Misadventures of the Monster Librarian

After reading this article the nice librarian in me says, "Yay! Teens asserting themselves!" The mean librarian in me says: "Waa waa, picky teens! At least you have some books to read. #firstworldproblems When I was your age it was all Sweet Valley High . Just shut the what up and be thankful there are books for you. You're right we won't call them 'YA' books anymore. We'll go w books for moody, hormone-y-not-quite-adults." After this week the mean librarian is winning. WEEKEND!

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"For thus my Lord said to me: Go, station a watchman, let him tell what he sees."  --Isiah, 21:6, New American Bible *Spoilers* I told myself to ease into. I told yourself that it's not a sequel, it's a rough version. I told myself it's full of the characters of my childhood (and second childhood), the characters I know as well as myself, and love so much I just have to travel alongside them again. On a new journey. And yet I still prepared for the worst. And I wasn't disappointed. There is no way this is all Harper Lee's doing--though her publisher would have us believe it's an early and very different draft of what later became To Kill a Mockingbird --this book reads so inconsistently, and only parts of it ring with Lee's voice--in the part featuring the flashback of the children and the Revival I couldn't help but smile and be momentarily lulled. There she is, now she'll take over the story, and it will come right...