by Rebecca | Feb 25, 2013 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, middle grade, MMGM, slightly incoherent due to revision brain, this is how we read it, What I'm Reading Right Now
Marvelous Middle-Grade Monday is hosted every Monday by Shannon Messenger. Today I want to talk about Joanne Levy’s great MG, Small Medium at Large. From the publisher (Bloomsbury):After she’s hit by lightning at a wedding, twelve-year-old Lilah Bloom develops a...
by Rebecca | Feb 4, 2013 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, books, middle grade, MMGM, this is how we read it, What I'm Reading Right Now
I’m really excited to join in the Marvelous Middle-Grade Monday fun, hosted every Monday by Shannon Messenger. Today I want to talk about Amber McRee Turner’s fantastic debut, Sway. From the publisher (Disney*Hyperion): For four long months, ten-year-old...
by Rebecca | Sep 12, 2011 | books, I talk about food too much, in which I embarrass myself, treat this post as evidence of procrastination, What I'm Reading Right Now
I had so much fun reading Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens. So much fun that I didn’t want to write a review or even sum up my thoughts on the madcap, hilarious satire. Instead, here’s my homage to that perfect end-of-summer read: my own contestant fun...
by Rebecca | Jul 11, 2011 | AWESOMENESS, books, confessions, in which I embarrass myself, What I'm Reading Right Now
You might know that I am a fearful flier; in fact, you probably know it because one of the ways I “deal” with my fear is by blabbing to everyone I come into contact with about how freaked out I get about planes. Before a flight, I might talk about my...
