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McBride, Lish. Hold Me Closer, Necromancer. Henry Holt, 2010. 343p. $19.50. ISBN 978-0-8050-9098-7 Samhain Corvus LaCroix—Sam for short—is not your average hero. College didn’t work out, and now he’s flipping burgers while he tries to figure things out. Working at Plumpy’s isn’t all bad, since his co-workers also happen to be his best friends. One…
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Interesting reading this week. Best quote: “Nonfiction remains the kitchen-bound Cinderella of young adult literature, while her stepsister—fiction—remains the belle of the ball” (p. 184). Oh how I laughed. Also hilarious: Cold War paranoia spurred the Man to give money to libraries to raise little astrophysicists so Russia wouldn’t plant a hammer & sickle flag in…
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Check out this old-timey e-reader from How to Be a Retronaut (via Tor.com): An illustration student, Rachel Walsh at Cardiff School of Art & Design, made it when assigned the following project: ‘“Explain something modern/internet-based to someone who lived and died before 1900”. This is her (brilliant) attempt to explain the Kindle to Charles Dickens. Well, I…
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Or not. Because there wasn’t a whole lot of innuendo in Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky. It was just all… out there. Should I have expected that? There’s a creepy naked Ken doll on the cover, so maybe that should have foreshadowed the creepy naked teen sex shenanigans that awaited. I will admit, I did NOT expect it. Holy…
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You know what I love about blogs? No, it’s not the false but liberating sense of anonymity (which is nice, even though everyone who reads this blog probably knows my name). It’s the rant factor. In person and in print, my rants always start out calm and logical, very professional. But things go downhill very quickly, and…
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Cue the ruffles and flourishes… It’s booktalk time! Here’s my very first foray into the medium: So? Do I get a hero cookie? Yeah, I think I get a hero cookie.
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Why wait for Halloween? Titus is so excited about the brand spankin new, kitteh-sized 75th anniversary edition of The Hobbit that he had to put on his Smaug costume. What a nerd.
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Halloween’s only 15 days away and I’m almost as excited for All Hallow’s Read as I am for candy and wrestling my cat into a costume! All Hallow’s Read = another great idea from Neil Gaiman. I picked up Neverwhere from a Waterstone’s on Fleet Street in real London (feels like so long ago!) and riding the…
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This book was… interesting. It’s not your usual YA read. Unwanted teen pregnancy, abandoned babies, and the ensuing moral dilemmas–I’ll be honest, it caught me off guard. I’ll admit it, I picked this book from the library’s catalogue because I thought the cover looked spooky. (So so wrong). Let’s talk appeal factors. The novel’s pacing was excellent, fast enough to maintain…
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How very à propos. Kind of eerie, actually… Tor.com writes about the Cybils Awards here. The Cybils are “awards are given each year by bloggers for the year’s best children’s and young adult titles”–their website is here. Since we are all bloggers and fans of YA lit, let’s all vote here!
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