Having a 7-year-old and working in a high school, I don’t usually play the “kids today have it so easy” card. Being a kid is HARD now. However, modern kids do have one big advantage over those of us… more →
Cannonball Read IVwrote 4 months ago: Having a 7-year-old and working in a high school, I don’t usually play the “kids today have it so ea … more →
wrote 4 months ago: I picked up the first book of Suzanne Collins’ Underland Chronicles series to see if it would be goo … more →
wrote 4 months ago: I made it!!!! I knew I could read 52 books in a year (and probably do most years), but I wasn’t sur … more →
wrote 4 months ago: My son picked up Brandon Mull’s Fablehaven, but I “stole” it from him so that I could it out just in … more →
wrote 4 months ago: John Green’s Paper Towns is about a boy’s quest to find his missing neighbor, the lovely Margo. Que … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Checking out the Newberry award winners’ shelf at the library while little Pug browsed the Garfield … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret symbolizes an important moment in my life: it was the … more →
wrote 4 months ago: In one of my very favorite short stories, “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” by Sherman … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Continuing my David Levithan mania, I picked up Are We There Yet? Sadly, through no fault of the no … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Daniel Handler’s Why We Broke Up begins with the thump of a box dropped on a porch. The box contain … more →
wrote 5 months ago: I picked up David Levithan’s Boy Meets Boy immediately after reading Will Grayson Will Grayson, whic … more →
wrote 5 months ago: As I continue making my way through the novels of John Green, it’s occurred to me that I don’t reall … more →
wrote 5 months ago: This is the second novel my husband has found in the library’s audiobook collection and recomm … more →
wrote 5 months ago: My husband recommended David Benioff’s novel City of Thieves, which he discovered in our library’s a … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Having read The Fault in Our Stars, I decided to continue working my way through John Green’s novels … more →
wrote 5 months ago: I read about Frank Portman’s King Dork on Pajiba when news came out about the movie rights. It seem … more →
wrote 5 months ago: This sequel to Blackout was quite good, and I’m glad I finally got to read it. Like I said in my Bl … more →
wrote 5 months ago: I picked up this book at the conference a couple of years ago, and I like to pull it out and re-read … more →
wrote 5 months ago: I’m not sure how I missed John Green until now. A student recommended his books, and I began with T … more →