Review: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
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…
Books Read in 2010
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…
Books Read in 2009
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…
Review: Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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: Interactive?
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…
Actually, @wsj, #YAsaves
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…
