Bookshelves of Lesser Doom
A spot for my on-the-fly mini-posts:
Most everything else is at Bookshelves of Doom.
Most everything else is at Bookshelves of Doom.
Oct 26 '11
Oct 26 '11
Oct 6 '11
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“This is a population of young people who don’t remember a time when the country was not at war. It makes perfect sense that their literature would allow them a way to exercise their thoughts about the nature of good and evil, and that it might reflect violence and great loss.”
— Rosemary Stimola, on current YA fiction.
(Source: publishersweekly.com)
Oct 3 '11
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“I hate them. It’s like making believe there’s another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.”
— Maurice Sendak on ebooks.
(Source: Guardian)
Sep 29 '11
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“Whenever anyone says teen writing is crap, I tell them to read the first paragraph of a James Patterson book out loud.”
— Maya Escobar
(Source: thephoenix.com)
Sep 28 '11
Sep 27 '11
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“I don’t have a problem with her forbidding her daughter to read my book. But imposing her personal beliefs on every child at the school makes her no better than a book burner. As the playwright and journalist Clare Booth Luce once put it: “Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.”
— Sonya Sones, on the many challenges to the ever-fabulous What My Mother Doesn’t Know.
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
Sep 27 '11
Sep 27 '11
Sep 26 '11
