Blog 358: December 2010

Monday, December 6, 2010

Why I Don't Use Libraries for Reference Anymore

An Opinion from Massachusetts in the November 15, 2010 Reference 2011 supplement to Library Journal. Any others?

Book Club Selections

February - The Space Between Sisters - By Mary McNear
January - A Man Called Ove - By Frederik Bickman
December - Rise of the Rocket Girls - By Nathalia Holt
October - Lab Girl - By Hope Jahren
September - The Nightingale - By Kristin Hannah
July - Ordinary Grace - By William Kent Krueger
June - The Big House - By George Howe Colt
May - Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend - By Matthew Dicks
April- Under Minnesota Skies - By Bernadette Hondl Thomasy & Colleen Hondl Gengler
March - Best to Laugh - By Lorna Landvik
February - I Am Malala - By Malala Yousafzai
December - Safe From the Sea - By Peter Geye
November - An Unnecessary Woman - (By Rabih Alameddine)
October - The Girl on The Train - (By Paula Hawkins)
September - The Annotated Autobiography of Laura Ingalls Wilder
May - Leaving Tme - (By Jodi Picoult)
April - Dial M: The Murder of Carol Thompson (By William Swanson)
February - Sum It Up - (By Pat Summitt)
January - The Aviator's Wife - (By Melanie Benjamin)
December - Flight Behavior - (By Donna Kingsolver)
November - The Goldfinch - (By Donna Tartt)
October - Zeitoun - (By Dave Eggers)
May - This House of Sky - (By Ivan Doig)
April - My Notorious Life (By Kate Manning)
February - Remarkable Creatures (By Tracy Chevalier)
January - The Things They Carried - (By Tim O'Brien)
December - Lean In (By Sheryl Sandberg)
November - The House Girl (By Tara Conklin)
October - My Beloved World (By Sonia Sotomayor)
September - The Destiny of the Republic
May - Digging to America (By Anne Tyler)
April - Alice Bliss (By Laura Harrington)
March - All He Ever Wanted (By Anita Shreve)
February - Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (By Anna Quindlen)
January - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail (By Cheryl Strayed)
December - A Reliable Wife (By Robert Goolrick)
November - A Song at Twilight (By Nancy Paddock)
October - The Sibling Effect (By Jeffrey Kluger)
September - Steve Jobs (By Walter Isaacson)
May - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (By Lisa See)
April - Dressmaker of Khair Khana (By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon)
March - Unbroken (By Laura Hillenbrand)
February - Rebecca (By Daphne DuMaurier)
January - The Hunger Games (By Suzanne Collins)
December - The Grace of Silence (By Michele Norris)
November - The Postmistress (By Sarah Blake)
October - Memory of Trees (By Gayla Marty)
September - The Help (By Kathryn Stockett)
May - I Remember Nothing (By Nora Ephron)
April - The Life You've Imagined (By Kristina Riggle)
February - Audition (By Barbara Walters)
January - Left to Tell (By Immaculee Ilibagiza)
December - Invisible Wall (By Harry Bernstein)
November - Methland (By Nick Reding)
October - Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (By Rebecca Skloot)
September - Alice I Have Been (By Melanie Benjamin)
April - The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
March - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
February - Sarah's Key (By Tatiana de Rosnay)
January - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (By Betty Smith)
November - The Girls From Ames (By Jeffrey Zaslow)
October - We Are All Welcome Here (By Elizabeth Berg)
September - I'm Sorry You Feel That Way (By Diana Joseph)
April - The Cape Ann (By Faith Sullivan)
March - Run (By Ann Patchett)
February - Confessions of A Shopaholic
January - The Last Lecture
November - Three Cups of Tea
October - Water for Elephants
September - The Memory Keeper's Daughter