Nerd and a half

Celebrating the nerd life, being a huge dork, and geekery.

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A year of library holds

I have thirty-six books on hold, and all the holds suspended, so that on the first of each month, I'll have library holds waiting for me.

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Our Missing Books

Bradbury, Ray- Fahrenheit 451 (read by Tim Robbins) Ng, Celeste- Our Missing Hearts House, Silas- Lark Ascending Once again, I'm pulling...

Sep 25, 20224 min read

The Reading Life: the Trouble With Holds

As librarian and a life-long enthusiastic library user, I love putting holds on books at the library. You don’t have to try to catch the...

Mar 2, 20224 min read

Language studies and survival skills

The Latinist, The Lake of Dead Languages, A Dangerous Education By chance, I've read three books this month that are set in schools in...

Oct 16, 20214 min read

Scary stories

A mix of two stories that you can read for free online, a print book, a story that you can listen to for free online, and two...

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How to use WorldCat to search all the libraries

Use WorldCat to search multiple library catalogs at once!