Zombies have never really been my thing. Don’t get me wrong; I’ve seen plenty of zombie movies. I’ll never forget the weekend my little brother visited Mister BS and I when we lived in the middle of nowhere during his first year of teaching, and those two punks insisted on an Evil Dead Trilogy marathon,… Continue reading The Zombie Book for Girls Who Don’t Like Zombies: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Author: Molly Wetta
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Science Fiction and Fairy Tales: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
I’m a fan of fairy tale retellings. From classics like Robin McKinley’s twists on folk tales, to Jackson Pearce’s updated versions of Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood, or her forthcoming adaptation of The Little Mermaid, I never get tired of hearing a new spin on a fairy tale. But nothing is cooler than Cinderella… Continue reading Science Fiction and Fairy Tales: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
An Afternoon with the Merry Sisters of Fate
Last Saturday, we had the pleasure of hosting The Merry Sisters of Fate—Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff, and Tessa Gratton—for an afternoon of conversation (and a signing!) at my library. We had quite the crowd and plenty of adults, both men and women, some of whom had traveled from out of town to attend the event. The… Continue reading An Afternoon with the Merry Sisters of Fate
Rereading: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
We’re starting a teen book club at my library. Initially, I thought my school year program would be a writer’s group, but we decided to scale it back and just do a month of NaNoWriMo programs for writers, and judging by the success of that, decide if we wanted to have more writing programs (We… Continue reading Rereading: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A Most Dangerous Method: A Book and Movie Review
It seems like most movies I see are inspired by books. I recently watched A Dangerous Method, (confession: I have a movie star crush on Keira Knightley), and also read the nonfiction book that inspired it, A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr. Both tell the story of Carl Jung’s relationship with Sigmund Freud, which… Continue reading A Most Dangerous Method: A Book and Movie Review
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