lake, and it’s certainly not…

  • the three little pigs

    This week my story time theme is wolves, and I am looking over some of the classic fairy tales. As I was searching around I found a lot of versions of The Three Little Pigs, so I thought it would be interesting to read the classic version and then read a couple of the retellings…

  • Remember those things called books?

    This is funny:

  • The Rules of Survival

    I just this very minute finished reading The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin. Wow. What wonderfully, fantastically, tragically sad book. The book is actually a fictional letter written by Matthew to his little sister, Emmy. He writes it because he wants her to know about her mother: I have decided to write it all…