Liz French
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Basketball Superstars, Hungarian Schoolgirls, Tidy Bears, Gilded Volumes, Mafia Turncoats, Venomous Puppet Masters | September What We’re Reading & Watching
The "What We're Reading & Watching" staffers are watching Michael Jordan and Gene Kelly dance; reading about the lack of honor among mafiosi; experiencing displacement and alienation in wartime Hungary; mingling with British couples; and discovering the humor in Balzac.
Whipping, Migrating, Mythologizing, Wording, Bingeing | What We're Reading & Watching
“What We're Reading & Watching" contributors experience the Great American Migration; the British countryside and Brooklyn in the 1970s; mafiosi's self-mythologizing; the wit and wisdom of Mark Forsyth; and the satisfaction of smashing peach pits and whipping aquafaba.
The Book of Lamps and Banners
Quarantine Developments | What We're Reading, Watching, & Reassessing
The “What We’re Reading & Watching” crew looks anew at old favorites, rewatches forgotten series, handles horror, carefully discusses politics, blatantly fangirls Iris Murdoch, tries to love the Babysitters Club, and noshes homemade cheesecake.
Dark Tales, Crime Stories, Rereads | What We’re Watching, Reading—and Weeding
The WWR gang at LJ/School Library Journal keep expanding our interior spaces figuratively and literally, with book reading, book weeding, and little TV watching.
Utopia Avenue
Rethink, Reread, Reexamine | What We’re Reading & Watching
As summer’s longest day approaches, the LJ/School Library Journal WWR/W crew examines books and shows in a new light.
Civil Unrest, Civil War, Fantasy, Fiction | What We're Reading & Watching
In this edition of “What We’re Reading & Watching,” LJ and School Library Journal staffers look backward and forward and even out of this dreadful new normal to find answers and pose new questions.