Book review: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
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...
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- May 8, 2011
- 2 min
Book Review: Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
Really enjoyed this character driven book about a teenaged girl named Ruby who was abandoned by her mother and was forced by social...
- Mar 14, 2011
- 1 min
Book Review: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
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,...
- Mar 8, 2011
- 1 min
The BosKidLit Author Events Master List of Links
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...
- Feb 18, 2011
- 1 min
Friday Library Trip: Duck, Duck, Fish!
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...
- Feb 15, 2011
- 2 min
“No offense, but…”: The book review every writer is afraid they will get
All this talk on various blogs about whether or not writers should be posting negative book reviews has got me thinking about my own...
- Feb 11, 2011
- 1 min
Friday Library Trip: Mommy’s picks and Baby’s picks
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...
- Feb 7, 2011
- 1 min
Book review: Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
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...
- Feb 1, 2011
- 3 min
Ambiguous Endings: Brilliant or Lazy?
Due to the nature of this blogpost, there will be spoilers for The Giver and for Inception (the movie). So consider yourself forewarned....
- Jan 17, 2011
- 3 min
Book Review: Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce (spoilers!)
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...
- Jan 10, 2011
- 2 min
My Reading Stats for 2010
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...
- Dec 20, 2010
- 1 min
Biased Review of a Fabulous Essay: From Words to Brain by Livia Blackburne
What happens when you read? How does your brain derive meaning from words on a page? My writing buddy Livia, attempts to answer these...
- Dec 8, 2010
- 1 min
My Favorite New-to-Me Children’s Books for 2010
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...
- Nov 22, 2010
- 1 min
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
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...
- Oct 12, 2010
- 1 min
Cute animal photo: Red Panda (oh, and a list of Red Panda books)
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...
- Oct 4, 2010
- 3 min
My epiphany: it’s about the writing, stupid
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...
- Sep 20, 2010
- 1 min
10 Reasons Why Books are Better than TV
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...
- Sep 13, 2010
- 2 min
Book Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry
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...
- Sep 7, 2010
- 2 min
Book review: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (spoiler free)
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...
- Aug 23, 2010
- 1 min
Book Review: Feed by M. T. Anderson
While Anderson’s ability to immerse himself into his character and into the world he creates kind of turned me off in Octavian Nothing,...
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