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A Corner of White
A Corner of White (Book 1 of The Colors of Madeleine), Jaclyn Moriarty Scholastic, April 2013 Reviewed from ARC and final ebook This is a doozy of a book. Clair talked about the difficulties summing up a complex book like The Raven Boys, but that would be a breeze compared to this one. It’s crowded [...]
It’s Pyrite Time!
Here at Someday, we have a mission. It’s pretty simple: emulate the RealCommittee process as much as possible. A large part of what we do is discuss books at a level we believe is similar to that of the RealCommittee — thoughtfully, seriously, with an insane attention to detail. But the RealCommittee also nominates and [...]
Midwinterblood
Midwinterblood, Marcus Sedgwick Roaring Brook Press, February 2013 Reviewed from final copy Let me start with a provocative question: Can a book be so literary that it fails at being a book? Midwinterblood is full of the sorts of things I’ve hardly thought about since my days as an English major: tropes, motifs, archetypes, foreshadowing, [...]
Best of…
We’re at the time of year when every day seems to bring us a new list — the past 24 hours alone saw Horn Book’s Fanfare, NPR’s (new! fun!) Book Concierge, and the Morris Award shortlist. And while I’m not a data junkie, I like lists. I like cross-referencing, comparing, seeing how the end-of-year lists [...]
Mortal Fire: Bright but Lacking Heat?
Mortal Fire, Elizabeth Knox Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, June 2013 Reviewed from final copy I love this book so very very much. I put it on our initial long list based on one read, and I knew there were some flaws in the pacing, but there was so much good — the world, the [...]
Boxers & Saints — Or, What Defines “Book” Anyway?
I had hoped to post this before the NBA was announced, but fate (and also one very lively 6-year-old) intervened, and then intervened some more. Regardless, here’s a verbatim transcript of my thinking when I finished Boxers & Saints: Wow. Also, hmmm. I read the two volumes back to back in the intended order, and [...]
The Kingdom of Little Wounds
The Kingdom of Little Wounds, Susann Cokal Candlewick Press, October 2013 Reviewed from ARC I wanted to like this. I mean, it’s huge, it’s about my favorite general period in history, it uses a fairy tale motif throughout, it’s got a stunning package, and people whose opinions I respect say this is an it book [...]
September Girls
September Girls, Bennett Madison HarperTeen, May 2013 Reviewed from final copy and e-book I’ve got a short shortlist. September Girls is on it. Where to start? Much was made just after publication about the sexism of September Girls (do you need links? I found no professional reviews taking this side of the discussion, so I’d [...]
Soliciting Contenders
Readers, we need you! We’re working our way down the long list, and we’ve got a few roundups of some other books that we think are in the top, say, hundred books of the year but don’t quite have that thing that wins the gold. But we know there are gems we’ve missed or dismissed, [...]
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