BookSlut recommended reading for adults

Found this interesting. It is an adult recommended reading list from the West Bend Community Memorial Library listed under "What To Read." It links up to a website called the BookSlut. The logo shows a naked woman lying on top of a book. You get the idea.

The website also includes columns called BookSlut in Training and CookbookSlut.

Does the School of Information Studies teach librarians to maintain professionalism? Or is this the new low of professionalism that public libraries are sinking to?

Just wondering.

Some additional info, thanks to a faithful follower!


Publisher's Weekly interview:

I don’t have the background people in publishing have,” literary blogger Jessa Crispin freely admits.

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Bookslut.com, one of the first of the scores of literary blogs that have proliferated on the Web in recent years, is regarded as one of the most provocative and, at the same time, erudite of the book review sites. Bookslut has no fulltime employees other than Crispin...

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According to Crispin, reviewers—whom she pays with books..

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Working as a fund-raiser for Planned Parenthood in Austin, Tex., six years ago, Crispin started writing book reviews on her blog because, she said, “it took me one hour to do my job and I needed to fill the other seven hours.

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Bookslut was created out of boredom.

Yep, sounds professional to me.