I have to confess, I’m a casual reader of mysteries at best. I do enjoy the genre, when I find a good mystery that I love. But sometimes I just forget to read them. When I was browsing my library the other day (and in my household, that’s only a day that ends in y), there was a display featuring Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce novels. I thought, “Why not?” So I decided that my Fourth of July vacation week would be a perfect time […]
The magic within yourself
After reading Jewell Parker Rhodes’ most excellent Ninth Ward, I was excited to learn that her newest children’s novel, Bayou Magic, was released this year. So I quickly requested it from my library and devoured it on my train ride to my in-laws’ house. I’ve come to decide that Ms. Rhodes is one of my new favorite children’s book authors. She is a terrific writer with incredible capabilities in character development and mythology construction. Bayou Magic takes place in the bayous of Louisiana, in more […]
A beautiful, sad book about Hurricane Katrina–and it’s for children, no less.
A few years back, I was browsing the children’s display at Barnes and Noble (in other words: a day that ends in y), and I noticed a book about Hurricane Katrina that had just won the Coretta Scott King Award. That book was Jewell Parker Rhodes’ Ninth Ward, and it sounded intriguing. I’ve not read a lot of fiction about Hurricane Katrina, just a collection of poetry by Katie Ford (which, by the way is excellent. Check out Colosseum if you can). I can hardly […]
Manic Pixie Paper Girl
I have a feeling that I am not the World’s Greatest John Green Fan. I liked The Fault in Our Stars, but I didn’t *love* it. I enjoyed Will Grayson, Will Grayson immensely, but that’s a co-creation with David Levithan. I almost didn’t finish Paper Towns, because I found it really, really hard to connect with as a novel. I am glad I stuck with it and finished, though I am definitely not going to line up in theaters to see the movie. Paper Towns […]
A dystopian novel that reads like an epic poem. Not sure that’s a compliment, in this case.
My first exposure to Chang-rae Lee was an essay, “Mute in an English-Only World,” found in my Composition reader at my PhD institution. I taught it my first year teaching and realized that it had been taught for the last ten years. I received a suspiciously large amount of papers on the essay, which made me realize there were way too many papers floating around about the essay. So I had to ban it. The essay was not my favorite, either. It was somewhat hard […]
Apparently, the world will be rebuilt with chemistry. Alas for toilets!
A few months back, Lollygagger posted a review of Lewis Dartnell’s The Knowledge, which was described as a sort of real-life companion to Station Eleven. Since my fall Composition I course will be focusing on dystopia, I thought a real-life how-to guide might be a great thing to read. And it certainly was interesting. While Dartnell does not tell you how to skin a deer or make an igloo, he does talk about some of the building blocks of society that we will need to […]
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