It’s a Blog Takeover by Victoria Krol, a teen writer who has questions for me—-because she’s awesome, and it’s SNOW GLOBE WISHES‘ Book Birthday! By the way, I’m not the first author Victoria has interviewed. Photo R was taken during her interview with Richard Peck! Needless to say, I am honored to answer her questions. Q1: Since the Book Birthday of Snow Globe… Read more »
Category: Confessions (and Reviews) of a Teenage Readaholic
Confessions (& Reviews) of a no-longer-Teenage Readaholic, pt5
I haven’t posted a book review for a while and since today is my GORGEOUS friend Jill Sanford’s BIRTHDAY (Surprise! ) I give you herewith, her very first book review: I loved Becky and was never dissatisfied with her as the heroine of GORGEOUS (Scholastic Press). I appreciated her pluckiness and discomfort with being Rebecca… Read more »
Confessions (and Reviews) of a Teenage Readaholic, part 4
Teen reviewer Maris is off to college, but she’s still reading..and reviewing: (Go Bears! Have a great year, Maris!) This review comes to you from my dorm at UC Berkeley. Welcome Week was fun and crazy and before the big move, I managed to squeeze in some reading time: Charles de Lint’s YA novel, The… Read more »
Confessions (and Reviews) of a Teenage Readaholic, part 3
Teen reviewer Maris Dyer reviews Mara Dyer…wait—what? Confession: When I first received this book, I was terrified to read it. Not because it was a horror story or because of comments from other people who had read it, but because of the title: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. My name is Maris Dyer. Music from… Read more »
Confessions (and Reviews) of a Teenage Readaholic, part 2
She’s back….High School senior Maris takes time out from college applications to review Stiefvater’s Shiver series… Confession:I have to admit—when I first heard about Maggie Stiefvater’s Wolves of Mercy Falls series (Scholastic), I was not planning on liking it. I was done reading the slew of paranormal romance that came out after the success of… Read more »