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More Morris, or Rachel Hartman on Charm & Strange
A few days ago on Twitter, Rachel Hartman (yes, you know, that Rachel Hartman, who brought us last year’s best debut — and one of last year’s best books, period), Seraphina, asked if we were doing a Morris shortlist roundup this year. The answer, sadly, was not really, because our Morris readership hasn’t been thorough [...]
Voting Time
Well, it’s time to vote for the Pyrite! So enter your votes — weighted, 1, 2, and 3 — below and have your say. Voting will be open until 1/22, with any runoff and honor book votes on 1/23, and then we’ll post the results on the eve of Midwinter, just in time to be [...]
Roundup: All the Books
Okay, not all the books, but three books for the price of one post: The Golden Day, Winger, and The Midnight Dress. (It was going to be four books, because I stayed up way too late reading More Than This the other night, but I think I need to sit on that for another day [...]
Pyrite Thoughts…
The clock is winding down and the YMAs are coming! And in the two weeks since we posted the Pyrite nominations, we’ve covered even more books. I’m thinking it might be time to start lining them up against each other, in preparation for a vote that will open at the end of the week. So [...]
Death and Love: Sorrow’s Knot & The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Today, I’m talking about two books that are in my personal top 10 of the year. And both revolve around death and love, two primal, powerful pieces of life. And they’re both fantastic. Other than that, they’re really different, and I suspect neither of them has much chance at a Printz nod, which is sort [...]
The Summer Prince, a Printz Indeed (says I)
The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson Arthur A. Levine (Scholastic), March 2013 Reviewed from ARC and finished ebook I’ve already gone on record saying that this is my personal frontrunner this year. It’s the book, above all other books, that worked for me as a reader and that I can support as a critic. If [...]
Pyrite Results
Happy New Year! Let’s kick off 2014 right, with the Pyrite nomination results. There weren’t too many surprises, but here’s the breakdown: Leading the pack with three people listing it is my own personal frontrunner and favorite, Alaya Dawn Johnson’s sublime The Summer Prince. Then we had a whole cluster of titles with two votes [...]
Message or Masterpiece (Or, Does the Problem Novel Still Exist?)
Today we’re running a roundup of books that we think are worth discussing because they are in the top, say, 100 of the year. But they aren’t quite there, and we don’t think they’ll go the distance. And to make the post about more than just a series of short reviews, we’ve limited today’s roundup [...]
Maggot Moon, a Literary David
Guest post by Barbara Moon! Gardner’s slim volume consisting of a scant 279 pages seems like an odd choice for a Printz discussion, especially when compared to some of the more weighty tomes under consideration for the award. How does this strange little volume measure up? Well, here’s what worked for me.
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