According to the New York Times, Harper Collins is launching an on-line initiative where readers can view the full content of select books for free on-line. They have equated it with flipping through a book at a shop or the library before deciding to take it home. Most of the titles on offer are adult, but Erin Hunter's enormously popular Into the Wild, Vol. 1 of the Warriors series, is one of the titles available. And speaking of Erin Hunter, it looks as if she is branching away from cats and on to bears. The Seekers Vol. 1: The Quest Begins is due for release in May.
J. Crew, you've gone literary on us! (Will She Who Will Get Me My Book be pleased?)
The new "library print" fabric
as a skirt...
as a scarf...
as a dress...
(wouldn't this be great
for those celebrity visits to your library?)
and finally,
as a demure cardigan...
Why are there NO SHOES????
I'm going to the library today to pick up a book. It's the graphic novel, The Plain Janes, by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg. I first heard about it through the Summer Blog Blast Tour in interviews with the author like this one. I later read intriguing reviews of it on other blogs like this one.
When I went to the library last week, (which, BTW, was packed with people) I searched for it in the library's computer catalog. The catalog said it was on the new JFIC shelves, but I couldn't find it anywhere. A live (no other description needed here) librarian helped me search for it. She eventually put in a hold request for me, and assured me that when it showed up, I would be emailed. She checked my email address and corrected an error in it. Today, the email arrived, and I'm off to pick up my book.
This is quite different from when I was a kid. Then, I would troll the shelves for interesting reads, find as many books as would fit in a stack between my cupped hands and my chin, and take them to the librarian at the checkout desk. She didn't have a bun, but she was old and rather tiny, and I adored her. I'm trying to remember why I adored her, and I can't even recall her name. I guess it was because I saw her as: SHE WHO WILL GET ME MY BOOKS.
The more modern librarian the other day also GOT ME MY BOOK.
I will discretely stare at your tattoo if you have one. I will give you bonus points if you have cute little artsy glasses. I may check out your shoes. But if you can't GET ME MY BOOK, then you don't fit my stereotype of a librarian.
See the post from kidsilkhaze (
Biblio File) over at
The Geek Buffet.
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I adore the cardigan!! Thanks for keeping us all up and running in the world of literary fashion!
Oh the cardigan is great because you know it is always c-o-l-d in the library.
The cardigan is definitely to die for. Like the sundress, too, but it wouldn't look good on me. May have to become a librarian just so I can wear these things. Don't librarians have to wear quiet shoes?
Unfortunately, these clothes are not in the budget for most librarians...or writers. But it's good to know the elite college kids of the world will be thinking of us as they wear them. :)
And here I was, so excited over all the catalog photography with stacks of books and in libraries and stuff that I forgot to actually look at the clothes!
And I don't wear quiet shoes. Most of the library is carpeted and on the stuff that isn't? My heels have that "teacher click" that I always associate with authority...
Stacy London would be proud, Jennie. Click away! (I love that sound much more than flip-flops.)
Heee~!
I'm pretty sure that library print shoes are the only thing I could pull off. Okay, maybe the scarf, but we really need library print shoes. I'll put that next on my list with the lovely plaid heels...
'Teacher click.' I like that.
Word to what Camille said. When I was the librarian at TSD in Knoxville, one of the teachers referred to my cardigan as part of my "uniform," since I wore it almost daily . . .
(but then I get cold in 80 degree weather . . .)
Go, cardigans, go . . .
What's the big deal with no shoes? (guy talking here obviously! Haha!)
Mac, I totally forgot to look at the men's section of the catalog. Maybe there's a tie or socks or something for you. They had better not have given the MEN the shoes...
Hey, what about teacher click shoes with library print, only using paperback books? Sorry, couldn't resist. Remember, quiet shoes don't have to be sensible shoes.
One day, I will go shoe shopping with Stacy. It's my life goal.
Nothing lofty, just shoes with Stacy...