Lilah ,'Destiny'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
But for the most part format is more telling - board books vs. picture books vs. early/easy readers vs. middle grade (="chapter books") vs young adult (which are chapter books with more sophisticated themes, basically.)
Also, size of font (which corresponds to # of words per page).
Nancy Pearl's summer reading list, via NPR: [link]
love the sound of the first book, a vintage Hollywood mystery with Edith Head (!) as one of the detectives.
I read it - really good
I'm reading it right now!
So among the many things revealed at SDCC today is the fact that ELIZABETH FREAKING WEIN is writing a SW book: [link]
Looks like a comic, or maybe an illustrated book. BUT! Holy cow.
Other writers also writing new SW material: KEN LIU. MIRA GRANT. SALADIN AHMED. DELILAH DAWSON.
I am agog.
Wow!!!
Upside of having generations of kids raised on Star Wars.
Just finished Lisa See's I The Teagirl of Hummingbird Lane.
It is really good.
I saw this and it struck me as something Jilli would enjoy - Strange Practice. What the author calls "sensible monsters."
I just saw that mentioned on Twitter, and it does look good, Todd!
I'm reading this now -- [link] -- and I love it completely. Exactly what's promised -- a historical YA romp through Europe.
Epic and Consuela - thanks for reccing The Thief etc. earlier in the year. I probably would not have started reading the series on my own as I kept getting it confused with The Queen's Poisoner and the descriptions I read were not all that intriguing, but I am so glad I did! What a well and deeply thought out world!
the descriptions I read were not all that intriguing
Same here, if my friend hadn't recced it, I doubt I would have read the first book or pursued the series.
How far in are you? The books just keep getting better!