This was a post I intended to publish over a year ago. Now in paperback, I'm finally going to post my review of Ron Rash's Serena.Hardcover: 9780061470851, HarperCollins, $24.95Paperback: 9780061470844, HarperCollins, $14.99Serena blew my mind a bit. You wouldn't think upon first picking up a book about a timber empire in North Carolina during the … Continue reading Book Review: Serena by Ron Rash
Month: April 2010
David Foster Wallace Vocabulary
Thanks to @kentmeusemarian for today's post! (Follow me on Twitter: @rebf)David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, whose most famous work, Infinite Jest, was included in Time magazine's All-Time 100 Greatest Novels list.Hardcover: 9780316920049, Little, Brown & Co., $35Paperback: 9780316066525, Little, Brown & Co., $17.99In his work, he had much … Continue reading David Foster Wallace Vocabulary
Book Blogger Hop!
Thank you to Presenting Lenore for turning me on to a phenomenon known as the Book Blogger Hop!Through Presenting Lenore, I discovered Crazy-for-Books, who hosts this weekly event. Click on this link to sign up for this week's Book Blogger Hop.What IS a BBH, you ask? Pretty much what it sounds like. If you have … Continue reading Book Blogger Hop!
Pioneer Valley Children’s Book Exhibit
For those folks living in, around, near, or feel like traveling to the Pioneer Valley in Western Mass (an area consisting of towns such as Amherst, Northampton, & South Hadley), a traveling area picturebook exhibit is making its final stop.The Making of a Picture Book: The Marriage of Text and Art is an exhibit curated … Continue reading Pioneer Valley Children’s Book Exhibit
Alice on the iPad
I admit I'm completely, 100% fascinated by this video. What I can't decide is whether I've just watched my future as a children's picture book author go up in smoke, or if I just need to learn to adapt to the changing times. Obviously I'm not a Luddite, but still, it's a little disconcerting to … Continue reading Alice on the iPad
Summer 2010 Picturebook Highlights – Candlewick
Presenting #8 in the Summer 2010 Picturebook Highlights series: Candlewick Press! Practically in the back yard (okay, it's an hour and a half away in Boston), this press is the home of Kate DiCamillo, Judy Moody, and Emily Windsnap. Here are some of my favorite picturebooks for the summer season. I already mentioned Cloud Tea … Continue reading Summer 2010 Picturebook Highlights – Candlewick
National Poetry Month: Mary Oliver
The Summer Day by Mary Oliver Who made the world?Who made the swan, and the black bear?Who made the grasshopper?This grasshopper, I mean--the one who has flung herself out of the grass,the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down,who is gazing around … Continue reading National Poetry Month: Mary Oliver
National Poetry Month: Galway Kinnell
In honor of my co-worker, Nieves, who loves turkeys:Turkeysby Galway KinnellSometimes we saw shadows of gods in the trees; silenced, we went on.Sometimes the dog would bound offover the snow, into the forest.Sometimes a tree had twenty or more black turkeys in it, each seeming the size of a small black bear.We remember them for … Continue reading National Poetry Month: Galway Kinnell
Scrabble Sacrilege
Some disturbing news concerning the game Scrabble was released today. Matel, the toy company who holds rights to Scrabble in the UK, has announced that they will be releasing a new form of the game in which proper nouns will count for points (there has been no news as to whether Hasbro, the toy company … Continue reading Scrabble Sacrilege
National Poetry Month: Sherman Alexie
Congratulations to Sherman Alexie for winning the 2010 Pen/Faulkner Fiction prize for his latest book War Dances (9780802119193, $23, Grove Press) (out in paperback in August). Always multi-faceted and multi-talented, Alexie's latest book brings his penchant for unique book design and content, began in his National Book Award-winning YA novel The Absolutely True Diary of … Continue reading National Poetry Month: Sherman Alexie
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