Okay, someone else really needs to start picking out books for me to read. First, I started reading The Mandibles shortly after the last election and had to set it aside because the dystopian view of the United States being reduced to a Third-World Nation was hitting a little to close to home at the time. And now, on one of the most depressing days that I can remember*, other than the days my mother and father died, I finished reading A Monster Calls. I’ve mentioned before that […]
Hermione Winters’ Tale
I’m always thrilled to read books that my students recommend to me. Even when their tastes as readers diverge wildly from my own, understanding the stories that resonate with them gives me that opportunity to have a conversation about literature and tone and theme that might otherwise just be tuned out. I mean, come on, I love Shakespeare, but he can be a hard sell for a sixteen year old who wants to hear her voice represented. Enter Exit, Pursued by a Bear, which obviously had me […]
You’re not allowed to cry. It’s one of the rules.
Few things are as satisfying as starting a book and realizing you’re going to sit there and read it straight through. It is such a wonderful moment where you know this is your life’s purpose for the next few hours and you can measure your next bit of existing by the number of pages the author has handed to you. It didn’t take me long to know I’d be with Aristotle and Dante and Sáenz until the last word. Ari is 15. He’s bored and miserable. […]
“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”
I try to read a little bit of many different genres throughout the course of any given year. However, like most people, I lean more heavily on some genres than others. Fantasy, while one of our most read genres (over 150 pages of reviews!), has been a slowly growing genre for me. It took some in depth discussions with Ale for me to nail down my problems: I have a very difficult time getting my brain around non-Earth settings, and the tropes, particularly the Quest, […]
More than This
I have been a fan of Patrick Ness since I happened to come across his book, “The Knife of Never Letting Go,” the first book in his “Chaos Walking” series. He captures the feelings of those of us who suffered from the very real angst in our teens of, “Why don’t I easily fit in like others seem to? Why I am I always filled with self-doubt? Where is my place in life if I can’t be easily slotted into the jock, geek, beautiful cheerleader, or ugly-duckling-turned-into-most-popular-person role? […]
“As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…”
Save Marissa Meyer, author of the fantastic sci-fi/fairy tale mashup of the Lunar Chronicles, is back with a retelling of the story of the Queen of Hearts from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Catherine is a Lady who is about to be engaged to the King of Hearts. Unfortunately, this isn’t the life she wants. Her dream is to open a bakery, which is improper for a Lady. When the King hires a new jester, Jest, Catherine falls in love. You can read my full review […]
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