CynthiaParkhill

Among books I’ve recently completed: Shapes of Love by L. V. Peñalba has the capacity to expand which orientations and which types of rel...

Cleared another book from my TBR list this week: I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi. “When news stations start reporting that...

I recently completed Children of Ragnarok by Cinda Williams Chima (Grade 7 and up - School Library Journal). Published in 2022, this book ...

I recently accepted an invitation to select books from the library of a local middle school that is slated to close. It was a great opport...

In Fall 2026, SOLIS Book Club will read and discuss Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross. We’re the only VIRTUAL book club at the University of C...

The National Book Awards recently announced its Longlist in the Young People’s Literature category. I want to suggest reading and discussi...

Amid ever-increasing incidents of book challenges, I’m worried by inflammatory rhetoric that portrays librarians and authors as “groomers...

If you view my posts regularly, you may recall a presentation that Professor Amanda Harrison and I made in Lexington, Ky., regarding the way...

In the Student Organization of Library and Information Services, University of Central Missouri: Our next book-club discussion will be I M...

This week, as an offshoot to my studies in librarianship, I reviewed the manual for a literature award that I am interested in, the Schneide...

This was a fun read. I appreciated Mia’s frustration with her friends for not heeding her advice, and enjoyed her solution, in the form of a...

The poll has closed and TJ Klune’s House in the Cerulean Sea was the top vote-getter for SOLIS Book Club to read and discuss in Fall 2024...

On Feb. 3, 2024, I went to a youth-oriented comics convention, LumaCon in Petaluma, California. Event highlights, for me, were talking wit...

SRCSA’s character-education focus for February 2024 is “Honesty.” Here are books from the school library, which address the character trai...

Brit, Sasha, Christine, and Abby, those student activists from Go with the Flow , are facing new challenges in Look on the Bright Side . T...

As a new semester dawns for the LIS program, University of Central Missouri, my thoughts turn to what our SOLIS book club can read next. ...

This graphic novel concerns four friends in high school and their experience around having their periods, an experience they share in comm...

A question was posed to me as part of my studies in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: How would I provide reader’s advisory for young p...

Goodreads, a “a prominent platform for book discovery,” is taking steps to combat review-bombing: a practice where people who haven’t even r...

SOLIS’s meeting on Sept. 19 touched upon its first book-club discussion that takes place on Oct. 10.