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ALAN Book Un-Suitcasing

One of the beauties of attending the workshop of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents is coming home with a plethora of books. In the video below (~2:30), I take some of the books out of one of the suitcases (I had two suitcases and a box).

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As usual, it’s been a minute since I’ve wandered toward the blog-o-sphere (or the Twitter-sphere, since apparently I’m now using the blog to both microblog […]

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