http://www.readingrants.org
Reading Rants! Started out as a blog but is now a full-fledged website! It is maintained by Jennifer Hubert (but designed by Andrew Mutch) Middle School Librarian at the Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School in Greenwish Village, NY.
I have been a dedicated reader of this site for a long time because Erin Gaines (Youth Services Librarian at the Temple Public Library), one of my first great Librarian mentors showed it to me and I have loved it ever since.
The reasons I like it are as follows: 1) Jennifer Hubert LOVES YA literature and it shows—she seems to be as much a kid as I am, and I’m as much a kid as most of my YA patrons, so I feel she’s a kindred spirit; 2) Jennifer Hubert is no B.S.-er—she doesn’t writer her reviews to kiss author butt; 3) the site has just EXPLODED and become super-interactive and even more accessible to teens than ever (they can even have their own login); 4) Jennifer’s site has SPREAD and has actually been made into a book. Woo HOO!!!
About Me
- Joelie
- Me? I'm writing a book, ahem, SEVERAL books, on the subject. I'm a memoirist. And a librarian(got the degree but no job yet), actor, photographer, mommy, crocheter/cross-stitcher, half-marathoner, among myriad other things. I grew up all over the U.S, mostly back and forth between AR and GA. I graduated at 16 and went straight to college in Missouri. I quit, traveled around on Greyhounds, shacking up with one loser boyfriend after another and finally getting pregnant. Gave that one up for adoption (NOT a sad story--VERY HAPPY). Went back to school, eventually went to France, learned French, married a Frenchy, went to grad school, got pregnant again, moved to Texas, had a baby boy 6 weeks early (he's big now though and doing fine), wrote a couple of books (yet to be published), started working in a library, decided I liked it, went back to school to get my second Master's, got pregnant again, started writing for a magazine, had that baby (big fat girl). Moved to Charlotte, NC, had another fat girl. We're all currently living in France for a couple of years, practicing our hippie lifestyle for when we move back to the States and buy our little farm.
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