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Favorite Books of 2016
According to my records I read more than ever in 2016. Partially this was due to starting as a book reviewer for two library trade journals, thus increasing the volume of pages coming my way. But I also made more time overall for reading, because I love it and I work at a library and […]
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How I Got to Now: A Librarian Year
This week I celebrated my one-year anniversary of librarianship. In my application essay for library school I wrote that I’d been a frequent library user for most of my life, yet had never considered working in one until recent epiphanies changed my outlook. Perhaps I thought of it like working at a movie theater—another regular […]
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How We Got to Now
I couldn’t put down How We Got To Now, Steven Johnson’s six-part book on “innovations that made the modern world.” The book is an exposition on the theory of the “hummingbird effect,” which occurs when “an innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.” […]
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On Books
Book Notes See my archive of notes and quotes from 130+ books I’ve read. Best-Of Lists Original posts with remarks and initial rankings: 2020s: 2021, 2020 2010s: 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 Reviews Post date in parentheses. More book talking on Goodreads. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (October 2021) Paper Trails […]