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November 3, 2009
- A question I've been known to ask people who want to write is: What kind of writer do you want to be? A companion question, and one I think equally important is: Why do you write - because you love to write or because you want to be published?It's only natural to want, having written, your words to reach a wider audience. And it would be downright nimrodic, given that I've had several books ...
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November 2, 2009
- KING OF THE SCREWUPS, K.L. Going. From the flap copy:Liam Geller is Mr. Popularity. Everybody loves him. He excels at sports; he knows exactly what clothes to wear; he always ends up with the most beautiful girls in school. But he's got an uncanny ability to screw up in the very ways that tick off his father the most.When his father finally throws him out of the house, his father's brother - ...
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October 27, 2009
- Read "All My Friends Are Writers" on BiblioBuffet and scroll down for chance to win first four books in The Sisters 8 series: here.How about you? Are all your friends writers?Be well. Don't forget to write.
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October 26, 2009
- THE FAMILY MAN, Elinor Lipman. The flap copy:A hysterical phone call from his ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend Henry Archer’s well-ordered life. They bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old-fashioned man, gay, successful, lonely. Thalia is now twenty-nine, an actress-hopeful, ...
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October 20, 2009
- There's not a whole lot Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley and I have in common. There's that prize, for one thing. She's extraordinarily tall, I'm extraordinarily short. Even our names are of wildly different lengths - I've got her whole 10-digit name beat with my hyphenated last name alone.But there are at least two things we do have in common. 1) I remember reading once ...
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October 19, 2009
- LOVE IS THE HIGHER LAW, David Levithan. This quietly powerful YA novel, beginning with the events of 9/11 and focusing on the year after, takes its title from a line in the U2 song "One." The idea of "One" is symbolic here in terms of people coming together. Claire, Peter and Jasper, all New York teens, are barely acquaintances when the story opens, and they couldn't be more ...
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October 13, 2009
- BiblioBuffet has posted Part VII in my seven-part series, The Seven Stages of My Reading Life So Far. This entry is called Editor and if you scroll down to the bottom you'll see a place to enter a contest for a copy of my next YA novel, CRAZY BEAUTIFUL. The contest runs thru Friday.How about you? Got any memories to share from your reading life?Be well. Don't forget to write.
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October 12, 2009
- No, "Help Me Out Here" is not the title of some book you haven't heard of. It's a genuine plea. In the past week I've read five novels and not a single one of them is worthy of being "Book of the Week" here. So that's why I need your help. Has my radar for picking books that will turn off to be good ones gone on the fritz??? Pleasepleaseplease help me, tell me:WHAT BOOK HAVE ...
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October 7, 2009
- Can a book save your life? Oh, probably, if we're including nonfiction books like, say, first-aid guides. But I'm talking about novels, specifically. (I would have titled this post "A Novel Can Save Your Life" but it isn't quite so catchy, I don't think.) So, now that we got that cleared up, can a novel save your life? At least one woman I met would say yes.For the better part of 11 ...
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October 6, 2009
- What is Teen Read Week (TRW)?Teen Read Week is an initiative launched by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) in 1998 to encourage and celebrate reading in teens. This year TRW will be celebrated from Oct 18-24 with the theme being Read For The Fun Of It. Thousands of libraries, classrooms and bookstores will participate.Many teens are already in love with reading, but it's ...
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October 5, 2009
- NOTHING LIKE YOU, Lauren Strasnick. From the back cover:When Holly loses her virginity to Paul, a guy she barely knows, she assumes their encounter is a one-night stand. After all, Paul is too popular to even be speaking to Holly...and he happens to have a long-term girlfriend, Saskia. But ever since Holly's mom died six months ago, Holly has been numb to the world, and she's getting desperate to ...
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September 29, 2009
- BiblioBuffet has posted Part VI in my seven-part series, The Seven Stages of My Reading Life So Far. This entry is called Writer and if you scroll down to the bottom you'll see a place to enter a contest for a copy of my next YA novel, CRAZY BEAUTIFUL. The contest runs thru Friday.How about you? Got any memories to share from your reading life?Be well. Don't forget to write.
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September 28, 2009
- LAND OF THE LIVING, Nicci French. Imagine you find yourself in a dank, dark place, trussed up. Imagine you have no memory of events leading to your current condition but that you gradually come to realize - over days of being underfed, underwatered, forced to use a bucket as a toilet, most of the time with a hood over your head - you're being held captive by a madman. Imagine realizing that ...
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September 22, 2009
- This week the LitChat topic on Twitter has been creative battlegrounds. What is meant by that, I learned after asking, is all those things that get in the way of putting word on the page. Being the contrarian that I am, I said that I see no creative battlegrounds for me, only creative opportunites. So of course someone replied, "Lucky you."I am lucky, lucky in so many ways, not least of ...
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September 21, 2009
- THE HATE LIST, Jennifer Brown. An excellent YA novel about a teen who survives a school shooting in which her boyfriend was the shooter, selecting his targets based on a list the two had compiled together of hated people. I thought it might be exploitative but it's not at all and now I'm thinking of doing an essay on such books. How about you? Read anything terrific lately?Be well. Don't forget ...
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