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STEREOTYPES by the Stereotypical Librarian - When we first began blogging several years ago we all got to kick around some ideas for how we wanted our blogs to look and the names we wanted to use on line. As all my choices proved to be technically impossible, including putting a trench coat on and a bag over my head and…
If the world is winning… then what? by The Stereotypical Librarian - I have to agree with these words from William Wordsworth, “The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!”. Because the world is too much with us we are…
Collapse of Modern Civilization by the Stereotypical Librarian - If you are looking for books that will make you think or if you already think things are getting pretty bad these books and movies will make you realize it’s not so bad after all. Enjoy each moment of this brand new year. When the English fall, David William’s debut novel is a thoroughly engrossing…
POWER OF A BOOK by The Stereotypical Librarian - I was browsing in the memoirs and found this little gem Morningstar: growing up with books written by Ann Hood and it took me down memory lane to the 1960s and 70s. Hood explains how the books she read shaped her life and made her who she is. The book is divided into the ten…
COLD COMFORT FROM NORDIC NOIR by The Stereotypical Librarian - I was reading about a movie that just opened this month and the Director was explaining why the movie wasn’t as good as it could have been, he didn’t have time to film all the scenes and all the locations that he had wanted. The movie is The Snowman it stars Michael Fassbender as police…
