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Bookshelf Link-Up

November 14, 2013 by Leanne Sowul 2 Comments

This week, Modern Mrs. Darcy is doing a link-up of bookshelf displays. Naturally, I couldn’t wait to jump on board. (For those who are new to this blog, it was originally focused on books and reading. Reading was the first, and longest, love of my life.) Voila, my bookshelves! 

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: babysitters club, blog, books, bookshelves, children's, fiction, harry potter, link-up, nonfiction, novels, YA

The Rise of Young Adult Fiction

April 11, 2012 by Leanne Sowul Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Books, Writing Tagged With: authors, creativity, fiction, harry potter, hunger games, library, marketing, New York Times, novels, writing, YA, young adult

Importer/Exporter: Library Book Haul

November 30, 2011 by Leanne Sowul 2 Comments

For those of you waiting for Part 2 of the Sense and Sensibility post, it’s coming. But right now I want to share the things I’m most excited about in my reading and writing worlds. This afternoon, on a whim, I stopped by the library on the way home, thinking to restock on audiobooks for […]

Filed Under: Books, Writing Tagged With: chris bohjalian, Christmas, gail collins, kristin hannah, library, meg cabot, memoir, midwives, novels, phillippa gregory, short stories, vassar

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