Our library is hosting the three authors of the forthcoming Curiosities: A Collection of Short Stories, which I reviewed here (and also shared a fun story about reading a couple of the stories to some juvenile delinquents here). But I hadn’t read any of the novels written by Tessa Gratton, Maggie Stiefvater, or Brenna Yovanoff and wanted to… Continue reading The Merry Sisters of Fate: A 3-in-1 YA Fantasy/Paranormal Romance Review
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On Voting: Primaries and NPR’s Top 100 Teen Novels
Yesterday was primary election day in my state. Our leaders passed one of those controversial picture ID voting laws, which seems ridiculous when turnout is expected at 18%. You’d think those in charge would want to encourage, rather than discourage, participation. The most important races I can’t vote in because I’m not a registered Republican.… Continue reading On Voting: Primaries and NPR’s Top 100 Teen Novels
Curioser and Curioser: The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories
I’m not generally a fan of short stories. They tend to leave me unsatisfied. Fortunately, The Curiosities: A Collection is so much more than just a book of short stories. The tales grew out of Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff’s collaboration as The Merry Sisters of Fate, a blog where they write in… Continue reading Curioser and Curioser: The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories
Miss Kitty Reads
Miss Kitty, as she is sometimes called, is a very bookish cat. She loves her Kindle.
A Classic, Updated: A Review of the Innocents by Frances Segal
I discovered Edith Wharton my sophomore year of college when I took an English course called Major Women Writers. We met once a week on Wednesday evenings to dissect Virginia Wolf and Willa Cather and Zora Neale Hurston. It was one of my favorite classes of my entire career—and I went to college for a long… Continue reading A Classic, Updated: A Review of the Innocents by Frances Segal
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