Booksquare

For a long time, we assumed we couldn’t write such things because we weren’t clever enough. This theory has not been laid to rest, but we now see it’s more than cleverness: it’s the fact that we failed miserably in our musical education. If only we had stuck out the piano lessons despite a lack […]

We’re off to pay tribute to the Meeting Gods again and our city is anticipating the Fall equinox and, with it, the start of Awards Season — how amazing is it that the ancients predicted the demarcations of seasons so accurately way back then? News is light today, probably (because if it were up to […]

Last night, we got into the car to hear “Blietzkrieg Bop.” It was still playing as we parked at the grocery store. When we started the engine again, it was to the tune of “Sheena is a Punk Rocker.” By the time we heard “We Want the Airwaves”, we knew something was up. Though rumors […]

At the risk of offending John Grisham fans (which is not our intent), we have to wonder: what is the point of sending a potentially explosive device? What sort of message is to be inferred by the author from a failed attempt like that? It makes no sense at all. We are slowly coming to […]

If anything, their opposition to the Patriot Act (or parts thereof) will change the world’s bizarre perception of librarians. They are not meek, they are not mild-mannered, they are not mousy. Librarians are highly educated individuals. Working in a quiet place does not mean you’re a doormat. We are hoping this changed perception will extend […]

We’re quite excited about this — it was just yesterday that we reminisced about our childhood, and Judy Blume certainly played a big part in molding the person we became. Hmmm. We suspect she would immmediately disassociate herself from anything having to do with affecting the person we became. Nonetheless, she played a part. It […]

We want to live in a world where this type of sentence is never necessary: For the first time, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has chosen a woman as president: Emily Kernan Rafferty, the Met’s current senior vice president for external affairs. We also wouldn’t mind the end of all sentences containing the phrase “for […]

If you are looking to us for breaking news, we have a confession: sometimes we hold back on stories for days or weeks. Like last week, when we heard that science fiction was given last rites. Oh yes, we could have gotten the news to you right away, but our intensive research (yes, we went […]

How would you like it if everywhere you turned, people were discussing you in the past tense. Sort of like, ah, the World-Wide Web, I knew it well, that sort of thing? We believe the death knell for the Web has rung many times (no, you have to do some research on your own; we […]

When we go into a library, we usually spend a few minutes in the children’s book section, looking for old favorites. There is some comfort in knowing that another generation is puzzling over the (rather tame) antics of Beany Malone. That the Boxcar Children haven’t aged. That Margaret is still talking to God. That on […]