Halloween is approaching! I hope you all have your costumes lined up. Are you going as a spooky literary character, like Mrs. Havisham or Dracula or Claudia Kishi’s accessory drawer? I hope so! Have you heard about All Hallow’s Read? Probably you have because Neil Gaiman started it and Neil Gaiman is directly plugged in… Continue reading All Hallow’s Read
Month: October 2011
Music Monday: Dinosaur
You guys, I love Ke$ha. Were you aware? She’s just so consistently hilarious and trashy. Love her. So, naturally, this summer when I found myself with a group of young children whose group was called “the dinosaurs,” my first response was to chant the first two lines of Ke$ha’s brilliant song, “Dinosaur”: D-I-N-O-S-A you are… Continue reading Music Monday: Dinosaur
Chime On You Crazy Diamond
So, anyone who follows YA lit at all has probably already heard about the Shine/Chime debacle. However, I know I have a few friends whose only real contact with the world of YA lit is through this blog, and so I feel honor-bound to report about this. Also, I think the story is hilarious. Basically?… Continue reading Chime On You Crazy Diamond
Music Monday: Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
I might have mentioned before that I love Selena Gomez. It’s true! I do. This was one of the first songs of hers that I heard. It’s featured in Another Cinderella Story and I highly recommend it for working out or just listening to it and feeling sassier. I actually just watched that video for… Continue reading Music Monday: Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
Rock Me, Bartimaeus (and other thoughts on fantasy)
This week was FANTASY WEEK in my children’s literature class! We read: The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt*, and Sector 7 by David Wiesner. But I just want to talk about The Ring of Solomon. Jonathan Stroud was not at all on my radar until I saw him at… Continue reading Rock Me, Bartimaeus (and other thoughts on fantasy)
Music Monday: Life’s What You Make It
Guys, somebody stole my laptop last night! To cheer myself up I am listening to mad tween pop. Join me, won’t you? You’re so right, Ms. Montana. Life is what I make it. I shouldn’t let no small frustrations bring me down. I feel better already!
Review: Modelland
You guys. You GUYS. Modelland is 563 pages long. And I read them all. (Or skimmed some of them. Maybe. A little.) As we all expected, it is awful. It’s more… creatively awful than I might have expected. Modelland takes place in some kind of bizarre fashion-themed dystopia. Girls growing up in this world can… Continue reading Review: Modelland
Music Monday: S.O.S.
Well, last week I talked about Justin Bieber, so today I may as well address the other JB: the Jonas Brothers. Remember them? Come on. They were on the cover of Rolling Stone. They haven’t released an album together since 2009, though Nick Jonas and Joe Jonas are both attempting solo careers. People frequently try… Continue reading Music Monday: S.O.S.