Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume is timeless. Absolutely timeless. It could have been written yesterday not 1972. There’s nothing about this book to date it. I remember LOVING this book when I was in elementary school and have been anxious to pick it up and revisit it as an adult. As [...]
Reading Hush by Jacqueline Woodson further confirms to me that she is one of my favorite authors. I think that some authors are storytellers but not good writers. Others may be good writers but not good storytellers. And it’s a beautiful thing when an author is both a talented storyteller and a writer. Woodson is [...]
Banned Books Week!!! I love this week! (Although I wish we didn’t need it in the first place). Today is the beginning of Banned Books Week which runs from today, September 26th, to October 3rd.
From the American Library Association:
Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. [...]
Wanted to give you a heads up that I am hosting an upcoming Bookworms Carnival this coming Monday. What is the Bookworms Carnival and why should you care? A blog carnival rotates among different hosts who gather links on a particular topic from a wide assortment of bloggers. These links are presented on the hosts [...]
The purpose of my book blog isn’t to talk about blogging. It’s to talk about books. So while I participate in a lot of online conversations about blogging via Twitter, Ning, or other people’s blog posts, you’ll very rarely see me using this space to talk about the actual process of blogging.
Except for today.
I couldn’t [...]
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