I regularly contribute to a few other blogs in addition to this one. This has taken shape over the last several years and focuses on a different kind of audience though ultimately it still boils down to books, reading, teaching, and librarianship. So in an effort to share out some of the other posts that often don’t make it back to this one, here is a post to bring it all together.

• YALSA’s The Hub
  • A division of the American Library Association the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) uses The Hub to share out current recommendations for some of their virtual committees. This year, I sit on the Best Fiction for Young Adults (BFYA) 2020 committee. You’ll see several of my posts alongside other committee members’ and the other committees as well.
• Times Union‘s Books Blog
  • My local newspaper features a variety of bloggers on their web platform and for the last several years I’ve contributed to the books blog. Within the last few weeks I’ve posted:
    • Dog + Man = Dog Man: the theatrical production not the books recommends seeing the musical based on Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man series
    • Book club for one is my take on why I’ve never been a part of a book club and likely never will
    • Ballet biographies and the real thing discusses Misty Copeland’s children’s biography and seeing a ballet for the first time
    • Twinning covers reviewing the adult books Maid and The Trauma Cleaner
• Nerdy Book Club
  •  A national blog that celebrates a love of reading when it comes to children’s and young adult literature and is the brainchild of Colby Sharp, Donalyn Miller, Katherine Sokolowski, and Cindy Minnich.
    • Reading for them reflects on librarianship and readers advisory
    • Let’s hear it for young readers editions is just as the title implies: celebrating the publishing industry’s adaptations of adult books into middle grade and young adult books