About Me
I am a librarian at Cal Poly Pomona. I have an M.S. in library and information science and an M.A. in English. This weblog reflects my interests in library & information science, literature, language, culture, and the arts. Click for my full profile.
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julieshen (at) gmail (dot) com
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Books I Like
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Also, I'm currently reading
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Found in Translation (1/26/2004) Edith Grossman's latest work is a translation of Don Quixote, a feat that novelist Carlos Fuentes hails as "a major literary achievement." Read interviews and reviews by CS Monitor, The Guardian, and The Atlantic. Grossman first fell in love with Spanish literature after reading Pablo Neruda, whom I first encountered rather indirectly in a translation of Antonio Skarmeta's Il Postino. |
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Gender Genie (1/23/2004) Paste 500 words into the text box, choose a genre, and hit submit. Then watch as the Gender Genie predict whether the writer is male or female. |
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Prison Libraries Need Phone Books (1/21/2004) Prison Pen Pals hosts an ongoing book drive. Lately they've been getting requests for phone books. |
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Jung, A Biography (1/20/2004) The next book on my reading list has been much discussed by The Telegraph, Financial Times, The Guardian, and The New York Times. |
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What Friends Say (1/16/2004) Women are generally the leaders in linguistic change, according to this article. So cool. |
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1421 (1/12/2004) Did Ming Dynasty Chinese explorers really discover the Americas or not? The debate continues. |
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Minority Literature (1/08/2004) There is currently a renaissance in Native American literature, but stories that depict gays and lesbians are being censored. |
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Lord Voldemort Sighting (1/07/2004) Rowan Atkinson, aka Mr. Bean, will be playing the part of He Who Must Not Be Named in the next Harry Potter film. (Update: it was just a rumor.) |
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves (1/06/2004) Lynne Truss's humorous book on punctuation becomes a no. 1 bestseller in the U.K. (Requires free NYTimes login.) |
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Sandra Mitchell (1/04/2004) Interesting profile of Cleveland librarian who adopted a child. ''When people ask what nationality we are, I tell them that I am Japanese, and [she] is Chinese . . . That kind of throws them for a loop.'' |
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Stolen books (1/03/2004) An informal survey by the American Library Association indicates that books about dreams, witchcraft, astrology and the occult get stolen most often. Others include test preparation and religion. |
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