Welcome to Part 2 of the October Friday Book Review! (Click here for my last post on The Birth Order Book.) This week I’m doing a long-overdue homage to one of my favorite authors, Gail Collins. Most people know Collins as a writer/editor for the New York Times; however, I think her greater contribution to […]
New York Times
Rowling Update & Recent Reads
I thought the NY Times reviewed The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling very well here: NY Times Review- The Casual Vacancy The reviewer saw more of the “societal ills” aspect to the book than I did, and after seeing Rowling do a few interviews on the subject, it was clear that for her, addressing those themes […]
Reading The Newspaper
I have a confession to make. I have never, ever read a newspaper. Not really. When I was a kid, I’d read the comics. When I was a teenager, I’d read the advice and opinion pages (and also the comics). But I never read the actual news. Since I moved out of my parents’ house, […]
The Rise of Young Adult Fiction
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 […]