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Category: Books
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Tsundoku Tsunami
Later today – maybe tomorrow – I will be dealing with my tsundoku. It’s a Japanese word for the pile of unread books we all have. We all do, right? It’s not just me? We’re revamping the house this week. It’s needed doing for a while, but you know how it is. You move in,…
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Eat This While You Read That: Mark Wandrey
You know, usually with an ETWYRT meal it’s fun. I enjoy the process of cooking, and photographing. Preparing, staging, and shooting Mark’s meal made me giggle like a madwoman, much to the amusement of the First Reader, although once he realized what Mark had given me, and what I planned to do, he was making…
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Eat This While You Read That: Jim Baen
Writing this post made me reflect on missed opportunities. I never got to meet Jim Baen in person. I would have liked to, and to take him pecan sandies, which I knew were his favorites. Sadly, I couldn’t travel, and then, he was gone. But he’ll never be forgotten and I wanted to pay…
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Kids and Books and Scary Stuff
I’m waiting on the coffee, which is still making cheerful gurgling noises (I really need to run vinegar through the pot and clean out some of the build-up, but probably not today). I’m pondering the ineffable effs of the Universe, like ‘why Monday’ and ‘why so early’ but also ‘why have I got so many…
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Eat This While You Read That: Chris Smith
Chris Smith has a sick, evil, twisted sense of humor. I do like that in a person. Really! But he made me laugh out loud when he suggested the dish for this, and I’m sure that was his intention all along. Oh, and because it’s delicious. But mostly, I’m sure it was the punniness of…
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Rescuing the Hero
I made a rash comment a while back, and a combination of ‘brainnnzzz’ due to traveling and my usual tendency to write in mental shorthand (which drives my editors crazy too) meant that my thoughts came out garbled. So I decided I’d better unpack what I meant and make it clearer. Hopefully clear enough to…
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Review: Tom
Continuing with my impromptu Young Adults reading week, I offer you Tom, by Dave Freer. While not sold exclusively as young adult, and certainly eminently readable by all ages, Tom is going to be appealing to teen boys (and girls who don’t want a romance as the central plot all the time). I’ve been a…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Stick-in-the-Mud
written by Sanford Begley I’m a Stick-in-the-mud. I have to admit it, because it is true. I don’t usually think of myself as one. Not that I think I’m with it or anything, just that none of us like to think we can’t keep up with the times. Some days you get it rubbed in…
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Eat This While You Read That: Cal Primer
Most of the time when I contact an author, it’s about 4-6 weeks before their dish appears here. I try not to rush, I know what it’s like between writing and life and everything. I’d pinged Cal a while back, asking if she’d like to take part, and she was interested… and then I turned…
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Boys Read Too! The Step-Up List
I’ve been working on lists of books for teen boys, but there are also books that were recommended that are suitable for younger readers, teens, and as a commenter yesterday pointed out; excellent books are readable at any age (Thanks, Joanne!). So this is the list of books that form a bridge from the middle…
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Boys Read Too! The Classics List
The first part of the list is here: The Modern List As I alluded to yesterday, classic books can be harder for the modern youth to approach. Oh, not all of us. I was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs at the tender age of ten, when the librarian let me into the storeroom where a long…
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Boys Read, Too! The Modern List
I started this yesterday, with my musings on the offerings of traditional publishing for teen boys. Middle grade readers (intended for roughly second through sixth grade children) have plenty of titles meant for boys to enjoy – not always starring a boy, but the sort of action and adventure tales that will attract them and…