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.

Tag: Books

  • Book Talk Saturday: Dead Until Dark

    Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris My rating: 4 of 5 stars I became addicted to True Blood earlier this summer after I had heard so many people talking about the show. I had no idea it was based on a series of books until later on. Having watched all of the Season 1 DVDs…

  • Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

    Well, I drank the Kool-aide. Yes, I loved it. I Couldn’t put it down. Couldn’t get enough of it. Want more of it. I went into it very skeptical. I am not a fan of the vampire story genre. In fact I couldn’t get through the first chapter of The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice.…

  • Brothers Grimm

    The Brothers Grimm: Popular Folk Tales by The Brothers Grimm I have found myself almost obsessed with these stories. I decided to read through these folk-tale and fairy-tale classics because I don’t remember being exposed to the original versions of the stories in my childhood. I absolutely love them. Some of the originals are so…

  • Book Talk Saturday: Little Women

    Little Women by Louisa May Alcott rating: 3 of 5 stars There were parts of this book that made me cringe just the tiniest bit. As a modern day woman, I kind of rolled my eyes at the message that I felt the book was portraying, “women are happiest when they are good mothers and…

  • Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall

    It is a rare treat to find a book that I can’t put down. Don’t you love that? Reading a story that is so interesting and exciting that you just want to keep going? This week I read “Dead Lucky: Life after Death on Mount Everest” by Lincoln Hall. This book was so good that…