Liz French
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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.
Q&A: Novelist Cooney on Switching Between YA and Adult and Writing Real Characters
“I always set out to write [characters] as people, not paper dolls. They’re always real to me,” Cooney continues. “This is the first in what I hope will be a long stretch of adult mysteries."
Miniseries, Baking Shows, Comfort & Discomfort Books | What We're Reading & Watching
Near the two-month mark of lockdown, themes are cropping up among the WWR/W crew. Junior Library Guild, School Library Journal, and LJ staffers are getting into sweet reads and viewings, cat fiction and nonfiction, miniseries and maxiseries, women power, and the joys and sorrows of family and famiglia.
Before She Was Helen
Cabin Fever Dreams | What We're Reading & Watching, May Day & Beyond
LJ, School Library Journal, and Junior Library Guild staffers counter six weeks of cabin fever with a full roster of books, TV shows, movies, web novels, works in and out of translation, and podcasts to carry us to the new normal (someday).