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I want to be a librarian...3 comments

jessmonster wrote 5 months ago: Oh wait, I AM.  As of yesterday, I will officially be the newest librarian at my library – the … more →

Tags: library use only, photos, burdens of our much toiling flesh

Show & Tell1 comment

jessmonster wrote 7 months ago: Show and Tell: The Fine Art of Picture Book Illustration by Dilys Evans My review rating: 4 of 5 sta … more →

Tags: children's lit, Books, show & tell, Dilys Evans

lemon?4 comments

jessmonster wrote 8 months ago: So here I am, all moved, and starting to get a grip on the important things about my new place … more →

Tags: Graduation, back at the ranch

student life2 comments

jessmonster wrote 8 months ago: Maybe this is why I don’t feel done yet. … more →

done5 comments

jessmonster wrote 8 months ago: So, I think I’m done with grad school. I submitted my final assignments, I sent a check for my … more →

Tags: Graduation, wretch that I am

mock reporting

jessmonster wrote 10 months ago: Yes, I’m alive and still reading, although you wouldn’t know it from this blog.  I … more →

Tags: Books, mockings & scourgings, ya, Mock Printz, mock caldecott

Go Koobish!

jessmonster wrote 1 year ago: I’ve reached the overwhelming of the semester, when I’m swamped in books and I can … more →

Tags: Food, Books, sea of the fast, ya, addictions

mysteries and trains1 comment

jessmonster wrote 1 year ago: So, I just noticed the Goodreads “blog this review” feature, and thought I’d try i … more →

Tags: autumn, Books, Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog, Boris Akunin, The Lady Vanishes

today's #1 way to get out of a funk4 comments

jessmonster wrote 1 year ago: Or, Where Librarians and Computer Geeks Overlap Instructions: after a work scheduling error, too muc … more →

Tags: Coffee, Books, ya, Little brother

I'd rather be baking2 comments

jessmonster wrote 1 year ago: The prophesied hot weather is upon us.  I am prepared with my iced tea (Earl Grey, of course, with a … more →

Tags: Food, Books, back at the ranch

overlap1 comment

jessmonster wrote 1 year ago: I live for moments when academics and fiction overlap perfectly.  This happened last quarter with Th … more →

Tags: Books, ya

the quality of mercy2 comments

jessmonster wrote 1 year ago: As Holling Hoodhood would say, the quality of mercy is not strained.  And wherever Holling is, I … more →

Tags: Audiobooks, children's lit, Lists, Books, ya

and the votes are in

jessmonster wrote 1 year ago: Just back from this year’s Mock Printz (aka, the best excuse ever to engage in heated debate a … more →

Tags: mockings & scourgings, ya

return of the elf1 comment

jessmonster wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I finished all the little piddling assignments for one class – the class with the ea … more →

Tags: Elves, burdens of our much toiling flesh

patience and forbearance1 comment

jessmonster wrote 2 years ago: I am forever doing my school reading and chuckling over various things I come across.  This morning … more →

Tags: Books, Big Read

cranberry bean stew5 comments

jessmonster wrote 2 years ago: When did I become the kind of person who writes an eight page paper when five are required?  Probabl … more →

Tags: Food, autumn

I ought to be writing letters

jessmonster wrote 2 years ago: Isn’t it odd how you build some assignments up in your head, thinking “this will be SO H … more →

Tags: back at the ranch, Books

decisions

jessmonster wrote 2 years ago: Town asked in a comment how I choose which books to listen to and which to read. I’m not entir … more →

Tags: Audiobooks, children's lit

information is perception3 comments

jessmonster wrote 2 years ago: Tired, tired, tired, and off to sunny (I checked the forecast) California tomorrow.  Tired from gett … more →

Tags: burdens of our much toiling flesh


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