by Site Owner | Nov 27, 2011 | Writers on Writing
If I’m So Damned Smart, Then Why Am I Broke? By Joe Schwartz I sometimes feel sorry for the likes of Stephenie Myers and J.K. Rowling. After the smash success of what are basically their first novels, where do they have to go from here? Even if their next book...
by Site Owner | Nov 22, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
by Lindsay Lee Johnson Clarion Books, $16.99, 32 pages Minnesotan author Lindsay Lee Johnson ,Soul Moon Soup and Hurricane Henrietta, and Belgian illustrator Carll Cneut City Lullaby, Antonio on the Other Side of the World, Getting Smaller come together to paint a...
by Site Owner | Nov 22, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Classics
by Margaret Sharp New York Review Children’s Books, $14.95, 152 pages The Rescuers, originally published in 1959 is an adventure story, about mice of the Prisoner’s Aid Society (Miss. Bianca, Nils, and Bernard) who go off on a dangerous mission to rescue a young...
by Site Owner | Nov 22, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
by Sarah Winman Bloomsbury Press, $25.00, 304 pages Sometimes a pretty bauble holds little but air. When God Was A Rabbit looks at the life of Elly in two parts: when she is a girl and then when she is a woman. We follow her from Essex to Cornwall to New York as she...
by Site Owner | Nov 22, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Comics & Graphic Novels
by Craig Thompson Pantheon, $35.00, 672 pages Comparing religions is always fun. Habibi is a mix between love story and allegory. A slave girl adopts a boy in order to save his life. She eventually escapes, taking him with her into the desert where she begins telling...
