Librarian Avengers Stomp of Approval – Shelf Discovery
Bad books aren’t worth talking about. Good books, however, should stand up and be recognized.
To that end, I invented a new thing that I’m going to act like I’ve been doing for ages: The Librarian Avengers Stomp of Approval.
As you know, Librarian Avengers stomp around quite a bit, railing against things and waving our arms around.
In this case, we’re stomping in approval of Lizzie Skurnick’s new book Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
Shelf Discovery is a compilation of Ms. Skurnick’s excellent Fine Lines posts on Jezebel, in which she lovingly scrutinizes Young Adult books read by bookish girls of the X/y/whatever generation.
I’m always surprised to find such quality writing just floating around on the web for anyone to read, and I’m glad there is finally a dead tree version available as well.
If I suffered from Pageant-Mom syndrome and wanted to create an exact replica of myself from the raw material of some random pre-teen girl, I would begin my narcissistic experiment in literary manipulation by having her read all of the books celebrated in Shelf Discovery.
Which is all to say that I love this book and you should too. So, yay.
Stomp stomp stomp stomp.
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August 25th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Thanks for mentioning that book. heading over to amazon to check it out
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August 27th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Humbug!
Bad books are damn well worth talking about, as cautionary tales or examples of what not to do.
I LOVE talking about bad books. Doing that leaves the whole talking about good books business to people who are better at it.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?