Wall Street Journal attacks young adult literature; book burnings to follow
Many love to talk about tolerance and discussion but someone writes an article they disagree with on a subject near and dear to their heart and they react as if...
Tag: Fiction
Matthew Battles on Centuries of June
Matthew Battles reviews Centuries of June: A Novel at The Barnes & Noble Review and offers what feels a little like a backhanded compliment: Donohue manages...
New York Times on Toward You by Jim Krusoe
Following in my footsteps the NYT has a review of Toward You by Jim Krusoe. Sam Munson doesn’t care much for the parts of the story not in the narrator&#...
Black Ghosts by Victor Ostrovsky
Black Ghosts struck me as quintessential airport reading; the type of book you would pick up at the airport because you need something to read on a long flight ...
Lucy and the Green Man by Linda Newbery
I saw Lucy and the Green Man at the public library while in the kids area with my, well, kids. I immediately thought of my wife as she loves gardening and the o...
Toward You by Jim Krusoe
Krusoe is clearly a talented wordsmith with a witty eye for the lives and relationships of the socially challenged. But for me it seems the combination of lead ...