Quote of the whatever.

"...computer users could be divided into digital immigrants (those of us who were trying to catch up) and digital natives (younger people seemingly born hardwired for the new technologies, or maybe it's just that they've studied computers in school). With the exception of a few very young, edgy-looking women, most of us in the room counted as immigrants - me and the silver-haired librarians. In spite of our best efforts, we were never going to master this language that those born after about 1980 speak so fluently. We could learn the lingo and tools of the digital age, but we would always have a thick accent when we spoke." (This Book is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, by Marilyn Johnson.)

So true. So true.

What I've been reading

Just finished a series I would recommend. I found myself very engaged, and read the entire trilogy in a week. (Granted, it was during the week after I had surgery, so I had a lot of time for reading.) The Sevenwaters Trilogy, by Juliet Marillier, including Daughter of the Forest (a beautiful retelling of the Celtic swans myth), Son of the Shadows, and Child of the Prophecy. They reminded me of Shannon Hale's Bayern series and Megan Whalen Turner's Thief of Attolia series, only for grown-ups, as there is a little more reference to sex (but not in any gratuitous or offensive way.) If you enjoy that type of fantasy, you will enjoy these books. I found out as I was poking around on the Internet today that Ms. Marillier wrote a couple of stand-alone follow-ups to the series, Heir to Sevenwaters (2008), and Seer of Sevenwaters (2011). These, of course, will be next on my reading list, but I always worry when authors finish a story and then come back to it years later. Often this doesn't seem to work out well. I'll let you know.

Refer to...

Posted a little entry over at Morning, Noon and Night.