“Amazing.” “Incredible.” “Life-changing.” Those are just some of the ways Alpha graduates have described their experience, and it’s true. I know, because our daughter Robin* attended not once, but twice. Alpha is a workshop for teen writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. For eleven days, they attend interactive sessions… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books on My Spring TBR List. A few of these are new; a few are carryovers from my winter list. Starred titles are also on my Top of the Hoard… Read more »
Looking for fantasy with an Irish flavor for your St. Patrick’s Day reading? Try one of these: Dark Witch (review), Shadow Spell (review), and Blood Magick by Nora Roberts. Magic and romance, time travel and an ancient evil, all set in contemporary Ireland. Hounded (book 1 in the Iron… Read more »
It’s almost time for Bloggiesta! What’s Bloggiesta, you ask? Well, here’s how the organizers describe it: Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon (sometimes over a weekend, sometimes four days and this time one week!) where we as bloggers gather together to help each other work on all sorts of blogging tasks, stuff… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures – I mean books! My Week What a weekend! Friday the 13th, then Pi Day, and today is… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Harper Lee’s Literary Agent Disputes Claims of Elder Abuse. And it seems that the state of Alabama, which launched an investigation, concurs that Lee… Read more »
Much sadness. The BBC reported this morning that Terry Pratchett, beloved author of the Discworld novels, has died. His official Twitter account announced his death with a series of emails: (ETA: The character Death speaks in all caps in the Discworld novels. Also, I am not sure but I suspect… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Books for People Who Love ______. (I chose Fairy Tales.) I tried to put these in order, but I just couldn’t. However, pulling this post together made me realize how many… Read more »
I made my goal! I actually read more than the 15 books enumerated below – those are just the ones whose reviews have posted. So I’m feeling pretty good about this challenge! Also read ( * = review to come) Valiant, by Sarah McGuire * An Uncivilized Yankee, by… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures – I mean books! My Week Happy (or not so happy) Spring Forward Day! I hope you remembered… Read more »
