I'm hoping to go both days! It depends on if my rideshare thing works out or not. :D

I'm already behind on Alcatraz, but I liked the first episode(s) I saw! Mainly I was impressed that the main detective character was a lady, lol.

Also, about the ALA drama: I'm guessing lots of posts about it will start showing up this week, but meanwhile here's a really good one that goes over most of the issues discussed during the drama: http://www.stackedbooks.org/2012/01/librarians-bl...

Please do come to ALA in June! I'm going to be there, and I want to meet all the bloggers I can in person. :D

I feel the same! If I don't know you well enough how will I know what sort of book you'd enjoy? Plus, whenever people ask me questions that require me to remember large amounts of info, I invariably end up forgetting that info anyway. So I'm no help either way.

I suppose what I should do is just try to remember one really good book and recommend that all the time. It could work!

I think I'm basically reading the same kinds of books I was reading five years ago, only there's more of a mix between age brackets. I recently got rid of a ton of books myself-- I'd stockpiled them through library books sales and while at the time I thought I'd read them pretty quick, I actually hadn't read all that many of them. I didn't see myself reading them within the next year or so, so I got rid of them!

I also have an ereader and I've been stockpiling freebie books on it for a while now, haha! I feel less bad about those, though, because they're free and don't take up much room. I DID delete a few I knew I'd never read, though! It's nice to clean out the TBR shelves somethings, I think.

Eek, good luck with your upcoming trip! I've been wanting to visit Mexico for ages, but the language barrier really worries me. I know a bit of Spanish, but nothing really useful. (Donde esta la biblioteca? is about the most complex thing I know, haha!)
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Oooo, Darkest Powers books! Those were among my favorites of the books I've read this year. :D

"Teenagers who are going to have sex are going to do so no matter what they are taught in school and teenagers who are smart enough to abstain from sex during this time are not stupid enough to change their minds and have sex based on that same course."

Exactly! It's not like someone goes to a sex ed class, learns about condoms, and suddenly decides to go out and have sex the next day. If they DO, though? At least they know how to protect themselves and their partner!

Aw, that's terrible that kids made fun of you for liking to read. :( Thank goodness you didn't let it keep you from doing what you love!
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I'm so bad about dumping books that aren't doing it for me (especially if I've told other people I'm reading it!). I always think that it'll get better soon, or I just have to get used to the writing, etc. Sometimes that's been true but mostly it hasn't, haha!
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When I first started using Twitter I was SO. NERVOUS about talking to famous people/favorite authors/etc. But eventually, after doing it for a while, I've gained more confidence and now I tweet at everyone! Even if they don't tweet me back! (When they do, though, it basically makes my day.)