[LM_NET] GEN: book vent

[Karen McLachlan <mclachlan_k@TRECA.ORG>]

Hi All,
       I must really be end-of-the-year cranky, but something is  
beginning to get to me.   Maybe your collective wisdom can set me  
straight.

As a high school librarian,  I try very hard to stay up-to-date in  
reading and/or knowing about new YA books.  In other words, I read  
tons of book reviews, mostly online.  What is really beginning to  
upset me is the large number of reviews written about books that  
won't be out for several months yet.  I, too, am extremely anxious to  
read the second or third book in a trilogy.  I just can't wait to  
read Author X's next new book.  The reviews get me all excited about  
reading the books I'm dying to read.  Then I look them up, only to  
find out that they won't be available till next fall!   &^%#$%^&*@!

Yes, yes, I know about the ARCs.  But I don't have access to them.  I  
don't have time to play the games on the blogs for the give aways and  
I know of no other way to get them.  Besides, my students would  
probably attack me to get their hands on them if I did have any.  So  
what gives with these anyway?  Are the bloggers in cahoots with the  
publishers in exchange for free advertising?  Why are so many reviews  
written about books yet to be published?  I feel like I'm hearing  
echoes of that old childhood taunt, "Naa naa n-naa naa!"

Okay, go ahead.  Tell me I'm the Andy Rooney of school librarians.   
Tweak my attitude.  But please do it gently  because I'm last-day-of- 
school bummed out.

Thanks for letting me vent,

Karen McLachlan, LMS
East Knox High School
Howard, OH 43028
mclachlan_k@treca.org




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