Review: A Harvest of Ripe Figs by Shira Glassman
“I love you because you never tried to smooth me out.” “No,” said Isaac. “I sharpened you.” (p. 168) The detective queen is back! Shulamit of Perach and her partners in […]
Category Archives: Crossover Author
Blog Tour: Kristi Charish on World Building
Kristi is the author of OWL AND THE JAPANESE CIRCUS (Jan 13th, 2015, Simon and Schuster Canada/Pocket Books), an urban fantasy about a modern-day “Indiana Jane” who reluctantly navigates the […]
Guest Post: Alison Croggon on Black Spring
Alison Croggon is the author of the young adult fantasy quartet, The Books of Pellinor. The first volume was nominated in two categories in the Aurealis Awards for Excellence in […]
Review: The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
Paperback, 411 pages Published May 7th 2015 by Macmillan Children’s Books Source: Publisher The Lie Tree is the third title I have read by British author Frances Hardinge and I […]
Hope and Other Luxuries: A Mother’s Life with a Daughter’s Anorexia by Clare Dunkle: A Dialectical Review
Hardcover, 560 pages Expected publication: May 19th 2015 by Chronicle Books Source: Raincoast Books Janet and I received review copies of this book from Raincoast Books and as this is […]
The Allure of Hollywood
I’m not sure of anything that boosts a book’s sales like a movie deal. The recent influx in teen books transformed into film has adults scrambling for copies of The Hunger […]
The Magic of Melina Marchetta
Stephie talked about Neil Gaiman in her wonderful post on Monday and I was inspired to talk about Melina Marchetta who does not yet have the same celebrity appeal as […]
The Book Wars 