Talking about Book Talking

Part One: Ethics
Is it okay to book-talk books I haven't read?

If I already book-talked a book, do I have to finish it? It's sooooo girl-drama.

Part Two: Lists
Books Book-Talked at WMS this month (I get credit for circ stats on all copies this summer, right?):

Step to This / Nikki Carter
No Way Out / Peggy Kern
We Are the Ship / Kadir Nelson
Slam Dunk / Sharon Robinson

I talked about those consistently. I displayed these and/or mentioned these to some classes:
Postcard / Tony Abbot
Burger Wuss / M.T. Anderson
A La Carte / Tanita Davis
Scat / Carl Hiaasen
InuYasha Rumiko Takahashi
Hip-Hop: A Short History / Rosa Waters


See my LibraryThing to search for books by tags when kids say "this lady came to our school and talked about a baseball book" or whatever.

College Readers

The Sunday Washington Post ran a compelling opinion piece on reading and young adults – YA meaning college students, in this case. The author asserts that based on popular books selling at college bookstores, college students read “young” titles that are less political than those college students read in the mid 20^th century.  There is a useful quotation towards the end that says young “'people don't necessarily read their politics nowadays. They get it through YouTube and blogs and social networks.'”

Read the Ron Charles piece from the Washington Post, here.