Comments on: Choice Reading

By: Monica Edinger

Monica Edinger — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:12:24 +0000

And I read the last Harry Potter during mine! I never for a moment considered that doing so meant I was shirking my Newbery duties, just cleansed the palate for more.

By: Jonathan Hunt

Jonathan Hunt — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:38:18 +0000

I also need to confess that I read HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE during my Newbery term. Does that make me a bad committee member?

By: Sondy

Sondy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:19:50 +0000

Those books are so hard to review. You don’t want to say one word about even the start of the book for fear of giving away the twist at the end of the previous book. But they have so much new to give even on the fourth or fifth reading. Awesome books! I’m with you on lobbying for CONSPIRACY OF KINGS — before I’ve even read it! Probably pathetic of me, I suppose.

By: leslie c

leslie c — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:43:27 +0000

I bet Jonathan’s right about the sequel issue. “The King Of Attolia” especially must have been a completely different experience depending on whether or not you’d already met Gen…

By: Jonathan Hunt

Jonathan Hunt — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:23:07 +0000

Sandy, I think the Newbery committees may have felt that THE QUEEN OF ATOLLIA and THE KING OF ATTOLIA were too old. Then, too, there is the sequel issue . . .

By: Miriam

Miriam — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:15:32 +0000

The best thing about the summer I graduated college was being able to read books not for seminar. That felt so good.

By: Sandy D.

Sandy D. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:17:20 +0000

AGGGH! The release date is not until March 23, 2010 – this is the first time I’ve ever regretted not being a bigshot reviewer.

I read all three of the Eugenides books in one wonderful month last year (after they were recommended on a romance review site, no less), and have been waiting for the fourth book with more anticipation than any book I can remember. Harry Potter? Meh.

I really couldn’t see how “The View from Saturday” beat “The Thief” – but I’m even more stumped that the two Attolia books didn’t win anything. I thought they were even better than “The Thief”. What’s up with that, you two experts?

By: Jonathan Hunt

Jonathan Hunt — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:14:30 +0000

I finished A CONSPIRACY OF KINGS on Sunday night! Is it too soon to start lobbying the 2011 Newbery committee?

By: Sondy

Sondy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:12:55 +0000

I soooooooo want one of those ARCs!!!! HarperCollins, I can’t imagine a universe where I wouldn’t like a book written by Megan Whalen Turner, and if you don’t believe me check my reviews on Sonderbooks.com, and can you hear me shamelessly begging for one? What’s more, you can rest assured I will buy a final copy whether I have an ARC or not, I’m that hard-core a fan. Oh well, it’s not like I don’t have a hundred books checked out, and a few hundred more I’ve bought waiting to be read — but I assure you that would immediately be on the Tip TOP of the pile!

By: Monica Edinger

Monica Edinger — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:21:40 +0000

Yes, let me raise my pink-sugar-water-drink-that-only-looks-like-a-cosmo along with you. Hope their reading is going swell!