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November 24, 2012 by Elizabeth Burns
For a presentation I’m doing on children’s and young adult book blogs, what book blogs do you recommend as “must” read? The audience is school librarians, if that helps. Along with that, what are some of the reasons you think school librarians should read book blogs? Thanks!
November 23, 2012 by Elizabeth Burns
Broken Harbor by Tana French. Viking Adult. 2012. Personal copy. This is my Thanksgiving Holiday Read, a review of something that is not a YA book. (Yes, it’s the day after, but you have the weekend to read it!) Book 4 in the Dublin Murder Squad series. Previous books: In the Woods; The Likeness; and […]
November 21, 2012 by Elizabeth Burns
I’m flashing back to reviews from years past. Here is what I was reviewing in November 2007. I can’t believe this, but . . . I reviewed exactly one book that month. I KNOW. How times have changed. Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer by Laini Taylor. Illustrations by Jim Di Bartolo. 2007. From my review: “Magpie […]
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November 20, 2012 by Elizabeth Burns
And still don’t have an answer for. So, over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sarah Mesle has an article YA Fiction and the End of Boys. I have conflicted feelings and thoughts about it; in part because Masle’s framing question is “I see, in the ongoing conversation about Bella and Katniss, our culture […]
November 19, 2012 by Elizabeth Burns
As you may remember, I attended the YALSA YA Lit Symposium. And that while Hurricane Sandy gave me some problems, I did get there. My report on the Symposium was in SLJ’s Extra Helpings eNewsletter at YALSA’s YA Lit Symposium Considers Fandom, Contemporary Fiction and Transmedia. Angela Carstensen (Adult Books 4 Teens at SLJ) also […]
November 18, 2012 by Elizabeth Burns
Gretchen, Stop Trying To Make Fetch Happen. The beauty of that quote is it can apply to so many things. Kelly at Stacked has a longish post with Some thoughts on “new adult” and also “cross-unders”. As Kelly explains, the Atlantic really, really likes the term “cross unders”; they themselves say it’s the term they […]
November 18, 2012 by Elizabeth Burns
Goblin Secrets by William Alexander! From my review: “what a world! There is magic and science. Graba is a witch, with gearwork legs shaped like chicken’s legs. She uses magic to move her house around. (I know! A twist on Baba Yaga!) Goblins were once human, and now that they are changed operate under different […]
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