Reviews – Page 117 – Dispatches From Wonderland

February 14, 2006

Gritty Realism with a Purpose

I don’t often gravitate towards novels you’d describe as “edgy” or “gritty.” Often I find them to be all grit and no substance, if…

February 8, 2006

Spoken Word Novels: Breaking Out!

There’s something really cool about Paul Fleischman (aside from him being the son of the bearded and fabulous writer Sid Fleischman). I first encountered…

February 7, 2006

No Longer the Promised One

I read cover copy fairly often when picking up a book in the library. I scrutinize the covers and glance through the first chapter…

February 3, 2006

Action, Adventure, Spies Like…Them

When I was growing up, I had a.) a crush on this boy named Danny and b.) a really tweaked way of showing it:…

February 1, 2006

Locked Away

When I randomly ran across The Game at my local library, by Canadian author Teresa Toten, my interest was piqued. It had been nominated…

January 25, 2006

Brilliance in iambic pentameter

I have a stack of the novels of Sarah Dessen sitting next to my bed, and wanted to do a mass posting/reading on the…

January 21, 2006

LBD: Les Bambinos Dangereuses

“Mean girl” books, my Secret Agent Man tells me, are falling out of vogue, and stories of happy girls are all the rage. My…

January 12, 2006

Breaking the Rules

My mother and I were talking about books – as we often do, since I’m a writer and she’s an English/Humanities teacher – and…

January 12, 2006

A light in the closet: Narnia

Contrary to columnist Mark Morford’s rather dim view of the Narnia Chronicles, our intrepid writing group determined this week that Narnia still holds a…

January 8, 2006

Comic Relief

I read a lot of really crappy comic books growing up. I mean really crappy. If it had Betty or Veronica on the cover,…

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