I’m about half an hour early in celebrating the release day for this book, but just couldn’t wait for it to be officially June 8th. Why the excitement?For starters, SETH BAUMGARTNER’S LOVE MANIFESTO by Eric Luper is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read — snorting, laugh-out-loud, funny. But what makes it even more [...]
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Books I’ve Loved Lately
I’ve been deep in the depths of revision for the past few weeks — polishing up a picture book and a middle grade mystery. They are both done (*pause for cheering & confetti here*) and on submission now, and I have big plans for a post-revision reading binge. But before I do that, I want [...]
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Get this book for your mom. Or your daughter. Or yourself…
So I think this has to be one of my favorite books ever. Really.Full disclosure – I know Jeannine and heard her read a poem from this book at a writers retreat last summer. It was lovely and poignant, but when she described the book as a collection of poems about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam [...]
Great Books Coming in 2010: HARMONIC FEEDBACK by Tara Kelly
There are so many things I loved about this book that it’s hard to know where to start. The main character, Drea, is a teenager who’s tired of being defined by her acronyms… ADHD and Asperger’s Syndrome. I’ve read a few YA novels with main characters on the autism spectrum, but this is the first [...]
Great Books Coming in 2010: DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS by C.J. Omololu
This YA novel takes place over a mere 24 hours, but what a 24 hours it is. It’s the day when everything changes for Lucy, a girl whose mother is a compulsive hoarder. For years, that fact has shaped her life. She’s worried about the smells of her family’s kitchen following her out of the [...]
Because I loved too many 2009 books to have a Top Ten…
Here is a big, whomping list of 2009 titles that I read and loved. They’re linked to my reviews, author interviews, or IndieBound, and sorted in ways that I hope will help you buy them for holiday gifts. Everyone needs books. Especially these… For your dystopian fiction fan… CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins (but you [...]
Great Books Coming in 2010: WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON
When I attended NCTE last month, I came home with a pile of advance reader copies of 2010 novels. (So many, in fact, that at one point, the bag in which I was carrying them exploded in a rather spectacular fashion, strewing ARCs in about a ten foot radius around the conference center floor, but [...]
BUG BOY by Eric Luper: Not Your Mother’s Historical Fiction
Eric Luper’s historical YA novel BUG BOY comes out on Tuesday, and I can’t resist a little book celebration for one of my critique pals. If you know , then you know he’s one of the nicest, funniest guys you’ll ever meet. If you’ve read his first YA novel, BIG SLICK, you know he can spin a [...]
Winnie’s War by Jenny Moss
Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres, so I celebrate any time a great new historical novel shows up in the world. Tomorrow is cause for celebration indeed because it’s the release day for Winnie’s War (Walker Books for Young Readers) by Jenny Moss. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll tell you that Jenny [...]
HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET
They say that whatever you do on the first day of the New Year tells how you’ll spend your time that year. I’m so hoping this is true for books, too, because the first book I read in 2009 was one of my favorites in a long, long time.I’ll apologize in advance for teasing – [...]
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