Exciting News

So, thanks to this lovely lil' blog here 

I get to read and review the forthcoming novel Fade to Blue 

by Sean Beaudoin, author of Going Nowhere Fast. 

I know you will be eagerly awaiting this, 

so while I lounge poolside in California 

I will make sure to get my read on. 

In the meantime, check out his website: 

there is a really cool NAME MY NEXT BOOK CONTEST 

that I'm sure one of my clever colleagues can win!

Scholastic v. Teachers re: Catalog O' Crap

Well my dear sweet blogosphere- what do you think of this? 

Us v Them Again

Another article discussing the abundance of gruesome and depressing topics in Young Adult literature...why do adults (who publish and read J.M. Coetzee, Jodi Picoult, Chuck Palahniuk, Toni Morrison and the like) continuously seem surprised that teenagers look to literature for the same reasons they do; entertainment, education, catharsis, provocation.  Why do so many adults need there to be such a separation between adult and young adult fiction? In the 1930's Melvin B Tolson wrote, "Somebody has to black hisself/ For somebody else to stay white." Perhaps it is this same perverse logic that drives the adult need to see teenagers as distinctly different so as to make their adultness seem more precious and profound.

Book Review

Thirteen Reasons Why

by Jay Asher

4 scoops

Knowledge is Power

Books matter. If you need further proof, read this.