All summer long, I’ve been compiling massive lists of books lists, since everyone and their brother apparently wrote a “summer reading” list. Here, then, are my favorite book lists of the summer. There’s a wide range of books included, from a variety of sources. Happy reading, bookworms! We start with the YALSA (Young Adult Library [...]
Monthly Archives — July 2009
Reading about Reading
Well, not really, but that’s the idea behind the literary concept of meta-fiction. I was recently reorganizing my bookshelves and I found my copy of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. When I first read about the time-jumping hero Billy Pilgrim, I was in college and it was in the context of a discussion about meta-fiction. That [...]
Book News Round-Up
Greetings, bookworms. It’s a short round-up this week and heavy on the Harry Potter news. Apparently, the Vatican and Harry Potter have kissed and made up. While the Catholic Church has been critical of the Harry Potter franchise in the past, it recently give a “thumbs up” to the latest movie. The review praised the [...]
