I only seem to be making it to the Sunday Salon every few weeks lately! But I know that some folks really only read the Salon posts, so I like to drop a little recap/preview-type thing in here every now and then. I missed Bloggiesta last weekend, and I’ll probably–at least officially–miss the 24-Hour Readathon this coming weekend. I had a good excuse for not doing Bloggiesta, but since it involved my being away from […]
The Chocolate War Robert Cormier Laurel Leaf (1986), Mass Market Paperback (ISBN 0440944597 / 9780440944591) YA fiction, 272 pages Source: personal copy Reason for reading: re-read for Banned Books Week 2012 Opening lines: “They murdered him. “As he turned to take the ball, a dam burst against the side of his head and a hand grenade shattered his stomach. Engulfed by nausea, he pitched toward the grass. His mouth encountered gravel, and he spat frantically, […]
Cross-posted from The Estella Society, which is generously hosting this project One common thread in I saw posts wrapping up Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2012 was “reconnection.” There were no awards or big sponsored giveaways this year, and no one really seemed to miss them! On the other hand, many of us did seem to enjoy a renewed sense of our community–getting reacquainted with one another and adding new-found book blogs that we want to […]
(This is a slightly modified version of a reading I gave this past weekend at the closing event of Creative Alliance ’12, a lively and enlightening gathering of about 50 women in Ojai, California. I’ll be talking more about my CA experiences in posts to come, as I have more time to reflect on them.) #creativealliance12 on Instagram (photo by Beth Avant/@HipMamaB) Exactly 18 months from (September 29, the day I gave this reading), barring […]
UPDATED INFO AS OF OCTOBER 1, 2012 If you changed your feed-reader subscription to The 3 R’s Blog to Feedcat per my post last week, it will no longer work after today, because it really wasn’t working anyway. If you didn’t resubscribe then, please do it now! Based on good reports from other users, I’ve joined the exodus to Feedblitz. Sorry to have to ask you to do this crazy thing one more time, but […]
Between Heaven and Here Susan Straight McSweeney’s (September 2012), Hardcover (ISBN 1936365758 / 9781936365753) Fiction, 208 pages A version of this review was previously published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (September 25, 2012). Opening lines (from the Advance Reader’s copy): “When Sidney came out of the taqueria and headed down the alley, he saw Glorette Picard on her knees, her back to a shopping cart parked near the fence, her face held up to the […]
