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
Category: reading life
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
Girls, Girls, Girls: The List by Sibohan Vivian
Confession: I have this perverse fascination with popular girls. It’s a total love-hate thing. I grew up in a small town and graduated with the same fifty kids I started kindergarten with, give or take a few, so we didn’t have the same kind of cliquishness you see on Mean Girls, but it still existed.… Continue reading Girls, Girls, Girls: The List by Sibohan Vivian
Souvenirs from my Internet Travels: Summer Edition
It’s been a long time! But I love link round ups. WRITING I like Veronica Roth’s blog better than her books. She has a great voice. This post resonated with me because I also have a problem letting go enough to write first drafts. This is a cute post: 5 Things not to say to a librarian… Continue reading Souvenirs from my Internet Travels: Summer Edition
wrapped up in books 