Category Archives: Librarianisms

She’s aaaaalive!

Girl Frankenstein’s Monster! Girl Frankenstein’s Monster! That’s me. It’s been almost a month since my last post. I’m sorry about that. I haven’t got any good excuses, so I won’t throw any out. Instead it’s just been a lot of day to day getting on with things, you know the type. Birthday Hoopla My birthday [...]
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Bookasaurus

I’ve been sitting around with time on my hands, which means sitting around reading. I just finished a great, funny young adult book called Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before (you can read my review on Goodreads if you click on the title). It was fresh and enjoyable. I also got a slew [...]
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Based on the Book

Based on the Book is Mid-Continent Public Library’s awesome database of over 1,200 books that have been adapted into movies. You can search by movie title or release year as well as author. Awesome! Use it here: http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/.
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Overheard in the Library #8987272

From a mother to a toddler, in the Children’s area: “Look with your eyes, honey.” I love that, especially being someone who frequently looks with her hands.
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Fear and Loathing: the 15th of April

“In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.” – from the letters of Benjamin Franklin And yet…it seems as if 99% of the world waits until 5:39pm on the day they are due to come yell at librarians for not being accountants. At least there’s just 2 hours and 20 minutes until we [...]
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