As a dystopia and speculative literature lover and critic I get asked a lot why kids like these kinds of incredibly bleak books (which I don’t really think are all that bleak, […]
I feel like a lot has been said about Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now, but it is the inspiration for a thought that won’t take very long to […]
Visions of the Future is a blog tour sort of thing where five authors talk about the apocalypses they have created for their books. Learn more about the tour and […]
I, like so many out there, am a huge fan of Lois Lowry’s classic The Giver. Made to read it in school, I have since reread it and studied it […]
… and here we are. Tomorrow. That is to say, today. And today, I’m going to talk about this beasty here- Rags & Bones! You guys, I got this *sigh* last November […]
Here is my more in-depth analysis of Diverse Energies – there are 11 stories in total. As with all anthologies not all of them were wonderful, actually I really didn’t […]
I love it when we have a month that isn’t necessarily genre specific but format specific – it just leaves to much room for interpretation! It also means that […]
This month is graphic novels month, which I am very very excited for! Though I am not as much an aficionado of graphic novels as Yash, nor an online […]
War. Death. Despair. Oppression. Environmental ruin and… Romance? When it comes to demoralizing literature, dystopian novels have it all, and that’s why we love them! However, more recently, as in […]
Monica Hughes was one of Canada’s most prolific writers of for children, publishing over 40 books in Canada, England and the United States which were then translated and sold all […]
