Notes on Books & Life
I’ll be spending this week talking about the books I read during last Saturday’s Readathon. I’ll be going in order from least favorite to most. Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko is the sequel to Al Capone Does My Shirts, which received a Newbery Honor award. Set on Alcatraz during the Great Depression, …
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I’ll be spending this week talking about the books I read during last Saturday’s Readathon. I’ll be going in order from least favorite to most. Before I started reading it, the only thing I knew about The Reader by Bernhard Schlink was that it was made into a movie starring Kate Winslet. I picked up …
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I’ll be spending this week talking about the books I read during last Saturday’s Readathon. I’ll be going in order from least favorite to most. The last book I read during the October 2010 Readathon was A Most Improper Magick by Stephanie Burgis. Because I read in the wee hours of the morning, it had …
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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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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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