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Monthly Archives — September 2010

Book News, Sept. 25th

And the Book News is back. I’m sure you’re all glad inside. I hope you enjoyed my Book Blogger Appreciation posts as well as the reviews I published this week. Now that all the craziness is (mostly) over and my books are finally unpacked, I can get back to the fun stuff. The Hunger Games [...]

Speak Loudly

There are a lot of things in this world I just don’t understand: complex math, Republicans, reality television (particularly those shows of the MTV / VH1 variety), clowns – you get the idea. But more than anything, I really just don’t understand banning books. I don’t understand people who go on crusades to prevent others [...]

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

Ah, beauty. A tricky thing. It might land you in a castle as a beast’s prisoner or maybe it might start a war between countries, with one face launching a thousand ships. We all want to be considered beautiful, but just want makes someone beautiful is difficult to define. Is it everyone looking the same [...]