Is “Pop Culture Librarian” an official title?
At some point, between running a one-day comic convention for my library and hosting a Doctor Who party at the launch of the new season, I realized that I’m not categorically a “young adult” librarian....
View ArticleMockingjay Part 2’s Happy Ending: Real or Not Real?
Spoilers! If you haven’t read and/or seen the Hunger Games trilogy you shouldn’t read this blog post – however if you are the sort of person who doesn’t mind some pretty major plot points being given...
View ArticleRemembering the Merits of YA
I read a lot of bad YA growing up. A lot of predictable teenage romance novels set in predictable high schools. A lot of Mary Sue fantasy. I read a lot of novels I’m still hesitant to admit in public...
View ArticleBanned Books by Women
This week has been Banned Books Week. Celebrate your right to read with these banned speculative fiction books by female authors. The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood This feminist dystopian novel was...
View ArticleThe Jeweled Mirror- Utopian Futures
Utopia is one of the oldest sub-genres of SF. In fact, many people consider Thomas More’s 1516 treatise that introduced the term to be one of the earliest evidences of the beginning of science fiction....
View ArticleFanfiction as Reconstructive Worldbuilding
Fanfiction has long been a realm in which readers can take control of source material, add to it, and rework it with their own imaginings. It is often focused on characters and their relationships,...
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