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2010

December 31, 2010

  • Bicycle Diaries. I like that we end up back in NYC at the end of this book, with some familiar groups like Transportation Alternatives.
    • Why people feel that driving a car makes one independent minded is a mystery to me.--I kept thinking about this this last week, cars and buses littered throughout the city...

December 30, 2010

  • Bicycle Diaries. I'm determined to finish this book in 2010, even though I read so little each day!
  • Reading the Romance
  • Letters, including a great one to Sandy from a colleague Dick Lee.
  • Parable of the Talents

December 29, 2010

  • Bicycle Diaries
  • Reading the Romance. Radway's writing is always really inspirational to me, which I need today--got a deadline.

December 28, 2010

  • Bicycle Diaries
  • Critical Library Instruction
  • Parable of the Talents

December 27, 2010

  • Critical Library Instruction

December 26, 2010

  • Finished The Parable of the Sower
  • "Steering the Craft: an Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin," by Brittany Shoot, from Bitch, Fall 2010.
  • Bicycle Diaries

December 25, 2010

  • Parable of the Sower

December 24, 2010

  • The Parable of the Sower
  • The Night Bookmobile, an appreciated gift. I feel like this Reading Log is my Night Bookmobile...
  • Cookie recipes: Chocolate raspberry from the Veganomicon, and those holiday ones with a kiss on top.

December 23, 2010

  • The Parable of the Sower
  • Choice cards, zine piles and random articles as I prepare to leave the office for a while...

December 22, 2010

  • Questioning Library Neutrality
  • "A Troubled Tradition," by David Resnik, because a friend is interested in the problems therein. I am always intimidated by science. Always.
  • The Parable of the Sower

December 19-21, 2010

  • Trying to finish Blindness for Wednesday when it is due. I think I'll do it--it was a quick read, very visceral but really true and honest also. Which is strange to say about a book that is like The Road, but about blind people. Update: I did it!
  • Jenna's Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out 2010/Lower East Side Librarian Reading Log 2010.

Decamber 18, 2010

  • Blindness

December 17, 2010

  • Blindness
  • "The Librarian as Ethnographer: Notes Towards a Strategy for the Exploitation of Cultural Collections" by Chris Atton--very intriguing for collection development.

December 16, 2010

  • Critical Library Instruction
  • Blindness

December 13-15, 2010

  • Been reading NOTHING... just wishing to get over this damn cold.

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Seed to Harvest
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Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods
The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770-1870
Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now
Critical Teaching and Everyday Life
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog



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Daily Reading Log

February 3, 2012

  • More Murakami, still in small bits.

February 2, 2012

  • After seeing someone reading the new Murakami on a train platform yesterday (and seeing that they were further along than I am--after a month of reading and not reading it), I lugged it along on my commute.

February 1, 2012

  • Started LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness, traveling from work to school.

January 30, 2012

  • "Pictures will be graded on sincerity and evidence of time spent using up your crayons." (If only all art teachers were this straightforward.)
  • More of The Marriage Plot. Probably will finish it today and look into more Eugenides.

January 29, 2012

  • The Marriage Plot. Sympathizing with Leonard perhaps too much, from multiple perspectives.

January 28, 2012

  • More of The Marriage Plot

January 27, 2012

  • The Marriage Plot

January 26, 2012

  • Started The Marriage Plot, and am really, almost guiltily enjoying it.
  • Watched this crazy PBS show where they dissect a sperm whale because of just finishing Moby Dick. Although probably not as gory as a whale ship, it's really the real thing--watch out!
  • Realized that Moby Dick is the original Animals Being Dicks:*


*Or maybe that should be Animals being (Moby) Dicks?... Now somebody's gotta make a GIF...

January 25, 2012

  • Finished Moby Dick. Wow.

January 24, 2012

  • Articles and passages for a bibliography
  • Just a bit more of 1Q84

January 23, 2012

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, through many there be who have tried it."*

(you couldn't tell our tale on a flea either--working on chapter XVIII)

January 22, 2011

  • More Melville.

January 21, 2012

  • Moby Dick on the train. Pulling out the tome made a fellow train traveler jump at the chance to discuss the book (he thought that the first and last 100 pages were amazing, but didn't like the parts in between, and wished me luck with getting through the rest of it. I'm in the 600's and not worried about finishing it, but I am wondering when that damn white whale will show up).
  • "Street Books: Anatomy of a Street Library" zine. Totally amazing! Check out Street Books!
  • This is Why I'll Never be an Adult

January 19-20, 2012

  • A tiny bit of Moby Dick, but stress city.

January 18, 2012

Official reaching-the-limits day. Read things, can't remember what.

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