Here’s some good reading-related news: Contrary to what a lot of librarians (and other people) believe, college students still like to read. They just don’t have the free time to do it as much as they’d like. So say Barbara Fister and Julie Gilbert, two librarians at Gustavus Adolphus College, in “Reading, Risk, and Reality:… Continue reading »
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Green Books Campaign: “Ranger in Danger: King Cobra’s Curse”
A note from the organizers:This review is part of the Green Books Campaign. Today 200 bloggers take a stand to support books printed in an eco-friendly manner by simultaneously publishing reviews of 200 books printed on recycled or FSC-certified paper. By turning a spotlight on books printed using eco-friendly paper, we hope to raise the… Continue reading »
Slice and Scan
I don’t know how many books I own. I’ve never counted. They are not few in number. They get shuffled around, moved here and there, set aside and dug out again. Some have sat on the same shelves for years, untouched. Some wind up in a different room of the house every week or two…. Continue reading »
Home Alone
I’ve been scribbling some notes for a YA story set in Washington, D.C.–not the D.C. of power and political theater but the city I know as a resident. When I say “scribbling” I really mean scribbling, with a pen, in an actual notebook (a “legendary” notebook, of all things). It’s too early to say whether… Continue reading »
First Loves
What makes a story you loved as a kid stick in your mind years and decades after you encountered it? That question animates Laura Miller’s The Magician’s Book, which I’m reading now. Miller, a writer and critic for Salon, revisits her childhood passion for C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and tries to sort out what… Continue reading »
