The NYC Teen Author Festival is back this week and last night Will and I went to our neighborhood Barnes & Noble in Tribeca to check out a panel discussion titled “Inside the Mind of a Teen Boy.” Of course, this was particularly interesting to me since I continue to work on my own YA [...]
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I admit, I haven’t read a Stephen King book in years. Novels like The Stand (both the original and the newer uncut edition) and It are among my favorite stories of all time. Right around Dolores Claiborne in 1994, however, I got burned out.
When Under the Dome: A Novel came out last November, my interest [...]
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The first movie I saw this year was A Single Man, based on Christoper Isherwood’s 1964 novel. The movie was stunning so I put the book on my reading list and I’m glad I did.
This is the first novel of Isherwood’s I’ve read. His Berlin Stories (which is a collection of two novels–1935’s The Last [...]
This is another recommendation from Will, who proclaimed it to be one of his two favorite books from last year (the other being A Note in the Margin). St. Nacho’s by Z.A. Maxfield is a wonderful book that warms the heart.
Cooper’s been on the run from his past for three years when he finds himself [...]
So many stories, so many pages! Mistletoe Madness: Dreamspinner Press 2009 Advent Calendar brought me 32 short stories in as many days. It would’ve been 1,700 pages had it been a printed, bound book. This collection, however, was one of the deciding points to purchase a Kindle for us this past Christmas.
It took well past [...]
…with an equally awesome tagline.
“I was so tired of being my own fortress.” – Tom Smith
I picked up Admit One because of this line from its blurb: “Months later, while Tom serves as reluctant assistant director for his school’s production of Rent, he fears that the show’s same-sex love angle will somehow out him.” Of course the word Rent [...]
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