Review: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
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: Bias
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…
Review: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein
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…
Banned and Challenged Books, Twilight Edition
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…
Review: The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You by Eli Pariser
