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April 4, 2022

Cybils YASF Finalist Review: The Mirror Season

This was the first of McLemore’s books I’ve read, and it ended up at the top of my personal ranking of finalists. It’s got…

May 25, 2021

From Wonderland to…Liminus

I’d been meaning to read D: A Tale of Two Worlds by Michel Faber since hearing about it on NPR (interview with the author…

December 21, 2017

Thursday Review: THE BOOK OF DUST by Philip Pullman

Synopsis: This was one of my “waiting on” titles of 2017—the His Dark Materials trilogy is one of my favorites (and one I wish…

September 29, 2017

Turning Pages Reads: UNUSUAL CHICKENS FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL POULTRY FARMER by KELLY JONES

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! When I was a kid, we had ducks. We had dogs. We had pigeons. We had chickens….

May 15, 2017

Monday Review: STRANGE THE DREAMER by Laini Taylor

I LOVE this cover. It’s gorgeous. Synopsis: Lazlo Strange is a librarian, a former monk, and an orphan—his last name, “Strange,” is simply the…

February 20, 2017

Cybils Review: LOWRIDERS TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

Synopsis: Time to start posting reviews of the Cybils graphic novel finalists, now that my Round 2 silence is broken–and why not start with…

November 4, 2016

Cybils Speculative Reader: REBEL OF THE SANDS by ALWYN HAMILTON

Welcome to the 2016 Cybils Speculative Reader! As a first run reader for the Cybils, I’ll be briefly introducing you to the books on…

August 20, 2016

Turning Pages Reads: LABYRINTH LOST by ZORAIDA CORDOVA

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! Last November, I went to the grocery store and saw a display of Día de los Muertos…

August 18, 2016

Reading In Tandem: THE SEVENTH WISH, by KATE MESSNER

This has been the summer of the monkeybrain – too much going on, too much we wanted to do and we’re not going to…

August 2, 2016

Surveying Stories: Unpacking “Unlikeable” in Lindsay Ribar’s ROCKS FALL, EVERYONE DIES

Remember the whole discussion about “likeable” characters? As I recall, it sprang from a PW author interview on the unlikable female character in a…

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