Archive for the ‘young adult’ Category

At long last

Wednesday, June 9th, 2004

Finally! After months and months, Garth Nix's personal site has been updated. For those of you not in the know re: young adult literature, Nix is a rising star - he's written a trilogy of books that've been very well received by both teens and adults, has completed one series ...

Knowing when to quit (reading, that is)

Thursday, March 11th, 2004

I don't abandon books easily; for the most part, if I start reading something, I eventually finish it, even if it takes me a while. I can think of two that I dropped last year out of the 135 or so I started, and I've lost one this year out ...

Woo, woo

Monday, December 15th, 2003

Book finished: Grim Tuesday Total time elapsed: 2.2 hours Emotion felt: elation, followed swiftly by anticipation for Drowned Wednesday Now off to reread Mister Monday and Grim Tuesday to add to/finalize the initial-launch content for the Atlas...

Ohmigosh ohmigosh ohmigosh

Sunday, December 14th, 2003

I just found out through Readerville that the newest book of Garth Nix's The Keys to the Kingdom series is now available. Happily, my local chain bookstore is open til midnight on Sundays, so I'm now the proud owner of Grim Tuesday. In the spirit of self-discipline, however, I'm holding ...

Prydain

Monday, December 1st, 2003

This post brought to you from Readerville, where a discussion of the Prydain Chronicles has just begun... --- My earliest memory of TPC is intimately tied to the public library in my hometown. I can distinctly remember wandering into the A's section of the children's lit and seeing the cover of The ...