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Spell It Out
My 5-year-old daughter has been teaching herself to write. She knows all the sounds of the letters, and some of the two-letter sounds, and she just writes phonetically. It’s pretty great, and I am totally encouraging, even when what she writes bears no resemblance to an English word. But every once in a while she [...]
Amanda Knox
I don’t watch a lot of TV, especially not TV news or TV tabloids, so while I feel confident that I had heard something about Amanda Knox in the past six years, I really only became aware of the ins and outs of her infamous life this year. But when I did become aware, it [...]
Orange is the New Black
You know what would be cool? A time machine. Oh sure, we all want to go back and kill Hitler, but that’s not why I want one. I just want to go back and post reviews of books years before a TV or movie adaptation makes them popular so I can go back to the [...]
Year of the Storm
Extremely sharp-eyed readers of this blog may recognize John Mantooth’s name from his story in Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas’s Haunted Legends, which I reviewed a few years back. Of course, since I didn’t mention Mantooth’s story in the review and since even though I am a huge fan of that collection, I myself didn’t [...]
Evil Eye
By my count, based on her website, Joyce Carol Oates has published 50 novels for adults, 6 Young Adult novels, 12 novellas or novella collections, 8 poetry collections, 36 story collections, 14 works of various types of nonfiction, 9 books of plays, and 3 books for children, for a staggering total of 138 volumes of [...]
Humor
If you want to send me into paroxysms of terror and self-doubt, just send a 13-year-old up to me to ask me for a “funny book.” Part of the reason that this is my least favorite reader’s advisory question is that humor is so personal–how do I know what this stranger in front of me [...]
National Book Awards
Monday was the big day for the National Book Awards in the YA and Children’s worlds, with the announcement of the longlist for the award for Young People’s Literature. But we here at Adult Books 4 Teens had to wait through the week for the other three longlists to be announced: Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction. [...]
The Cuckoo’s Calling
You may have heard that JK Rowling has a new book out this year. Or perhaps, Robert Galbraith has a debut novel out, except that Galbraith is a pseudonym for Rowling. Rowling has explained on her website that she choose to write this new mystery series under a pseudonym because: I was yearning to go [...]
Poetry Roundup
Well, it’s taken me four and a half months, but I’ve finally managed to get together another post on poetry. I’m very excited about all four of the books we have for you today. Mei-mei Berssengbrugge and Gregory Orr are the same age (born 1947) and are both seasoned hands, with many poetry collections and [...]
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