Literature Blog

Catcher in the Rye Read-a-long

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:02:35 +0000

Submitted by Book Nut Here’s your chance to leave a link to your review/thoughts, start spoiler discussions (if you haven’t read the book, you may not want to read the comments), rant or rave about the book, and bascially say whatever you’d like (about the book, please). Thanks for reading along! Visit 1800blogger to see all of our [...]

Lady Macbeth’s Daughter

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:26:52 +0000

Submitted by Book Nut by Lisa Klein ages: 12+ First sentence: “The nameless baby lay on the cold ground, wrapped in a woolen cloth.” Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! Review copy sent to me by the publisher. The one thought that kept running through my mind while reading this was: Lisa Klein is to Shakespeare as Marion Zimmer [...]

Peace, Locomotion

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:27:10 +0000

Submitted by Book Nut by Jacqueline Woodson ages: 9+ First sentence: “Dear Lili, As you know, in a few days I’m going to be twelve.” Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! Review copy sent to me by the publisher for the Cybils. This book was about second chances for me. I read one Jacqueline Woodson book a long time [...]

Library Loot 2010-08

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:28:16 +0000

Submitted by Book Nut Survived Hubby being gone, though I didn’t read much. I did enjoy the Vicar of Dibley, though. Funny stuff, and Richard Armitage really is nice to look at. I missed story time this week because I had a preschool parent-teacher conference for K. I’d say it was a waste of my [...]

Going Bovine

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:29:16 +0000

Submitted by Book Nut by Libba Bray ages: 15+ First sentence: “The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World.” Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! I think this is one of those books that if you don’t read it at exactly the right time — whenever that is for [...]

Sunday Salon: Fanfiction

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:04:06 +0000

Submitted by Book Nut This will have to be a quickie… I’ve been meaning to get to the computer to write a bookish musing post, but the laptop’s down again (we just — finally — caved and bought a new one), and M’s been hogging the desktop, whenever she can, for the last week. Doing what, you [...]

Friday Blabber

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:10:12 +0000

Submitted by BOOKS ON THE BRAIN Hello out there.. I felt like doing a Sunday Salon style post, but since it’s only Friday I’ll have to call it something else. Friday F F F F.. ok, no “F” word is leaping out at me.. we’ll just call it Friday Blabber. Life has been so crazy around here. [...]

Book-to-Movie Friday: The Lightning Thief

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:05:05 +0000

Submitted by Book Nut So, I took M and C to see Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief this past Monday. We had a grand time. I went in excited, yet apprehensive: Chris Columbus pretty much hacked the first two Harry Potter books to death and I really wanted the Percy Jackson movie to hold together [...]

Book Review: New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:13:45 +0000

Submitted by The Thin Red Line The best fiction, I have long believed, educates as much as it entertains; it is sometimes possible to learn much more social history from a good novel as from a good text book. In its scope and breadth, Edward Rutherfurd’s New York: The Novel can rightfully be compared to the [...]

The Lost Conspiracy

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:05:59 +0000

Submitted by Book Nut by Frances Hardinge ages: 11+ First sentence: “It was a burnished, cloudless day with a tug-of-war wind, a fine day for flying.” Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! This book is much like that proverbial boulder: it takes a while to get going, but once it gets started, it rolls down the hill until [...]

Library Loot 2010-07

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:06:56 +0000

Submitted by Book Nut Not too many books this week for a couple of reasons. 1) Hubby’s out of town, and I generally spend my nights catching up on bad romantic comedies that he won’t sit through, which means less time for reading. (Though I have The Vicar of Dibley: A Wholly Happy Ending coming from [...]

Saved by the Music

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:07:59 +0000

Submitted by Book Nut by Selene Castrovilla ages: 14+ First sentence: “The taxi’s spinning wheels spit pebbles and dirt as it left me behind at the marina’s gate.” Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! Review copy sent to me by a publicist. The question is not what is in this book, but what isn’t. We start with Parental Abandonment: 15-year-old [...]

Review and Giveaway: American Rust by Philipp Meyer

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:11:51 +0000

Submitted by BOOKS ON THE BRAIN American Rust by Philipp Meyer is a contemporary fiction novel set in a dying Pennsylvania steel town, where the largest employer has shut down years before, where few opportunities exist for the town’s youth or the adults who’ve spent their lives slaving away in the steel mills. Isaac English is a [...]

The Catcher in the Rye

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:08:54 +0000

Submitted by Book Nut by J. D. Salinger ages: 16+ First sentence: “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind [...]

Charles and Emma

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:13:21 +0000

Submitted by Book Nut The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heligman ages: 12+ First sentence: “In the summer of 1838, in his rented rooms on Great Marlborough Street, London, Charles Darwin drew a line down the middle of a piece of scrap paper.” Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! I’ve read a couple of books on Darwin and [...]