Nov 23 2011
Dear Ms. Harrington, I’ve been wanting to read more YA; the genre seems to have changed so much since I was a, well, young adult. There are so many fresh and exciting YA books being written these days, and that’s exciting to me, especially when I’ve just finished my umpteenth uninspired English historical. Even though(…)
Sep 10 2011
Dear Ms. Healey, There are two things I continually look for in books: stories set places not in the U.S. and stories featuring diverse characters. While books do feature more of the above these days, I still think there’s room for improvement. One of the reasons why I’ve been reading more YA during the past(…)
Jul 24 2010
Dear Ms. Fox: Kym Hinton recommended this book to me. Now, she edited it (and I assume accepted it for publication at Carina), so she was slightly biased, but, despite my trepidation with the first person, I’m so glad I read it. This is a debut, so you don’t have a backlist I can glom,(…)
May 27 2010
***WARNING: There will be spoilers in this review for the two previous books in the series. I will also discuss (with author’s permission) a plot point in this book that may or may not be considered a spoiler. I will mark the potential spoiler for THIS book more clearly.*** Dear James. I immersed myself in(…)
Jun 1 2009
Dear Mr. Asher, Not too long ago I wrote a review for this site, my first review. I’m a writer not a reviewer but that book moved me, almost unbearably. At the time, I couldn’t imagine another book moving me as much. I stand corrected. Your book, THIRTEEN REASONS WHY . . . where do(…)
Sep 24 2008
I read about the death of David Foster Wallace last week and was struck by the remarks he made at Kenyon College, just a few years before he took his own life. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master. This, like many clichés, so lame(…)
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