8N08: The Saga Continues

First, if you read historical romance, let me recommend a nice light summer read by a friend of mine. It's getting great reviews and if you do the genre at all, you'll probably enjoy it.Now, back to business. I've been typing my fingers to the bone (to the bone, I tell you!) trying to get my fifth exercise together so our tech department can figure out how to make it happen. I'm trying like mad to get it done before I leave for ALA next week.It's on podcasts and downloadable media and I think staff will really enjoy being able to see what the fuss is all about.
Plus, with the news that some items will soon be available for use on iPods, I think there will be even more interest in using downloadable audiobooks.

Finished The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen. I loved her first book, Garden Spells and just gobbled this one up too. They are magical!
Also, listening to on my MP3, another sophomore effort, Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos. Again, I loved her first, Love Walked In and am engrossed in the second. Love all the movie references, even though I don't get many of them!

Another debut, by Rebecca Flowers, Nice to Come Home To was like taking a walk back through my younger days. She was obviously from around my home town and I was thrilled to find out her mom was the director of a library in the county I work in. Too cool! I have to admit, at first, I didn't like the main character, but I grew to become quite fond of her. The mentions of Springsteen alone would win my heart.

Hope you are all enjoying some fabulous reading too!

Shelfari -- Readers Advisory Gone Wild

Here's a picture of our plane, which was in Illinois this weekend with my husband and daughter while I played soccer, rode my bike 25 miles and moved the kitchen. Needless to say I slept well on Sunday night. It's Tuesday now and I'm still recovering! But, isn't she pretty? Please note the dual nationalities of the flags which flutter in the breeze off the antennas.

Mary B. sent me something about Shelfari. It's a nice RA site that uses Web 2.0 to share your reading with others. Because it uses book covers, it's very visual, making it attractive to view and use. And--very cool--you can add it to your blog as I've done. SRC has been keeping us quite busy here at the library, so I've not had a chance to get any other exercises done and posted. The next one will probably be podcasts and uploading online books. Of course, ALA is coming up, followed by several days vacation, so if I don't get started before then, it will be July before I get any more done.