Library-in Training

library-related nerdventures and other fun stuff

[best-of-memes]

Chris Pratt

[flabbergasties]

This looks like a serious like, 20/20 documentary with violin-music and dramatic re-enactments, and she’s, like, the scorned witness. Just…look at the pain in her eyes.

[lifeisbechloe]

@icanbeaduckhead

[schoollibraryjournal]

From “YA: A Category for the Masses. But What About Teens?” By @sdiaz101 in our November 2015 issue dedicated to YA and Teen Services.

[fyeahdeafawakening]

Ren from Deaf West’s Spring Awakening going IN.

(Source: 11 Things You Should Know About Deaf People)

[nataliecparker]

TRIANGLES: THE POINTS OF LOVE

The news is out and I can finally, finally, FINALLY share that I have the incredible honor of editing a Young Adult anthology filled to the brim with love triangles. That’s right. Triangles OF LOVE. 

The idea occurred to me in the middle of a Romantic Times panel during which the panelists were asked to debate the merits and failings of the triangle trope so often maligned in YA fiction. As you might imagine, the discussion was lively. (And inspiring!) I thought, I’ll bet, I’ll just bet, there are more than a handful of authors out there who would love to help me complicate/ defend/ challenge the love triangle. 

A few short months later, I’d sent a round of invitations and ended up with a smashing collection of authors who all answered with that perfect triad of letters: Y - E - S. They are:

Renée Ahdieh Rae Carson Brandy Colbert Katie Cotugno Tessa Gratton Alaya Dawn Johnson E.K. Johnston Julie Murphy Garth Nix Natalie C. Parker Veronica Roth Maggie Stiefvater Sabaa Tahir Brenna Yovanoff and introducing A. Cajiuat Posadas

I am endlessly endebted to my agent Sarah Davies who worked tirelessly to make this collection happen. And I’m thrilled to be working with my editor at HarperTeen, Karen Chaplin. 

The official PW announcement is here:

Karen Chaplin at HarperCollins has acquired at auction Natalie C. Parker’s anthology Triangles: The Points of Love which explores the myriad tragic, frustrating, humorous possibilities of the teen love triangle and features 15 new stories from Renee Ahdieh, Rae Carson, Brandy Colbert, Katie Cotugno, Alaya Dawn Johnson, E.K. Johnston, Tessa Gratton, Julie Murphy, Garth Nix, Cajiuat Posadas, Veronica Roth, Maggie Stiefvater, Sabaa Tahir, Brenna Yovanoff, and Parker herself. Publication is set for 2017;  Sarah Davies at Greenhouse Literary did the deal for North American rights.  

Exciting, right? We can’t wait to ferociously/ humorously/ metaphorically rip your hearts out. 

[andimjulie-deactivated20200615]

HAVE YOU HEARD? I am so stupid excited for this anthology!

[katiecotugno]

OH HEYYYYY CHECK THIS OUT.

[brandycolbert]

Hey hi I am contributing to this anthology with all those terrific people listed above and it is going to be GREAT.

[awesome-picz]

Cats With Their Cute Mini-Mes

[roninwarriorsfanatic-deactivate]

chibicrow

[redditfront]

Oh, what a surprise, you caught me again…

[jcgreen72]

sarcasm shark

[firelordsarah]

Omfg drinking wine is too feminine for you that you gotta call it “brosé” grow up

[thejurassicjuan]

i can’t believe this nonsense

[barbelllift-and-fooditem-deacti]

Manscato

[rageturtleswaggg-blog]

Penis Grigio

[meghanwaslike]

Cabronet

[nudityandnerdery]

Mangria.

[gleonardrainschedule-deactivate]

Pi-bro Noir

[kyliesparks27-deactivated201810]

Sauvignon Bro

[sandandglass]

The Nightly Show, July 22, 2015

[themarysue]

This. 

[libraryjournal]

For her entry into the biannual Sculpture by the Sea in Aarhus, Denmark, Swedish artist Susanna Hesselberg installed this ominous library that plumments into the ground like a mining shaft. While visually arresting, the piece has a somewhat somber intention. Titled “When My Father Died It Was Like a Whole Library Had Burned Down,” the artwork makes reference to lyrics from Laurie Anderson’s song World Without End. The piece joins an additional 55 sculptures on display right now at the 2015 Sculpture by the Sea through July 5, 2015. (via Hyperallergic)

[arlingtonvalib]

But how much of is installation, and how much illusion???

[nprbooks]

Same question! Also, woah.

-Nicole

[rfsgdfsvfsdfsfsdf-deactivated20]

[librarianjules]

Dude, you look awesome. You look awesome also. Sestra, you are well? Oh, yeah, I’m, like, way better thanks to science.

[jointhegirlgang]

A gallery of girls losing their minds at the Women's World Cup ticker tape parade

Photography by Natalie Keyssar.

[librarianjules]

The Raven Boys: Book explicitly tells us that Gansey is going to die

Me: Ehh... let's see what happens

The Dream Thieves: Constant reminders of Gansey's untimely demise

Me: He'll be fine

Blue Lily, Lily Blue: Terrifying and abundant foreshadowing of Gansey dying

Me: Walk if off, Dick.

Maggie Stiefvater: Gansey is totally going to die 100% confirmed

Me: ...

Me: I'm not totally convinced yet tbh

[hpldreads]

Books dealing with…

Depression:

Cut by Patricia McCormick 

Impulse by Ellen Hopkins

Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Path

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Bipolar:

72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell

Find You in the Dark by A. Meredith Walters

A Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma

The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder

Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves

Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh

Anxiety:

Don’t Touch by Rachel M. Wilson

The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart

The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti

I Don’t Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz

Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets Evan Roskos

It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

OCD:

Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern

Total Constant Order by Crissa-Jean Chappell

OCD Love Story by Corey Ann Haydu

OCD, the Dude, and Me by Lauren Roedy Vaughn

Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready

Mr. Monk Goes To The Firehouse by Lee Goldberg

Schizophrenia:

Life is But a Dream by Brian James

Lowboy by John Way

Crazy by Han Nolan

Freaks Like Us by Susan Vaught

Cameron and the Girls by Edward Averett

Schizo by Nic Sheff

Eating Disorders:

Butter by Erin Jade Lange

Perfect by Natasha Friend

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Purge by Sarah Darer Littman

Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos

Unwell by Leslie Lipton

Addiction:

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Clean by Amy Read

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson

Exit Here by Jason Myers

Stoner & Spaz by Ronald Koertge

[bookriot]

Awesome Little Free Libraries

[mashable]

Life is hard

Thank goodness, these cartoon characters understand the struggle.

[crankyadultwerewolf]

Boromir no.  Stop.

[shithowdy]

lightandwinged

[offbeatmel]

Dear Blackout,

My mother has never called me by name, 

she calls me beautiful

"How was your day, beautiful?"

"Beautiful, help clean up."

"Yes, beautiful?"

And I believed her.

But then I turned on the tv,

flipped through the magazines,

saw the only thing deemed a “beauty”

to look nothing like me. 

And as all the boys chased my friends,

with flirtatious words, fawning over fair faces, 

mine received not one glance

not one word

and the silence erased my mother’s words

in a deafening, hollowing way.

But days like today,

moments like this,

I hear her loud and

clear 

(once again)

"I see you, beautiful."

"I love you, beautiful."

”Beautiful.”

And so thank you, blackout,

for the reminder, 

sweet as honey,

warm as my mother’s voice,

that my black is beautiful.

(You all are beautiful to me.)

-m.g.