Bookshelves of Lesser Doom
A spot for my on-the-fly mini-posts:
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Most everything else is at Bookshelves of Doom.
Posts tagged death
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)
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May 20 '11
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“I leaned over and touched the casket with two fingers. The solidity of the hard surface was unexpectedly reassuring, and I pressed my entire palm flat against the beveled corner. I could feel through my hand the thunder of the exiting crowd. These vibrations were life, and for a moment my mother was part of it.”
— Rotters, by Daniel Kraus.
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Dec 30 '10
