But Shiver isn’t without it’s flaws. Grace’s best friends feel rather thin as characters and I often found I had trouble caring about...

Really enjoyed this character driven book about a teenaged girl named Ruby who was abandoned by her mother and was forced by social...

But in the end (or rather from the very beginning) I was completely blown away by this book–by its authenticity, by its courage, and yes,...

I try to update my Boston Area children’s author events calendar every week. This sounds easy, but actually it’s time consuming and often...

My one-year-old and I went on another trip to the library today! Today I let her do all the choosing. But before we get to the books from...

All this talk on various blogs about whether or not writers should be posting negative book reviews has got me thinking about my own...

My 1-year-old and I went to the library today. She ran around, choosing books at random, while I went through and looked at them...

I got this book as a Christmas present, and it looked like a quick read, so I read it out loud with my husband while I was supposed to be...

Due to the nature of this blogpost, there will be spoilers for The Giver and for Inception (the movie). So consider yourself forewarned....

This book is about a girl named Aly who wants to be a spy. Her parents (Alanna and George from The Song of the Lioness Quartet What I...

So I thought I’d get the ball rolling again by doing an easy post about my book numbers for 2010 (here’s last year’s). I got my Kindle 2...

What happens when you read? How does your brain derive meaning from words on a page? My writing buddy Livia, attempts to answer these...

Here are my favorite new-to-me children’s books this year, in order by author. Last year, I used Indiebound for this list, but for some...

A weird, wacky ode to Don Quixote (free Kindle version). I might go so far as to call it a modern retelling, but I haven’t read Don...

I recently went to the Central Park Zoo (which isn’t nearly as impressive as the Bronx Zoo, but still pretty nice) and was thrilled to...

After almost two and a half years of writing full time, I’ve finally realized that I need to write. It’s not about being published for...

I blog a lot about books and a lot about TV. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good TV show as much (or maybe more) than the next girl, but...

An amazing book. I thought I’d read it already in the sixth grade and had hated it, but in fact I’d read The Wish Giver and was too...

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games was one of my favorite books and this last book in the trilogy did not disappoint. Full of...

While Anderson’s ability to immerse himself into his character and into the world he creates kind of turned me off in Octavian Nothing,...