¡Día de los niños/Día de los libros celebra a los niños, la familia y a la lectura! Día en su biblioteca Vamos a tener más de 30 eventos en nuestras bibliotecas durante todo el mes de abril para celebrar y fomentar el amor a la lectura todos los días del año. Reúnanse con la célebre […]
Celebrate Children, Reading and Families
El día de los niños/El día de los libros celebrates children, reading, and families! Learn about Día at Your Library We’ll have over 30 events at our libraries throughout the month of April to celebrate and to encourage the love of reading every day of the year. Join local celebrity and award-winning author Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford, […]
Keeping Up With the Book Riot Challenge: March Madness in Books
As part of the 2016 Book Riot Challenge to read different kinds of books each month, Karen and William have been keeping up with the fun and challenging task. For March, the challenge called for us to read a book in the following category: A biography (not a memoir or autobiography) A middle grade novel. […]
Music Festivals + Library Card = ♬
It is music festival season! Did you know that many of the artists who have performed at SXSW (South by Southwest for the uninitiated) and Coachella have tracks on Freegal, the library’s free music download and streaming service? A few festival headliners with lots of albums and songs on Freegal: Calvin Harris Hinds Sia And here are some […]
Review: “Scarcity: why having too little means so much”
I found Scarcity so striking in its surprises, and so valuable in its insights, that after a few months, I went back to read it a second time. The authors—a Harvard economist and a Princeton psychologist—joined their distinct approaches to explore scarcity in its many forms. Scarcity of money is the bedrock of economics, of course, […]
Los Taibo – Una Familia Literaria
Los hermanos Taibo, productor de películas Carlos y escritores Paco Ignacio II y Benito, vienen siendo héroes de la literatura mexicana contemporánea. Nacieron por eso, ya que su papá, Paco Ignacio I, también fue escritor. La familia Taibo Mahojo, como muchos españoles de su época, se exilió en México en el año 1958, refugiándose del fascismo […]
Can I Touch the Baby? Or, Copyright and Fair Use
Babies don’t stay locked up in the bars of a crib, they get enfolded into the family whether they like it or not. Creative works don’t stay untouchably locked up in copyright, either; they get integrated into the culture. When my aunt had twins, I was only able to touch them and play with them […]
Eligible: All New Pride and Prejudice
In Eligible (release date 4/19/16, reserve your copy today!), Curtis Sittenfeld has written a very modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice, including premarital goings-on, gender bending, and reality television. It’s great fun, especially for fans of the original. I was getting ready to go on a trip and needed a good book to read on the airplane. I […]
“Maria” and the Moderator
When the library’s Nuestras Raíces Committee invited me to interview Sonia Manzano at this year’s Tucson Festival of Books, I could not believe my good fortune. I grew up watching Sonia as “Maria” on Sesame Street – in fact, I don’t remember a time in my life that the show was not on. I am very […]
Fighting the Fight for Diversity!
Diversity in literature has evolved to represent modern society. We want our characters, and especially our heroes to reflect society yet remain the positive role models we admire and wish to emulate. Fortunately there are many authors providing readers with stories that incorporate a myriad of themes to reflect our ever changing world. Authors Beth […]
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