A Year of Reading

What a delicious problem. My German "mom" sent me A LINE OF BEAUTY by Alan Hollinghurst (Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize) for...

HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE by Chris Roberson is much much MUCH better than TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE. CRISS CROSS was good, but not a Newbery...

I think it's the Washington Post that has a vocabulary contest every year. You change one letter in a word to make a new word, and writ...

Franki, are you sick of me sending you clippings from USA Today about the "Strange Case of James Frey -- as Dickens might have termed i...

Well, I finally picked up a copy of CRISS CROSS by Lynne Rae Perkins--the Newbery Award winner this year. Actually, I can already see why i...

I feel like I never have enough time to read, but I spend all day reading: reading the sky -- will it rain? reading a ...

In honor of this year's Newbery winner, CRISS CROSS, I decided to read last year's two-word-title, come-from-nowhere winner, KIRA KI...

I just finished two great books. A friend recommended THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls. What an amazing story. It is the memoir of report...

"of or having to do with factors connected with but not essentially part of language, such as tone of voice, tempo of speech, gestures,...

With the Newbery Award being announced this coming Monday, does anyone else have any predictions? We'd love to hear them.