The Cover Wars: Middle Grade Novels (New Releases)
From Goodreads’ list of new releases for children. I’m kind of excited about these middle grade books … 1. The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler Janet: Ha! That bald winged figure […]
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Step 1: Being born. Step 2: PANIC AND CONFUSION!
The reason why I decided these two books ought to be recommended for Crossover Month, is simply because being “different”, or an “other”, or a “minority”, and figuring out your […]
The Thief Lord, Childhood, and Adults
Jacqueline Rose’s The Case of Peter Pan, Or, The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction has already been mentioned quite a few times on this blog already, particularly in interviews with authors, […]
Adult Fantasy Novels That May Appeal to the YA Reader: also, A Segue
The theme for next month is Fantasy and today, you and I are going to discuss some series/novels of the fantastic genre that may appeal to those more inclined to […]
TTT: Favourite Minor Characters
The Broke and the Bookish let us pick our own topic this week. I just decided to go through their older prompts instead. I don’t know if I love this […]
More Than This by Patrick Ness
In his usual eloquence Patrick Ness’s More Than This captured my heart and my imagination. An unpredictable and, in many ways, unsatisfactory read this book (in Ness fashion) raises questions that […]
The Cover Wars: Historical Fiction (New Releases)
This time from Goodreads’ new releases section for historical fiction. As always, remember to click through to read the summaries (which almost always reveals more than the covers) and feel […]
Rabbit Ears: “They Could Be Me. They Could Be You.”
This time, still in keeping of the theme for this month, I would like to talk about Rabbit Ears by Maggie de Vries. Kaya is carrying a painful secret. Feeling out […]
Summertime… and the reading is easy
The trouble with making a reading list for the summer – something I don’t normally do, by the way, because who needs lists? Books just call me and I read, […]
Books that Cross Genres
We’ve talked about authors who may be crossover, audience that are erm crossover or read books not really targeted to them. Now we’re going to talk, all right fine, I […]
The Book Wars 