The View from the Leslie Library Windows: Monday November 19th

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Monday November 19th

Was totally busy after work and forgot to post anything! Same thing last night! So you get both Monday and Tuesday on Wednesday! Monday morning I headed over to LMSS for our Pathway. From 7:30 to 11am. We are discussing our book read for the session, Reimagining Libraries. We had some great discussions on spaces (our new LMA is upset about how crowded his tables are in the library but his principal won’t let him change them, so I noted that when I came in, our tables were scrunched together and I decided I needed to check their ADA measurements got my tables the way I wanted with no qualms from my principal when I said it was now ADA and suggested to our new LMA also try that avenue, we’ll see!), inventory (which I obviously did not pay much attention to - see tomorrow’s post) played with our LMSS Makerspace sets. Then as things wound down I was ‘Oh, can we pick our new books now????’ Yes!! Every year we get a free pick day on all the books that LMSS has received from vendors and publishers over the last year. We each got to pick ten books and then some extras from a few other shelves. We stamp them, load them on carts and LMSS gets them ready for us. A good morning! Then I had three hours until I needed to be at Leslie. I could have gone in, but then wouldn’t be there for conferences with parents hopefully getting our students awesome books! Had lunch, mailed a package, took a nice walk in our lovely sunny weather, then time to go back to work. I pulled all the stuff out of my office and put it out on tables for people to peruse. Then I have my aides do book reviews and I still hadn’t written them up for our binder of book ideas from the first six weeks, so I sat down to work on that. Kind of sad that I should have had 14 reviews, but only got in 8. It’s the only thing I really ask them to do academically, and so far I have never failed a student (I only get to pass or fail them - no grades) because they do work really hard for me checking in and out and putting their books away. They love to do the physical work! Which is a good thing! Did have lots of parents in buying for the evening conferences. Met my head goal! So tomorrow will be better!

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What I'm Reading

The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris was a great non-fiction read! Love a good non-fiction! Joseph Lister worked hard, studied hard, never gave up on his ideas that something outside was causing untold numbers of people to die after surgery. His quest to find the answer was long overdue and he was the one to craft it and make it a medical standard. Brilliant!
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho was so good. I liked it even better than Stamped. His honest and open look at what is was like for him growing up really brings the issues into focus. Highly recommended!
Verify by Joelle Charbonneau - what if everything went digital which gave the government and people in power a way to change history, past and current. What happened to some words, like the word 'verify' that is no longer in the digital dictionary. Meri has lost her mom and her dad drowns sorrow in liquor. Meri is entranced by her mom's last art pieces and is given a slip of paper (the horror! what about the trees? recycling?) and on it is the word 'verify'. Atlas gives her a dictionary, a paper one and an old history textbook. Meri jumps on the train with him so they can change the world.
Kalahari by Jessica Khoury - what a ride! I even took this home one night to finish! Sarah lives with her dad doing research deep in the Kalahari. A group of students are sent to see if they can qualify for a grant and when her dad goes missing when he heads off after poachers, she is left to take care of them. Her dad doesn't return and the poachers are after them. They come across a white lion stalking them, but wait? It isn't white it's something else. They come across a lab and realize there is a virus, that has been let loose on the Kalahari that could destroy the whole world. So exciting!! Great ending as well!
The Year of the Buttered Cat by Susan Haas with Lexi Haas - Okay. I have to admit that I got this book because of the title. Buttered cats, what an intriguing thought! But the real intrigue is the persistence, the optimism of Lexi. Because of jaundice, she was disabled and this story is about her decision to take a chance on ground breaking surgery to try and get some mobility, speech and live her gifts. She has five she had to find. Read it for Lexi (and maybe to find out about that buttered cat).
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram. There are spaces only you can fill, and Darius learns this as his family travels to Iran to see his grandfather who is dying. Along the way he deals with his depression, makes a friend, has innumerable Star Trek references and also learns that it's okay, to not be okay. I must admit, I had to look up some of the places he got to visit. What a rich heritage. I thought Zoroastrians were long gone, but no, they are still practicing today in Iran. Great book, totally okay.
The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin - perfect book lover tale of a woman captivated by a man and a bookstore and how she made more impact on her fellow book lovers and the man who got her to read than any bomb that fell during the Blitz. Very lovely!
The Girl From the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat - Lovely WW2 story by Jenny who actually grew up on one of the Channel Islands. Hedy fled Austria only to find her island haven invaded by the Germans. And though she is wary, she falls in love with a German officer. The twists and turns of German occupation test them both as each find a way to help the allied forces win.
Ancestor Approved edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith. I loved these short stories that all center around a modern day Native American Powwow. My fave was Rez Dog and they were all a great window into culture that I have rarely seen. I watched some videos on Fancy Dancing because of this and I would love to attend one, but feel a bit like a looky loo if I did. Fun, eye opening and full of information. Loved it!
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams Loved this fictionalized tale of the daughter of one of the lexicographers of the first ever Oxford Dictionary. As Esme goes from hiding under the sorting table, to one day being a lexicographer herself, we see her story unfold along with the people attached to the dictionary. It was really wonderful as we glimpsed her life and how the words she found and rescued formed the backbone of this novel. Really well done. It will stay on my shelves.