One day. 24 hours. Cheerleaders. Mini challenges. Prizes. Snacks. Readers around the world. And — of course — books! What is this glorious event of which I speak? Why, it’s Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-Thon! Twice a year, readers and bloggers around the world settle down for 24 hours of reading. Bloggers post about their reading, cheerleaders …
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Thoughts on “When You Reach Me” by Rebecca Stead
When Rebecca Stead’s middle grade novel When You Reach Me won the Newbery earlier this year, I meant to read it right away. Now, nine months later, I finally got to it. I devoured it in a single day. Miranda is a pretty typical 12-year-old. She adores Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. She lives …
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Thoughts on “Rose in a Storm” by Jon Katz
Rose in a Storm, which goes on sale today, is Jon Katz’s first novel in 10 years. It’s also the first book of his I’ve read. I received an advance copy through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program and was looking forward to giving Katz’s books a shot, as I’ve heard very positive comments in the past. …
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The Rights of the Reader
At the last minute, I added Daniel Pennac’s The Rights of the Reader to my Banned Books Week reading. I blame it for derailing my plans to read all three previously selected books in one week (I have about 30 pages of The Catcher in the Rye left to go), but Pennac’s book has been …
Sunday Salon: Celebrating One Year
Today my husband and I are celebrating our one-year anniversary. To kick off our anniversary weekend, yesterday morning we went to our first library sale in our new city. At $2 a bag, how could we resist? Between the two of us we ended up stuffing 17 books (mostly hardcovers) into an undersized brown paper …