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
Tag: YA
The Merry Sisters of Fate: A 3-in-1 YA Fantasy/Paranormal Romance Review
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
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
Sci-Fi + Jane Austen: For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diane Peterfreund
Pride and Prejudice isn’t my favorite Jane Austen novel. Neither is Emma. It’s not even Sense and Sensibility or Northhanger Abbey. For the record, it’s Mansfield Park, but a close second is Persuasion. So when a new book came into the library and was described on the jacket as a dystopian/post-apocalyptic spin on Persuasion, I… Continue reading Sci-Fi + Jane Austen: For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diane Peterfreund
wrapped up in books 