Bookscape

Farewell, Maurice Sendak

Erin Robbins — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:22:41 +0000

Maurice Sendak, widely recognized as one of the most important children’s literature authors and illustrators of the 20th century, died Tuesday, May 8, at the age of 83. Sendak wrote and/or illustrated more than 100 books during his career, but was best known for Where the Wild Things Are, which received the 1964 Caldecott Medal. [...]

BLUE NIGHTS by Joan Didion

Mary Menke — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:49:47 +0000

I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I only came to Joan Didion’s work in 2005 through The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir about the sudden death of her husband, author John Gregory Dunne. In that book, she also discusses the illness of their daughter, Quintana Roo, who subsequently passed away 20 months after Dunne. [...]

DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth

Shea Fenton — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:06:39 +0000

For those who loved the Hunger Games, here is an overlooked dystopian gem that is not only thrilling but well crafted. Written by Veronica Roth, Divergent develops an awesome setting and meaningful characters. This book was not at all what I predicted! I expected it to center around government control, but it was more about our [...]

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF TIME by Ally Carter

Shea Fenton — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:45:25 +0000

The fifth book in the Gallagher Girl series, Out of Sight, Out of Time raises the stakes even higher than before. Ally Carter captures the changes in the characters as they move into their final year of high school. Spy high school. We’ve seen the characters grow up and move into a dangerous world, with dangerous [...]

GAMES OF TRANSFORMATION by Alice M. Azure

Faye Adams — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:49:18 +0000

From her first poem in Games of Transformation, Alice M. Azure draws the reader into another world, one steeped in history and immersed in shadows of an ancient culture that can only be intuited. She pulls us deep into this lost world and sets us down in the midst of “eight-rowed corn, mica, Ramey pots, [...]