Monthly Archives: October 2011
Adventures with Audiobooks: Bossypants by Tina Fey
Review: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Trigger warning: Speak deals with rape. It’s Melinda Sordino’s freshman year of high school and it gets off to a bad start. She called the police at an end of summer party. The cops break up the party and some people get busted. So when school starts, she’s an outcast. Her former friends hate…
Why I Read YA
Young adult literature seems to be in a funny place right now. Rather, how adults talk about YA seems to be in a funny place right now. On the one hand, we have people like Meghan Cox Gurdon who lament how horribly dark YA is and how we need to protect children from it….
Review: Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Trigger Warning: Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan contains instances rape and incest. Furthermore, I don’t think it’s possible to discuss the book without mentioning those plot elements as part of the review. Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels is a story of healing with fairy tale influences. Liga didn’t have a good childhood by any stretch…
What is the Best Way to Decide What to Let Kids Read?
Yes, I’ve been talking about posting my thoughts on this subject for some time. It’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about, but seem to have a hard time articulating my thoughts. When I sat down to write my post for the first time, what came out was a very long, very disorganized mess….
Review: The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines by Mike Madrid
Audio, Digital and Paper, Oh My!
There’s this web series on YouTube called InterrobangYA, where book bloggers who blog about YA literature discuss various things relating to YA. I was really interested in Danielle’s recent video about formats..i.e. audiobooks vs. eBooks vs. paper books. I’d kind of been thinking about these issues and was going to post about it anyway,…
Notes from the Bibliosphere: Where Bibliogrrrl Goes From Here
Notes from the Bibliosphere is a semi regular feature I do here on Bibliogrrrl. It’s usually posted on Sunday and is where I reflect on book blogging and/or share things I’m interested in from the bibliosphere. When I started Bibliogrrrl in June, I had notebooks full of what I call book reviews: my thoughts…
Review: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
A Swiftly Turning Planet, the third book published in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time quintet (apparently, Many Waters takes place in time between A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Turning Planet, but wasn’t published until later) occurs about nine years after A Wind in the Door. Meg is now married to Calvin and pregnant;…
Review: A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle
Set about a year after A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind In the Door follows Meg Murry and Calvin O’Keefe on a quest to save Meg’s brother, Charles Wallace. Charles Wallace has a medical condition that the medical field hasn’t yet learned how to treat. In the second novel of Madeleine L’Engle’s Time quintet,…
