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Category Archives: YA Lit
#WitchWeek2020 Day 5: Gothic fantasy, with puppets
Puppet shows! Fun times for all, right? Not in this chilling Newbery Honor book. In 2007, Laura Amy Schlitz had won the Newbery Award for Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village. This 2012 gothic fantasy by the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Fantasy, Gothic, Historical fiction, Mystery, Witch Week, YA Lit
Tagged Laura Amy Schlitz, M R James
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Flotsam and Jetsam
4 books reviewed here, and from them you’ll get a sense of my odd taste in reading these days. No particular reason for it — each one spurred by happenstance, satisfying a yen, or whatever. Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees (1926, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Am reading, Fantasy, Mystery, YA Lit
Tagged Elizabeth Alcevedo, Hope Mirrlees, Neil Gaiman, Rumer Goden
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WITCH WEEK DAY ONE: Ten Kick-Ass Heroines
We’re excited to have this guest post from Marlyn Beebe, a west-coast (USA) librarian with Canadian roots. We thought a librarian would know of some fantasy books that would be new to us, and she did. With her permission, we’ve … Continue reading
Bad Girls
E. Lockhart: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2008), We Were Liars (2014), Genuine Fraud (2017) When Jane Austen created Emma Woodhouse, she noted that here was a character “whom no one but myself will much like”. Austen must have enjoyed making … Continue reading
The universe sends me a message
And I try not to ignore it. This was yesterday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. Beautiful, yes. Historically fascinating, indeed. Appealing, without a doubt. And meaningful to me because this object makes an appearance in my current work-in-progress, on which … Continue reading
Posted in Am writing, Fantasy, Kenning Stars, YA Lit
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Welcome the story-tellers
A new year, a new chance to tell you about books you might love. Today, a set of three books that weave folktales and myths into the journeys of three children and their fellow travelers. Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets … Continue reading
Winning isn’t everything
Here I am again, the good side of NaNoWriMo’s finish line. I’m far from the first to cross it, and in just 2 more days, a few hundred thousand other writers across the globe will have joined us. It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Am writing, Fantasy, Kenning Magic, NaNoWriMo, YA Lit
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Quicksand in the “muddy middle”
A brief check-in: I’m a bit over 13K words short of my 50K goal, and have only 7 days left! And just when I needed them most, Grant Faulkner’s comforting words came via NaNoWriMo’s Pep Talk series: View the blank … Continue reading
Posted in Am writing, Fantasy, Kenning Magic, NaNoWriMo, YA Lit
Tagged Grant Faulkner
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I step, once again, into madness
I hope my readers don’t mind a bit of hyperbole, which is what the title of this post is. I do, however, feel a bit insane to take on NaNoWriMo again, like an addiction I can’t shake. Yet it’s an … Continue reading
Posted in Am writing, Fantasy, NaNoWriMo, YA Lit
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Schools are still the same
Hundred Percent, Karen Romano Young (2016) Authors have gotten a lot of mileage out of the terrible years of schooling that kids must endure before adulthood swamps them with real life. Karen Roman Young adds to the stack with this … Continue reading
Posted in Humorous, Review, School setting, YA Lit
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