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

  • My Winter Reading List

    DSC_0136 Currently, I am reading The Financial Lives Of The Poets by Jess Walter and am really liking the writing. The subject is depressing me, though. I have a ton of books that I bought that I am dying to read. Here are a few that are on my list: Becoming Animal by David Abram.…

  • I am donating these books to the OWS People’s Library

    I felt moved to donate books to the OWS library. So I perused my shelves, looking for the right ones. These jumped out at me immediately. What could be more subversive than art, poetry, and writing? And I had to include the ukulele book because it has been established that it is the instrument of…

  • The Sliding Glass Door

    R and I received in the mail yesterday a book that we both had a hand in the development of. The Sliding Glass Door by Scott Poole. R designed the cover of the book and I took the author’s photo. I wrote a little bit about it, vaguely, in April when I went to Live…

  • Review: The Survivor’s Club

    The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life by Ben Sherwood My rating: 2 of 5 stars I really liked the first few chapters. In fact, I couldn’t put it down. I spent all of yesterday reading this book. I have been drawn to stories of survival and have read a…

  • Booking Through Thursday: Something Old, Something New

    I keep forgetting that I wanted to participate in Booking Through Thursday. catching up on Sassenach’s blog today reminded me that I should! Here’s this week’s writing prompt: All other things being equal–do you prefer used books? Or new books? (The physical speciman, that is, not the title.) Does your preference differentiate between a standard…