Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq, Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger
We had to read Zlata’s Diary in ninth grade, and I remember thinking, Sheesh, if I were Zlata as a grown-up, I would really wish these diaries weren’t out there. They are just like the diaries I kept at [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Three mini-reviews
Posted in Misc., Picked up randomly, tagged Betsy McAlister Groves, Children Who See Too Much, diaries, essays, nonfiction, Regarding the Pain of Others, Stolen Voices, Susan Sontag, World Wars, Zlata's Diary on July 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged good dialogue, not much plot, oscar wilde, Robertson Davies, Tarot cards, The Rebel Angels on July 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
You know what my favorite thing about this book was? And don’t think I’m saying this in an anti-Rebel-Angels way at all, because I’m not and I loved Parlabane even though his (spoilers, I guess?) farewell letter was silly. My favorite thing about this book is that the main character (I think I can call [...]
River of Darkness, Rennie Airth
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged mysteries, Rennie Airth, River of Darkness, World Wars on July 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Woohoo! Between-the-wars-in-England stories are my favorite kind! Plus, this is a mystery (I sometimes like mysteries), and although I read the end, I didn’t need to read the end necessarily, because the killer’s identity is known to the reader for most of the book. Lovely. Only way to do it. See, the suspense then wasn’t [...]
Censoring an Iranian Love Story, Shahriar Mandanipour
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Censoring an Iranian Love Story, satire, Shahriar Mandanipour, translation on July 29, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Censoring an Iranian Love Story is all about an Iranian writer who’s tired of writing books about oppression and misery in Iran, and he wants to write a love story, maybe not one with a Hollywood ending, but one that will be a true love story, and will not make its readers never want to [...]
Tricked, Alex Robinson
Posted in 2 Stars, Picked up randomly, tagged Alex Robinson, graphic novel, mental illness, multiple points of view, Tricked on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My graphic novel experiments continue! I checked this out because I opened it up and I liked some of the things the artist did with panels. I still do actually – there’s a page I remember, where the whole page is the character’s face, and it’s broken up into panels with dialogue across it. It’s [...]
Jane Yolen’s Alta books
Posted in 3 Stars, Reread, tagged alternate history, fantasy, Jane Yolen, Sister Light Sister Dark, White Jenna on July 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So when I was about thirteen, I thought these books, Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna were just about the best thing in the entire world. I got them from the library after my sister gave me Dragon’s Blood for my birthday, and then I wanted to get more Jane Yolen books, and seriously, [...]
