Via Kristin Cashore: The Known Universe. Full-screen highly recommended. Thank you for making me miss science fiction. And just for fun, a Christmas card from somewhere else out there. Happy days-between-Christmas-and-New-Year’s, everyone! (Do those days have a name? Besides “The Dead Days,” that is. I want something a tad more uplifting. “The Winter Break That [...]
Entries from December 2009
The empty places where we have yet to map
December 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Links
The Parenthetical Gift Guide
December 9th, 2009 · No Comments
YA novels: the perfect choice for everyone on your list! (Um, maybe not the babies. You’re on your own there.) Here’s my handy list of suggestions — you just have to promise to buy them from your local independent bookstore. For the grown-up who wants something packaged as Actual Literature: Marcelo in the Real World, [...]
Tags: Book lists
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
December 6th, 2009 · 9 Comments
Sixth grader Miranda walks home with her best friend every day, helps her mom study for her $20,000 Pyramid debut, and reads A Wrinkle in Time over and over again. But suddenly her life is full of odd characters: the crazy man under the mailbox on her street, and the kid who punches her best [...]
Tags: Reviews
We criticize because we love
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Why do we often find it so hard to criticize the stories we love? Why do we feel we have to deny their flaws in order to love them? (*cough*Twilight*cough*) I just read an excellent article by Mitali Perkins in the April School Library Journal, “Straight Talk on Race”. She designates five questions to consider [...]