Reviews – Page 116 – Dispatches From Wonderland

March 11, 2006

Culture and Change

Norwegian author Mette Newth is Chair of the Norwegian Society for Writers of Literature for Children and Juveniles and Principal (or President) of the…

March 9, 2006

Coming Down From the Clouds

Eloquent and elegant New York Times columnist and fiction writer Joyce Maynard spoke last October at the Valencia Street Books very successful LitCrawlYA event…

March 8, 2006

Lives nasty, brutish, and short – but depicted beautifully

The Fated Sky Historical fiction is often tricky to write, but Henrietta Branford’s The Fated Sky, is a masterpiece of amazing detail and no…

March 8, 2006

Ah, the 80's teen: Pregnancy Scares, Prom Dates, and Waterbeds

The Year of Sweet Senior Insanity Sonia Levitin has written books that have moved on since this one, but I read it because it…

March 8, 2006

Of Rebel Angels, Confused Victorians and Shadowy Orders

Ah, Christmas!The ladies of Spence Academy are ready for the holidays, as we revisit curious 16-year-old Gemma, mercurial, snobbish and wealthy Felicity and woebegone…

March 6, 2006

Not Quite Fast Enough

I don’t normally gravitate towards “edgy” fiction, but when I saw Kate Cann’s trilogy Hard Cash, Shacked Up, and Speeding at the library, I…

March 2, 2006

Multiple Developments – Far Too Many. (Warning: Spoilers.)

Now, I know that I tend to be hard on books that are ‘issue’ books, because it’s so very difficult to write a non-character…

March 1, 2006

A Real Hoot

I’m definitely wondering what took me so long to pick up Carl Hiaasen’s Hoot, considering I’d been meaning to read it for ages and…

March 1, 2006

Darker ways in Lanagan's 'Black Juice'

(Happy ReadingYA Blogger-versary! We’ve been reading together for a whole year!) ‘What If’ is the question at the heart of Margo Lanagan’s 2006 Printz…

March 1, 2006

Notes on the Messenger

Regarding his opinion on meaning in movies, a quote is often attributed to Samuel Goldwyn: “If you want to send a message, call Western…

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