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Peace by Richard Bausch
The news that Richard Bausch has been award a Dayton Literary Peace Prize for his novel Peace, made me dig through the archives for the blurb I wrote for it last year. Peace is the intense story of the...
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Salt: Just Two Books
When I joined Twitter over a year ago, one of the first things I learned about was Salt Publishing‘s Just One Book campaign. Evidently Salt, like many small publishers, was in trouble, and this was...
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A Great Historical Novel for Middle Grade Readers
Review: Countdown by Deborah Wiles Franny Chapman is eleven and her world is falling apart. The world is transfixed by the Cuban Missile Crisis. They have nuclear attack drills at school, her Uncle is...
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Martin Millar’s Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation
Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation was Martin Millar’s first published novel. In the US, it appears that we are getting Millar’s books in something like a reverse order, starting with the brilliant The...
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Two Awesome Books for Middle Grade Readers
My kids have entered that nebulous no-mans-zone known as the middle grade (or tween) years: too old for simple chapter books (like The Magic Tree House series, for example), but too young to demolish...
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Bookish Traditions: Fall/Halloween Books
We just changed the display on our seasons table and put the Halloween decorations up. The table currently combines the signs of harvest and the turning leaves (cornucopia, gourds, Indian corn,...
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Review: Jude: Level 1
Once upon a time I was on a long plane flight and an “Irish” film came on. OK, it was more Oirish than Irish: The Matchmaker, a fish out of water story wherein an uptight American (Janeane Garofalo)...
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Review: Bigger than a Bread Box
Laurel Snyder’s new novel for middle-grade readers, Bigger than A Bread Box, is much more of a complex read than I usually find in this category (but that just means I don’t read enough MG anymore)....
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Book Review: Faery Tale by Signe Pike
Broadly speaking, there are two camps into which depictions of fairies can be divided: the cute and the capricious. Hollywood has done the first to death; after all, fluff and feathers seems to be...
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Review: Notes from a Coma
Notes from a Coma by Mike McCormack (US cover: Soho Press, 2013) Notes from a Coma by Mike McCormack is a fantastic and unusual novel that strives to break many of the ‘rules’ of novel writing and gets...
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