#reading

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...

Jun 23, 20142 min read

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

Feb 1, 20113 min read

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...

Jan 10, 20112 min 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...

Dec 27, 20101 min read

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 20, 20101 min read

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...

Oct 4, 20103 min read

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 20, 20101 min read

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...

Sep 9, 20092 min read

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

Aug 3, 20092 min 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...

Jul 20, 20091 min read

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...

Jun 11, 20091 min read

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...

May 14, 20094 min read

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

Jun 23, 20081 min read

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

Jun 11, 20082 min read

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....

Apr 15, 20081 min read