About Me
I am Miss Anderson, school librarian extraordinaire. I finished my MLIS in December 2010, and I have been working in a middle school library since fall 2009. My bachelor’s degree is in Middle Grades Education with a concentration in language arts and social studies, and I am also certified to teach math. I have a very strong background in middle school, so all things middle school and YA lit are a huge part of what I write about because they are a huge part of my life.
My focus is usually on book reviews and education issues, though occassionally I dabble in random things unrelated to either. The blog is intended to be a personal reflection on my profession, a celebration of books, and a professional tool to share what I do with the world.
A little more about me (on a more personal level): I am a 20-something, queer, fabulous, extremely busy lady and this blog is my best effort at writing regularly for an audience. I am an avid reader, a baritone player, a stick shift-driver, a music fanatic, and a wanna-be world traveler. I try to have a good sense of humor and see the lighter side of things. I am not a perfectionist, so please excuse my typos if you see them (I promise to fix any I see, but somehow one or two always slip through).
Congrats on being Freshly Pressed! Look foward to future posts and catching up on past ones!
Love it!
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Congrats. on being Freshly Pressed. Hope you find blogging adventures take you into areas never dreamt of!
From a fellow MLS who is not a librarian at this time. But was (legal & engineering sectors. Never worked in public nor school libraries.)
I saw your post on the Freshly Pressed page and then found myself reading your entire blog.
I love it, there are great opinionated posts in here that make me smile. I have to say your post about the books out of your comfort zone was especially good, I read and shared the same opinion with you on a lot of those novels.
Congrats on getting your MLIS! That is so much work, and on getting Freshly Pressed as well.
Congrats on FP — I found you there! Looking forward to reading some of your past posts. I work in an elementary library, and I don’t post about it often enough. Thanks for the motivation!
Thanks, guys, for all the nice thoughts! I love my job and pushing the envelope at work and in my reading habits
and @squirrel circus, I highly suggest blogging about your experiences. Over time, it’s made me more focused at work because there are great benefits to reflection and processing my decisions.
I’m happy to find another book-loving blog to poke around on, and I particularly appreciate your interest in YA and dystopian fiction. I have been working on Mark Vonnegut’s _The Eden Express_ for a while and always found it curious that it was marketed and reviewed as young adult material. Given its themes of counterculture activity and psychosis, YA would not have been the first genre I’d guess.
Congratulations on the Freshly Pressed thing.
Congratulations! Your readership should grow by leaps and bounds now that you are Freshly Pressed. (Funny term!)
I hope you do not mind. I have placed a link to your blog on my site. I read most of the books you reviewed and totally agree with your comments. We lost our librarian to budget cuts and I have so missed staying on top of YA novels. You inspired me to order the last of Susan Pfeffer’s series, The World We Live In. Loved the first two. Have you read Richard Grants “Gone” series? Some of my MS kids could not put them down.
Thanks again for writing a terrific educational blog!
Loved seeing a library blog in ‘freshly pressed’! Especially a school librarian. Hooray for school librarians.
congratulations on being freshly pressed!
i began following you, i hope that’s alright.
(and i hope the non-use of caps while typing will not be held against me).
congrats!
very original (unlike me) blog direction. i am jealous!
Hi Miss Anderson! Found your post on Freshly Pressed
Congratulations!:)
I LOVE books! And I kind of envy you because your job entitles you free reading time and you get to be in a place with a huge collection of books! Anyway, I hope to get ideas on what good books to read so I’m now following you
Love the Blog Title!
Well done for offering such a great service to the book world. Look forward to reading more
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed! Love the title of your blog, and—of course—the fact that it’s about books! I look forward to returning and reading more of your reviews.
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed! I worked in my university library while I was studying and had the greatest time. Now I just spend all my time expanding my own library! Thanks for the different take on a couple of titles – I look forward to reading more!
I once wanted to be a librarian!
Hi!
I’ve enjoyed reading your blog that’s why I’m nominating you for the Versatile Blogger Award. Check it here: http://ilovesunsetsbythesea.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/my-first-versatile-blogger-award/.
Congratulations!
~ ilovesunsetsbythesea
I really like your page. I’m new to blogging so looking for people I find interesting to follow. I’ve also just re-discovered my passion for books and a thirst for knowledge so following you on here i’m sure will be a joy!
Michelle
Hey Miss Anderson! I just linked to your blog on my own to nominate you for the Versatile Blogger Award…but now I see that you’ve already been nominated!! OOPS!
Anyway, congrats on having such an awesome blog!
I’ve nominated you for an award over on my blog, check it out! Rules are in the Blog Awards section.
I’m 15, from Singapore. Writing isn’t exactly a ‘cool’ thing from where I come from, or for people of my age, in fact the arts scene is so dead over here, and the culture just suffocates budding writers like me. I love exposure, and this blog has been my oasis. I guess I could say I’m a budding writer, but I do mainly poetry. Getting recognition would mean so much for me, and publicity is really what I need to boost my place, and prove to people how serious I am about writing. People may tell me I’m too young, or that writing is gonna get me living in the streets when I’m older. With your help, maybe I could get a headstart, make it big! So here’s my blog:
http://filledspace.wordpress.com
Cheers! it would mean so much
I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award.
You can read about what you need to do here: http://hannahscorner.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/the-versatile-blogger-award/ and get a copy of the Award picture (http://versatilebloggeraward.wordpress.com/blog-button/) to place on your blog.
Congratulations!!!
Please note, the award is completely optional and you do not have to accept.