After my Friday evening at Stephenie Meyer’s book signing, my husband and I packed up the kids and headed to the Provo Children’s Book Festival. How could we not show up? It was free and all kinds of authors were just waiting for us to show up and meet them. As soon as we arrived, [...]
My husband is the one who actually checked out Horns & Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson from the library. I wasn’t planning on reading it, but I admit that the illustrations are amazing and I couldn’t help cracking it open to see what it was like. Before I knew it, I’d read the whole thing. I [...]
Zel by Donna Jo Napoli is a retelling of the fairy tale Rapunzel. I knew it was based off of Rapunzel and when I told my husband that it was a retelling, he looked at the cover and said “Oh, Zel as in Rapunzel?” Okay, I must be a complete idiot or else I was [...]
Well, a few things have convinced me to take part in J. Scott Savage’s blog tour for his upcoming series Farworld. One, I had a goal this year to explore a new genre. Thus far, it’s been fantasy. I’m assuming Farworld is fantasy, although I forgot to ask! But let’s assume that I’m able to [...]
And the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award are. . . Criticism Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays (Pantheon) Julia Alvarez, Once Upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA (Viking) Susan Faludi, The Terror [...]
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