The Thief (a Newbury Honor book) is the best YA novel I have read all year, closely followed by The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia, all novels by Megan Whalen Turner. The fourth one in the series A Conspiracy of Kings just came out last week…I’m ninth on in the library’s request [...]
Summertime and the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high
Daddy’s rich, and your mamma’s good lookin’
So hush little baby, don’t you cry…
I don’t remember a time when I didn’t know and like this song but it turns out I really never understood it. On a hike in Yellowstone one summer [...]
This is one of Shannon Hale’s two adult novels, both of which are pretty good. (The other one is Austenland.) Interestingly enough, both deal with females fantasizing about their favorite male actor. In this case, the woman (a devout Mormon with four kids) actually meets her favorite actor. The book offers an answer to the [...]
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