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Do we really need to stop these words? 10 Aug 2013 | 01:36 am
Lately I’ve been noticing an increasing trend of people who are really upset over words and phrases popularly used on the internet. image courtesy of ‘Your Opinion is Wrong.’ The Bloggess (who I LOV...
“You forget everything,” Or Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac 9 Jul 2013 | 04:19 am
Occasionally, I like to switch things up a bit, and review a current book rather than one I read back then. Today is one of those days with Gabrielle Zevin’s Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. Naomi is a...
“He would be on the commercial…” Or The TV Kid 22 May 2013 | 03:58 am
Betsy Byars sure knows how to write a melancholy kids book. This book is nearly, but not quite as depressing as The Cartoonist, and as The Pinballs. Lennie lives with his mom in the Fairlyland Motel....
Mary Anne Saves the Day: the graphic novel 1 May 2013 | 09:30 pm
I’d seen the Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels at my local comic shop, but they are a little on the pricey side for my tastes, as graphic novels usually are. So I’ve kind of been on the lookout for the...
Classic Post: Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth 25 Apr 2013 | 11:32 pm
I know. Two classic posts in a row? I just found out that E.L. Konigsburg died today and I wanted to honor her by reposting this, which I had originally posted in March 2010. Rest in Peace, Ms. Konisb...
Classic Post: At the Movies 5 Apr 2013 | 01:42 am
Roger Ebert died today. In his honor, I am reposting this blog I wrote in August 2010 about his show, At the Movies. I credit Ebert, along with his sidekicks Gene Siskel and Richard Roeper with teachi...
“How are your niblets growing in?” Or, Beanpole 24 Feb 2013 | 12:18 am
I had this memory of having read a book with a character named Queenie Paxton in it, but I could never remember exactly what the book was. Then I was at the used book store buying my son several Magic...
“I prefer not to.” Or, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place 11 Feb 2013 | 12:14 am
I didn’t read this book when I was a teenager. In fact, I was already married when this book was published. But, and I’m aware this makes me a bad Y.A. fan, I didn’t even know that E.L. Konigsburg was...
“Right to the heart. He’s good.” or, Ender’s Game 29 Jan 2013 | 01:52 am
Guys. This book was first published in 1977, the year I was born. I was sort of a late-comer to enjoying things like sci-fi, fantasy, and graphic novels, so there is no way in hell I would have read t...
So this came in the mail yesterday. 23 Jan 2013 | 10:51 pm
That’s right. Last week Scholastic had a Baby-Sitters Club Twitter party, complete with prizes for trivia contests. The winners got a copy of The Summer Before signed by Ann M. Martin. This was my pri...
