I’ve been sitting in our rented house in my favorite mountain town all afternoon, curled up on the couch blazing my way through the last book in the Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn.
WOW.
LOVED IT. Why? Because it was so weird and wild and exciting and completely unexpected. I have no idea how Stephenie [...]
To be really, really, super fair, I wrote all your numbers out on slips of paper (leaving out the duplicate comment and my own comment), and then did a random drawing for five names.
And the winners are:
RUBY DIAMOND!
KIMMY!
BECKY!
KATHERINE!
SANDRA!
Would all of you winners be so kind as to send me your addresses? Just click on [...]
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Look, I know we all like free stuff–for many of us the best concepts in the world are love, compassion, and swag–but this particular giveaway is going to appeal only to the true fans of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.
Here it is:
It’s the “completely unauthorized” anthology of essays by various young adult authors [...]
Yes, I know it’s Tuesday Book Club tomorrow, but it’s almost 10:00 PM here, and I’m being picked up at 7:30 AM tomorrow to begin a day with three school visits in Palo Alto, CA (truly a gorgeous place), set up by Kepler’s Bookstore (truly an AMAZING place), and so I’ll be busy talking my [...]
Still doing the slow savor on T.H. White’s The Once and Future King. So masterful. And funny. And such an excellent study of human nature. LOVE it, always have loved it, will continue to reread this throughout my life.
Also read Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to Your [...]
Hey, all you Harry Potter devotees, check this out. Notice that the deadline is next week, so if you’re interested, better get on it.
Thank you, webmaster BJ, for the tip!
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Yes, I know–I’ve missed it, too. But I’m torn: on the one hand, it’s really, really good for me to have my brain fully in my current project, and basically cut myself off from the world for a while. That’s just how it works best for me. On the other hand, [...]
Today’s book club selection from me gets double-bookmarked under Reading and Jane Austen Geekery. Because if you’re a huge fan of the BBC version (the Colin Firth version) of Pride and Prejudice, you need to give yourself the new treat of renting the BBC series North and South. Why? Because it’s romantic [...]
Thanks to Liz for bringing this to my/our attention. SO irritating. How is it helpful/kind/reasonable/compassionate/anything other than judgmental to criticize people for their reading choices? And this extends to adults criticizing kids for reading graphic novels, comic books, manga–anything other than what someone else deems “worthy.”
I proudly read YA. [...]
Thank goodness for audio books on road trips. Listened to one up, one back, and they just made the miles fly by.
You know that TV show Medium? It’s based on the real life of Allison DuBois, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and who has been able to see and speak with the dead [...]