Firstly, a thankyouthankyouthankyou to whoever nominated us as one of their favourite library blogs in Meredith Farkas’ favourite blogs survey! We are thrilled and delighted to have been mentioned – there may even have been some surreptitious squealing :)
Secondly, apologies are in order for our paltry posting regime of late – I have no decent excuse, begging lack of time and an overabundance of trainees, but happily Davina has returned from her jaunt to the Australian Law Librarians Conference in Sydney, and will soon be posting tales of her adventures there and of the interesting things she saw and heard from the librarians back home.
Thirdly, and most importantly, Jessamyn alerted us to the fact that it’s Banned Book Week this week! So go out and read yourselves a book that someone, somewhere has considered to dangerous to read. Davina will be reading And Tango Makes Three (a heartwarming tale of gay penguin love) and I’ll be rereading my favourite bits of Ulysses, with which I was tortured at university, but have since grown to love. Go, read, enjoy, challenge :)
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:49 am
I’m sorry, but I refuse to believe you really like Ulysses. I may have to reconsider our mutual blog appreciation if this shocking fact is, indeed, true. I also apologise for the use of punctuation in this comment, as this may make reading it difficult for a U fan :-)
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Jennifer, Davina, congrats on your nomination. This week I will be re-reading for the trillionth time the Lets go on Safari with sounds book I had previously banned ;-)
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:45 pm
But I do! I know, I know, it’s not right - it took me a good four or five tries just to get past the first two sections. But once you get into the rhythm of it the text just flows, and it really is a wonderful book (despite Joyce’s troubles with punctuation!)
It is one of those love/hate things though, and I’m most definitely in the minority on this one :)
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:34 pm
I prefer my Joyce in a much shorter form. Now, Dubliners is a great piece of work.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Dubliner’s is good - I rather enjoyed Portrait of the Artist as Young Man as well. At least I haven’t read Finnegan’s Wake though - now that’s an obtuse piece of work :/
October 4th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Congratulations on the nomination!
I have to agree with the Ulysses issue though!