The other day, while reading the NY Times online, I stumbled across this brief, interesting article by Patricia McCormick, a young adult fiction author: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/ The article begins: If “Harry Potter” made it safe for grown-ups to read kids’ books, “The Hunger Games” has made it cool. Why are so many adults reading young adult […]
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The Hunger Games
Since this weekend has been all about the hype surrounding The Hunger Games premiere, I thought I’d re-post my original assessment of the series, posted back in September. I still stand by my opinion that while the first two books were works of creative genius, Suzanne Collins seriously phoned it in on the third. It […]
Lost and Found: A Book Miracle
Sometime during the midst of my pregnancy-related hiatus, I had a small gift conferred on me, via a friend, by the Goddess of Books and Reading. (Is there such a god/goddess? If not, there should be.) There’s a long-established used bookstore in my town called the Bookworm that’s quite popular among the local literati. I […]
Girls in White Dresses
This book was not what I expected. Here’s an excerpt from the book jacket: “Isabella, Mary and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. On Sunday after Sunday, at bridal shower after bridal shower, they coo over toasters, collect ribbons and wrapping paper, eat minuscule sandwiches and doll-sized cakes. They wear pastel dresses […]
Always Something There
On Saturday night I had nothing major to do, but I didn’t want to sit down and read anything serious or heavy. After spending about an hour flicking through movies on demand and concluding that there are enough good movies out there to fill Jennifer Aniston’s big toenail, I decided to read something silly and […]
Dream When You’re Feeling Blue
I had planned to post tonight about another book entirely, but the observance of Veteran’s day gave me a new idea. More specifically, I was inspired by my husband’s big band, currently performing in a 1940s- themed radio broadcast at the FDR home in Hyde Park, NY. The show includes 40s-era big band music, snippets […]