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Author Carey Wallace‘s website asks you to send her something, anything, handmade, and she’ll send back a copy of her CD Songs About Books. So I sent her a mosaic (well, not one of those specifically), and just got my CD the other day! It has gorgeous songs about Sean … Continue reading
Tomorrow morning I’m leaving for an epic 25-day trip: Denver for one wedding, a very long train trip through Utah and Nevada, a week WWOOFing on one farm near-ish Sacramento, a little more than a week on another farm in Sebastopol, CA, another slightly less long train trip to LA, … Continue reading
Roger Sutton asks, what authors are famous for the wrong book? The Long Winter is better (he says) than the earlier Little House books; Lois Lowry’s Autumn Street (which I haven’t read) is better than The Giver. I don’t actually have examples of my own yet; I’m pondering. But I … Continue reading
As we all know, the books are really about Hermione. Or Neville. (Spoilers for both the books and the last movie behind those links, and below.) Even HP haters might want to read that first link, Sady Doyle’s “In praise of Joanne Rowling’s Hermione Granger series.” In its alternate universe, … Continue reading
Happy second round of Nerds Heart YA! After much deliberation, Allegra of My Library Card Wore Out and I chose Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson as our winner. It was a tough call, of course, as I loved many things about Tall Story. But ultimately we decided Toads and … Continue reading
This was the other book in our Nerds Heart YA round, against Toads and Diamonds. We ultimately selected that one to go on, but here is my review of Tall Story. Andi adores basketball, and is devastated to learn that her new London school has no girls’ basketball team. Meanwhile, … Continue reading
Ben (short for Benevolence), the only child of the King of Montagne’s younger brother, is an indulged wild child, raised well clear of palace life — until she becomes heir when her beloved parents and the King are all killed. Princess training and responsibility do not suit her, but with … Continue reading
Carina Chocano’s New York Times article “A Plague of Strong Female Characters” gets at most of my issues with this trope: “Strong female character” is one of those shorthand memes that has leached into the cultural groundwater and spawned all kinds of cinematic clichés: alpha professionals whose laserlike focus on … Continue reading
