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A few months ago, I subscribed to Jackson Pearce’s Youtube Channel. Pearce falls into the category of authors whose work I’ve never read but really want to. As I was going through some of her past videos, I came across this one about book piracy: And I found myself thinking about book piracy. There…
Trigger warning: Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott deals with rape and sexual abuse as does the content of the below post. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away. Alice is now fifteen and fears that Ray will kill her; he is growing tired of her, she’s too old. After five years of…
Deanna’s first sexual encounter was her brother’s best friend, Tommy. When her father catches them in the act, Tommy is 17 and Deanna is 13. Sara Zarr’s debut novel, Story of a Girl, deals with what Deanna considers to be a big mistake. Tommy ultimately tells everyone at school that Deanna is “easy” and…
By the time you read this, I’ll be on vacation. I had thought I’d have some posts scheduled, but I got busy and that didn’t work out. I’ll be back sometime after labor day.
Those who care to look through the archives have may notice that the first post here was in June of this year. When I started the blog, I had notebooks full of handwritten book reviews. I figured I’d start by typing them up and sharing them here. Many of these reviews have appeared here,…
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Amazon is hoping to create a Netflix like service for eBooks. Members would pay a flat fee and could read “borrowed” eBooks on their Kindles. I was originally going to discuss this news in my post about book piracy, but I figured that post was long enough…
Meg Murry’s story begins one dark and stormy night with a knock at the door. Meg’s father has been gone for some time and nobody knows where he has gone. It’s up to Meg, her brother Charles Wallace and their friend Calvin O’Keefe to find Mr. Murry and bring him home. With a little…
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 bookblogging and/or share things I’m interested in from the bibliosphere. I’ve had an interesting week on the blog front. It was my first Banned Books Week as a book…
I was looking forward to reading Peggy Orenstein’s Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, despite not having a daughter myself. While reading Orenstein’s book, I tried to remember what playing was like as a kid. The Disney Princess thing wasn’t big yet. In fact, my favorite Disney…
Back when Bibliogrrrl was just this idea that I had, I kept coming back to banned books week. “Yeah,” I thought enthusiastically, “I’ll start a book blog, do something in honor of Banned Books Week, and it’ll be awesome!” Of course, we are now in the midst of Banned Books Week and that awesome…
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….
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 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…
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;…
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,…
Some backstory: I’ve started keeping a list of the books I read over the course of the year in 2009. Around the same time, I started writing down thoughts of some of the books I’ve read in a notebook. I thought I’d start off by posting most of these “reviews” here on bibliogrrrl. It…
Format: Paperback Published on: September 23rd 2008 Published by: Vintage Pages: 320 ISBN: 1400075270 Goodreads Like many people, I was familiar with the saying “well-behaved women seldom make history” but knew nothing about the author until I got to college. As part of a women’s history class, I read Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s books A…
Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme that asks a book related question. Participants post the answer on their blog and then comment on the entry. This week’s question: With the advent (and growing popularity) of eBooks, I’m seeing more and more articles about how much “better” they can be, because they have the…
The Wall Street Journal posted an article by Meghan Cox Gurdon attacking young adult literature caused a shit storm of a response over the interwebs. I feel like others have already addressed the problems with the article itself better and more eloquently than I could have, so I’m just going to suggest you read…
Format: Paperback Published on: December 29th 2008 Published by: PublicAffairs Pages: 288 ISBN: 1586486470 Goodreads I knew or rather heard stories of some of the realities abortion providers face: shootings, arson, attacks on clinics. Because the murder of Dr. George Tiller had not yet happened when I read Susan Wicklund’s memoir, This Common Secret:…
As I was messing around with bibliogrrrl, I pretty much broke the site and hat to start all over again. I guess I should know better than to try any fancy PHP stuff, or at least have everything backed up first. Hello again, I’m Joss. For full disclosure, Joss is a pseudonym; it’s the…
Format: Paperback Published on: September 1st 2006 Published by: Harper Perennial Pages: 162 ISBN: 0061139378 Goodreads When Coraline moves into a new flat with her parents, she finds a locked door that leads to nowhere. That is, until she discovers that the door actually leads to a flat very much like her own in…
Here’s what I read in 2010. 1. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray 2. I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block 3. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare 4. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous 5. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen 6. Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton 7. Shelf…
Some backstory: I’ve started keeping a list of the books I read over the course of the year in 2009. Around the same time, I started writing down thoughts of some of the books I’ve read in a notebook. I thought I’d start off by posting most of these “reviews” here on bibliogrrrl. It…
Format: Paperback Published on: September 23rd 2008 Published by: Vintage Pages: 320 ISBN: 1400075270 Goodreads Like many people, I was familiar with the saying “well-behaved women seldom make history” but knew nothing about the author until I got to college. As part of a women’s history class, I read Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s books A…
Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme that asks a book related question. Participants post the answer on their blog and then comment on the entry. This week’s question: With the advent (and growing popularity) of eBooks, I’m seeing more and more articles about how much “better” they can be, because they have the…
The Wall Street Journal posted an article by Meghan Cox Gurdon attacking young adult literature caused a shit storm of a response over the interwebs. I feel like others have already addressed the problems with the article itself better and more eloquently than I could have, so I’m just going to suggest you read…
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