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Gary Schmidt’s The Wednesday Wars and Okay for Now 24 Jul 2011 | 07:44 am
Schmidt, Gary D. The Wednesday Wars. Sandpiper. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. _ _ _ . Okay for Now. Boston: Clarion, 2011. I need to think a little about these two books by the same author because...
David Bainbridge’s Teenagers: A Natural History. 18 Feb 2010 | 01:05 pm
Bainbridge, David. Teenagers: A Natural History. Greystone. Vancouver: D & M, 2009. This is an incredibly bone-headed book, and I’m wanting to take a closer look at why because it seems to represent...
Drafting 14 Jul 2009 | 02:28 am
I’ve now actually begun to write a draft of one of the chapters in my study of alternating narratives, and so I’m feeling less need to make notes here on the books I’ll be considering–which is why the...
Julie Lawson’s The Ghost of Avalanche Mountain and Destination Gold! 30 May 2009 | 02:44 am
Lawson, Julie. The Ghost of Avalanche Mountain. Toronto and New York: Stoddard Kids, 2000. - - -. Destination Gold! Victoria: Orca, 2000. In an article published a few years ago in CCL/LCJ, I w...
Julie Lawson’s White Jade Tiger 28 May 2009 | 03:45 am
Lawson, Julie. White Jade Tiger. 1993. Toronto: Sandcastle Dundurn, 2006. The text is a traditional third person past narrative, usually focalized through the central character, Jasmine, but frequ...
E.R. Franks’s Life is Funny, One More Time 27 May 2009 | 01:07 pm
I’ve found a review of Life is Funny, discussed in my last post, that I wrote back when the book was pubished in 200. It takes quite on different slant on some of the same aspects of the novel: Life...
E.R. Franks’s Life Is Funny 27 May 2009 | 01:00 pm
Frank, E.R. Life is Funny. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000. This is another example of a series of fairly separate short stories each focalized from a different first-person present point of vie...
Dennis Foon’s Skud 25 May 2009 | 03:59 am
Foon, Dennis. Skud. Toronto Groundwood, 2003. Four boys who attend the same high school all face problems relating to their understanding of what it means to be masculine. As a result, at least thr...
Conventional Attributes of Masculinity 25 May 2009 | 03:08 am
Some of the novels I’ve been looking at lately, and plan to do some thinking about in entries here, revolve around ways in which their male characters think about their maleness and what it might mean...
J.L. Powers’s The Confessional 23 May 2009 | 05:58 am
Powers, J.L. The Confessional. New York: Knopf, 2007. The El Paso Chamber of Commerce must have hit men out gunning for J.L. Powers, the author of this book–or if not, they should have. It makes l...
