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Round Up, Part Two
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! YALSA’s final nomination lists were posted last week. We thought it’d be interesting to see what we are looking at here versus what Best Fiction for Young Adults and Great Graphic Novels will be checking out in January. (I am leaving Quick Picks off because the QP charge is so dissimilar to […]
The Thin Line between Love and Criticism
Oh, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, how I love thee. And how it wounds me that I must now talk about all the ways in which you are not a Printz contender after all (says I, and won’t I be eating crow, with some pleasure, if the actual committee comes to entirely the opposite conclusion […]
Kirkus Children’s!
Usually, I am annoyed/aggravated/inclined to roll my eyes at the casual way we use “children’s” to mean birth to 18 (see: most publishing houses). Also, the cavalier dismissal of differences between science fiction and fantasy (they’re not the same. Really. But that’s immaterial right now). Today, however, I was instead sad to find that the […]
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Anthologies, or Why Mixed Author Works Never Get Any Lovin’
This year, we have two excellent anthologies on the market for teens. I’m not talking “pretty good, you know, a few gems in there”: I’m talking consistently excellent, with some flights of genius. And I’m predicting not a whit of attention on either of them come January. The first one is Steampunk! (Don’t you just love […]
Let the Games Begin!
Not those games, although every other conversation I had today was about the Hunger Games trailer. No, I mean the annual best books game. The lists! The awards! The moments of truth! And (my favorite), the Monday morning quarterbacking. But I’m getting ahead of myself. We’re just at the very beginning of the process.
Recovery Road
This is the first book that I’ve stopped reading for this blog. I am sure this has been covered in other places, in fact I bet you’re sick of me talking about it…but just to obsessively, nervously explain, I am on infant care leave. My son is nearly 7 months old, and all the reading […]
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
Tom, Tom, he was a piper’s son, He learned to play when he was young. And all the tune that he could play Was over the hills and far away (Nursery Rhyme; this text from Wikipedia)
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