Your opinion matters to me, great internet hordes. So please help me come to an agonizing decision over eReaders. I really want to buy one sometime around my birthday (Christmastime) when I believe the price wars will drop one or all popular models to a very nice gifting price.
FIRST OF ALL, I address the [...]
After years of being told by my geek idol, Stephen Fry, that I should get off my duff and read some Evelyn Waugh, I finally did.
I was dreading it; I know not why. Wait, yes I do: because I’m lazy and I thought this infamous twentieth century satirist would require me to use my [...]
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary
OK so here’s the deal. I never had to read Harper Lee’s American classic To Kill a Mockingbird in school. So I didn’t.
Them’s just the breaks, guys. I didn’t read a lot of books that most kids had to in school because I was part of a super-secret quasi-European [...]
Once in a blue moon, I will chat about a book I’m working on at HarperCollins. I’ll be sure to be transparent about that when it happens, so here you go: Wings is a HarperTeen book, and I work for HarperTeen, and when I was brought on I was giving a gigantic stack of shiny [...]
Recently I read volumes 1-7 of the graphic novel, The Runaways. My roommate had recommended it to me as something that might appeal to my background as a huge comic book nerd.
Before I start talking about The Runaways, a quick word on criticism:
Thinking about criticism inevitably reminds me of my first and only college [...]
I–I swear, this has never happened with any of the other books I’ve been with. I’m not the kind of gal that does stuff like this! But I guess there’s a first time for everything.
Yiddish Policeman’s Union, I got to quit you.
It’s not your fault. I loved Kavalier and Clay. I was so [...]
I finished reading Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides. I had read his Virgin Suicides back in college, but I didn’t remember much of that book. So I went into Middlesex as a kind of blank slate.
One sentence summary: Cal, who is affected by a rare form of hermaphrodism, tells the epic story of his Greek [...]
I thought now would be a good time to change this blog from something that was mostly all about me into something that was mostly all about something else. (And trust me, having something be mostly about me is pretty terrible; I’m shocked you stood for it for so long. To be honest, I’m rather [...]
I finally hooked up my GoodReads account to Facebook.
It’s working out pretty well! I was a little frustrated for years and years because there doesn’t yet seem to be a clear “winner” in the Social Network for Books title. GoodReads, LibraryThing, BookCrossing, there’s just so many. I went with GoodReads because (as with most [...]
Heroes are great and all, but give me a villain any day of the week.
Think about it: who would you rather hang with, Superman or Lex Luthor? Lex probably has 700 satellite channels and every sports car ever made. What’s Superman got? An inferiority complex wrapped up with some cosmic-sized daddy issues? No thank you. [...]
