Reading Is Good For You

Can I say I like how sassy teen librarian, Leila, is in this blog (http://bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com/)? I know exactly how she comes by it, too -- if you spend any amount of time around middle schoolers and teens like I did last year as a teacher, all that sarcasm and naughty sense of humor tends to rub off on you (of course, I think most who want to work with young people already tend to have a bit of a sassy side to them -- I know I do). I think it makes her blog 'real' and would be appealing to the young patrons she serves.
She certainly doesn't come off as a stuck up bibliophile in the reviews of books she has read, or any of her posts for that matter. I know from my teaching experience that kids enjoy it when an adult employs humor in their instruction and aren't afraid to act a little goofy -- kudos to this blogger for catching on to that. I particularly love the asterisked sidenotes she tends to include in her posts, such as in her review of the ridiculous sounding Marked:House of Night #1, as seen here: http://bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com/bookshelves_of_doom/2008/10/marked-house-of-night-1----pc-and-kristin-cast.html
Just for the record, I will never read a book where vampire is spelled V-A-M-P-Y-R-E (how cheesy is that?) and said vampyres speaks as if he or she is stuck in a badly done Elizabethan-style play.
All snarkiness aside, I like how Leila also sheds light on articles and issues that matter to librarians, such as an article on the decline in quality of Newbery winning books (see here: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6600688.html).
Overall, a great blog whose feed I will continue to keep up with long after I am finished with this class (though I'm not sure I can say the same for Blogger -- all these visible hyperlinks make me miss LiveJournal's LJ cuts, and I really don't like that I can't seem to find a way to search for other blogs or view an updated version of my own blog. Grrrr . . .).