(Updated to correct a major grammar error in the post title, which will unfortunately live on in the permalink–color my face red, y’all!) When we started Armchair BEA in 2010, we had such a great time with it that all of us on the organizing team vowed that even if we had the opportunity to go to the real BEA, we’d still want to Armchair. This year, four of us–Danielle, Emily, Pam, and I–will be […]
The organizers of 2012 LA Times Festival of Books knew exactly what they were doing when they teamed John Green and Lev Grossman “in conversation.” The two authors had a bit of a mutual-admiration-society thing going on. Grossman’s Time Magazine review of Green’s latest young-adult novel, The Fault in Our Stars (my “book of the year-so-far”), described it as “damn near genius,” and he really nailed it with this observation: “One doesn’t like to throw […]
A version of this review was previously published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (4/27/2012). Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess) (Twitter) (Facebook) Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam (2012) Hardcover (ISBN 0399159010 / 9780399159015) Nonfiction/memoir, 336 pages Source: ARC from publisher Reason for reading: compensated review Opening lines (from the Introduction): “This book is totally true, except for the parts that aren’t. It’s basically like Little House on the Prairie but with […]
