Archive for November, 2008
Young at heart
I was an enthusiastic reader as a child, but I still managed to miss out on a lot of excellent children’s books when I was in their actual target age group. Fortunately, I’ve never been of the opinion that books for young people are only for young people, so I’ve kept reading them even as [...]
CLA and books for younger teens
Earlier this month I attended one day of the California Library Association annual conference. The panels that I attended were sort of hit-or-miss, which will come as no surprise to anyone who has ever attended a professional conference. My favorite panel of the day was presented by librarians from the County of Los Angeles Library; [...]
Mother knows best
Like many precocious readers, I began reading adult fiction long before I was actually in its target audience. This is partly because I grew up surrounded by my mother’s book collection, and it was only natural for me to pick up and attempt to read the ones that she liked best. I didn’t get my [...]
Naruto Nation redux
As others in the comics & anime blogosphere have already reported, Viz will be repeating last year’s Naruto Nation in the first half of 2009.
On the manga front, eleven volumes of manga will be released between February and April 2009; after this, the series will go back to its old quarterly release schedule. On the [...]
One more Lion Hunters book!
Via Sherwood Smith, here’s an interview with YA fantasy writer Elizabeth E. Wein. She has a lot of interesting comments on her creative process and the inspiration for her books. Best of all, there’s an excerpt from the next book in her Lion Hunters series. I’ve raved about Wein’s series on this blog before, and [...]
New directions
At my previous job, one of my projects was teaching a public computer class on blogging. (It was part of a new series of computer classes on Web 2.0 being offered at that public library.) During that class, I told my students that one way to build an audience for your blog was to be [...]
Usui, Yoshito: Crayon Shinchan, vol. 6
My review of vol. 6 of Crayon Shinchan is now up at Manga Life. I, er, didn’t like it very much.
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