Free Range Librarian

K.G. Schneider’s blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else, since 2003.

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Entries Tagged as 'Reading'

Dog Years, Teahouse Fire win Stonewall Book Awards!

January 17th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Mark Doty’s Dog Years: A Memoir won in the nonfiction category for this year’s Stonewall Book Award, selected by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Roundtable of the American Library Association — passionate readers who spend a year steeped in this particular literature (”exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience”).
Dog Years is a gorgeous book, [...]

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Tags: Reading · Writing

LibraryThing’s “I See Dead People['s Books]“

January 15th, 2008 · 12 Comments

I know it’s considered lame to write a hey-gee-look-at-the-pretty-linkies post, but first of all, link posts make a great amusee bouche between those huge ketchup-sauced meatloafs I dole out once or twice a week, and second, I’m tuckered from a whirlwind conference at ALA, backlogged on homework due Thursday, and about to go to an [...]

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Tags: Reading · Writing