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Get to Know Asian American Children’s Authors: Padma Venkatraman, Author of A Time to Dance

Our very first author in this blog series is the award-winning and versatile author, Padma Venkatraman. Her latest book is A Time to...

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....

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...

Monkey See Monkey Read

I’m taking another vacation from my blog. So here’s a cute picture from flickr (photo by SimonWhitaker) to tide you over. #monkeys...

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...

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...

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...

Last 20 highlights from my Kindle

One thing I like about my Kindle is its ability to highlight passages/words and view them outside of the book in a separate file. I use...

computer voice vs audiobook

Pregnancy brain has basically turned my mind into mush. My writing abilities have declined as has my drive to write. It’s been quite...

What makes a good beach read?

NPR has posted the 200 finalists for their “100 Best Beach Books” vote. But rather than this being a useful list of books I might want to...

A book unfinished

I used to feel bad about putting a book once I’d started reading it, but now it doesn’t bother me. I might feel a little bad if it’s...

How do I love to read? Let me count the ways…

I like to read. A lot (have you noticed?). Since I have gotten a Kindle, I’ve been paying more attention to the buzz around e-books. It...

Comfort Books

The Porter Square Books blog poses an interesting question: What are you favorite comfort books? Here are a few of mine: Dark is Rising...

2008 Kids and Family Reading Report from Scholastic

Taken directly from Scholastic’s “2008 Kids and Family Reading Report”: Scholastic and Yankelovich conducted a survey to examine the...

Everyone says that no one reads anymore…is that true?

Can it be true? I don’t know. I still read and look forward to reading, and I’m someone who spends way too much time browsing the web....