I like it when it rains on a weekend that I don’t have any outside plans. This weekend, I curled up in my comfy chair and read Blackbriar. (Originally I opened up my blinds, too, so that I could see the rain, but there was THE HUGEST BUG EVER on the outside of my window, seriously, it was as big as a grown hummingbird, and it wouldn’t go away when I rapped on the window, so I closed the blinds again and just enjoyed the sounds of the rain.) Ella was right. It is indeed extremely Gothic. Fifteen-year-old Danny and…
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I got books in the post from the fantastic Ella at Box of Books! Not only was this a lovely surprise, but it was all wrapped up in thick brown paper. I defy you to find a nicer packaging for books than thick brown paper. And what wonderful books to get in the mail! Changing Planes, a collection of stories by Ursula LeGuin in which a central character called Sita is able to go to different worlds. Gorgeous cover, and the illustrations in the book are wonderful – I’m looking forward to this! A book by William Sleator called Blackbriar…
8 CommentsI was just saying the other day that I never find good graphic novels to read by myself. So today I was at the library and I decided I was damn well going to learn how to be independent and find a good graphic novel all on my own. Yeah, and review it here, so other people would know about it too. Mother Come Home is a graphic novel about a seven-year-old boy called Thomas Tennant who loses his mother, and how he and his father deal (or don’t deal) with the loss. I said in my review of The…
3 CommentsA slim friendly book about elements that make children’s books appealing to kids. I read about it on Nymeth’s blog, and I of course had to go get it from the library straight away. I like reading books about books. Jerry Griswold mentions a number of things in books that appeal to little children – snugness (yessss!), scariness, smallness, lightness, and aliveness. I don’t think this is a comprehensive list, but I liked what he said about these five things. Especially the snug section – I loved reading about people who had found their own little places to go. There…
2 CommentsThis was a gift that I bought for someone’s birthday, and I read it before I gave it to my friend. I’m sorry! In my defense, I read it incredibly carefully. I mean just incredibly carefully, you have no idea, I practically had to poke my nose inside the book, because I was opening the covers only the littlest possible bit. Whatever, there is no excuse for me. This is fine when I do it with my friend tim, or my Indie Sister, or even my mother, because I know they are all doing the same thing with (at least…
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