Category Archives: Review

Review: Freedom Ride

Posted on 12/08/2016 by timthelibrarian

Sue Lawson’s Freedom Ride is good. Really good. Many have called for it to be included on school reading lists and it will be added to ours if I have anything to do with it. It is a terrific portrayal … Continue reading →

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Hop. Book. Chat. E02 has dropped.

Posted on 26/05/2016 by timthelibrarian

Twice as long is twice as good, right? Our second episode, Adaptations are the New Vampires, is twelve minutes of pure auditory joy about books that have been, or are about to be, turned into movies. Steven Spielberg, Suzanne Collins, … Continue reading →

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Introducing – Hop. Book. Chat.

Posted on 19/04/2016 by timthelibrarian

Jessica Holt, English teacher extraordinaire, and I have just created our first podcast! It’s called ‘Hop. Book. Chat.’. The first episode, Dragons are the New Vampires, is six and a half minutes about dragons in YA fiction. Listen here:

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BookTubers

Posted on 22/03/2016 by timthelibrarian

I recently put out a call to various people and groups on Twitter for recommendations for booktubers. Booktubers, contrary to what you may think, are not literary rhizomes. Now that I have that root vegetable joke out of my system, … Continue reading →

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The Guy, The Girl, The Artist and His Ex – mental illness and the missing chapter

Posted on 09/11/2015 by timthelibrarian

Spoiler Alert: this post contains spoilers. Big time. Read the book first. I have just finished reading The Guy, The Girl, The Artist and His Ex by Gabrielle Williams. It is a fantastic book based on the real-life theft of … Continue reading →

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