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| Display Name: | Jody W. |
| About me: | I'm a Teen Services librarian here at Hennepin County Library. I like going to SF and comics conventions, gardening, travel of all kinds, and hanging out with friends and family. |
| Reading Interests: | I'm a big speculative fiction fan who also likes the happy endings found in romance novels. I really enjoy graphic novels and Young Adult novels, and am doing my best to learn even more about both. |
| Jody W.'s Comments |
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 Dune by Frank Herbert This novel won the Nebula Award in 1966. More than 30 years later it’s still fascinating and a great adventure story. It’s kind of like Lawrence of Arabia meets Star Wars. posted Feb 19, 2010 at 10:49AM
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 The Jane Austen book club by Fowler, Karen Joy. I love how Austen's books bring such a diverse group of women (and a man) together and how their own stories play out in this novel. posted Jan 20, 2010 at 3:09PM
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 Worldwar : upsetting the balance by Turtledove, Harry. Book 3 in the Worldwar series posted Oct 2, 2009 at 12:51PM
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 Worldwar : tilting the balance by Turtledove, Harry. Book 2 in the Worldwar series posted Oct 2, 2009 at 12:51PM
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 Worldwar : striking the balance by Turtledove, Harry. Book 4 in the Worldwar series posted Oct 2, 2009 at 12:51PM
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 Clueless [videorecording]
This is one of my all-time favorite versions of Emma and has an awesome soundtrack. posted Sep 11, 2009 at 2:37PM
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| Women who run with the werewolves : tales of blood, lust, and metamorphosis
Collected by a former Minneapolis editor, these horror short stories have darkly erotic elements. posted Jun 19, 2009 at 12:50PM
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 Wicked game by Smith-Ready, Jeri From the author: "The vampires in my new novel Wicked Game are culturally and psychologically stuck in the era in which they died. They speak the slang and wear the fashions of their original lifetimes. This intimate connection with the past makes them excellent disc jockeys, each with his or her own show on independent radio station WMMP-FM. But it also makes it hard for them to cope with our modern world." posted Jun 17, 2009 at 11:01AM
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 Kitty and the midnight hour by Vaughn, Carrie Kitty's a werewolf DJ who starts a late night radio program for the "supernaturally disadvantaged" and brings a whole world of hurt down on her head. First of a really good series. posted Jun 17, 2009 at 10:56AM
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 Strange angels by St. Crow, Lili Loved this book! Kind of like Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Supernatural. Dru kicks butt as an emotionally tormented action heroine. posted Jun 17, 2009 at 10:54AM
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| Jody W.'s Book Lists | |
| Tiptree Award Honor List (42 titles)
an annual literary prize for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender | |
| Tiptree Award (11 titles)
an annual literary prize for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender | |
| Fantasy: If you have time for only one... (16 titles)
Stand alone books (not part of series) | |
| If You Liked...Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson (15 titles)
Specifically protagonists like Lisbeth Salander | |
| CONvergence Young Adult Lit Panel 2010 (29 titles)
On Saturday July 3 at 5 p.m. I'll be sitting on a panel recommending these YA titles to attendees of CONvergence, a local science fiction convention. | |
| From Beyond the Grave (9 titles)
Although these authors are dead, their pen names live on through ghost writers. | |
| Can't Sleep, Clown Will Eat Me (11 titles)
Bart Simpson may have made this quote famous but I think it's a sentiment many of us share. These titles should not be read by anyone with coulrophobia (fear of clowns) | |
| Steampunk (23 titles)
This story is powered by steam! And awesome punk gothic Victorian design. | |
| If You Liked...Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill (12 titles)
Horrorific reads. | |
| Starting High School? (13 titles)
Stories about what it's like to begin one of the scariest, funnest, awfulest, most exciting times of your life. | |
| Girl Power! (27 titles)
Kick ass teen heroines | |
| Science Fiction and Fantasy as Literature (18 titles)
criticism, cultural analysis and more | |
| Steal from the Rich to Give to the Poor (17 titles)
Robin Hood themed fiction | |
| Classic Mashups (12 titles)
What do you get when you take a classic work and add some crazy genre tropes? A very fun read. | |
| CowPunk (6 titles)
You may have heard of cyberpunk and maybe even steampunk. Does cowpunk exist? Here's some fantasy stories with a Western vibe. | |
| I Need a Hero (or Really Cool Villain) (25 titles)
Best superhero comics | |
| It's the End of the World as We Know It (74 titles)
dystopias, apocalypses and post-apocalypses | |
| Unconventional (25 titles)
Conventional "wisdom" gets turned on its head. | |
| Book Club Fun (11 titles)
Finding books and finding fun for your book club. Includes help running book discussions. | |
| Books Featuring Book Clubs (9 titles)
Kinda meta. | |
| Shakespeare Redux (31 titles)
Started because of a list created by Julie Davis in VOYA. Love this idea! Stories based on the life and plays of Shakespeare. | |
| Great SF/Fantasy/Horror Authors You May Not Have Heard Of (38 titles)
Tweeted the question to the world in June 2009 and these are the authors I got back... | |
| Crawford Fantasy Award: Nominees and Winners (88 titles)
The Crawford Award is given to a fantasy novelist whose first fantasy book was published during the preceding 18 months. It's one of several awards presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and is presented at the conference each March in Ft. Lauderdale. ~ Locus Magazine's annotation | |
| Philip K. Dick Award Nominees (26 titles)
Best paperback original in the U.S. | |
| Fantastique (46 titles)
Fantasy books. | |
| Walk on the Wild Side: Werewolves and Shapechangers (27 titles)
Moonlight casts dark shadows in these stories. | |
| Urban Fantasy: Life on the Dark Other Side (67 titles)
City streets become even more mysterious at night when you fear you may run into vampires, werewolves, and dark fey, oh my! | |
| Fairy Tales Retold (97 titles)
The old stories wearing new trappings. | |
| The Rockin' Dead: Zombies (36 titles)
They walk, they shamble, they ooze, they're hungry for Braaiins! | |
| World Fantasy Award Nominees (14 titles)
An award given by their artistic peers in the fantasy genre. | |
| Twisted Histories (24 titles)
I'm a big fan of alternate history which imagines what the world would have been like if something did NOT happen the way it played out in the history books. | |
| Hollyweird (19 titles)
I love movies and reading about them. Some of these titles are straight cinema history, many just amuse me because Hollywood brings out the worst in people. | |
| Jane Austen, Spinning in Her Grave (54 titles)
Mashups, prequels, sequels and more! | |
| What is this Web 2.0 of which you speak? (20 titles)
And why should you care? Baffled by teh Interwebs like me? Does l33t confuse you? Why do people love lolcats? These books may not answer all of these questions but they do give you some interesting insights. | |
| What's Jody Reading? (7 titles)
One of the librarians for the Fantasy/SF/Horror Bookspace shares what is currently on her reading shelf. | |
| Creepy Cool books (18 titles)
Books that are kind of scary but really cool |
