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Writing Archives: Articles, Reviews

July 2008

June 2008

Dear Harper Collins... Jun 30
Beasts, living and dead, and those who love them Jun 26
The World is on Fire Jun 24
Round-Up Jun 22
It's not about the book Jun 22
More on boys and girls Jun 20
Not my kind of water baby Jun 19
Catalogging Counterpoint & Soft Skull Jun 18
Teen boys need to save the girl, period Jun 16
The world we live in today (among other topics) Jun 16
The heart of an explorer Jun 13
Oh, ick Jun 12
With Theodora Goss in "The Forest of Forgetting" Jun 12
Building Credibility: Eighth in a Series on Reviewing Jun 11
Round-Up Jun 10
Bringing organization to my mind's chaos Jun 09
Not the way we do things Jun 06
I think the moment is historic Jun 05
Ms Diski is traveling Jun 05
Writing the same story Jun 04
Alternate histories Jun 03
The creativity of Louis Armstrong & Joyce Carol Oates Jun 03
Looking back on May and forward to June Jun 02

May 2008

Reflecting on books we looked forward to May 30
Round-Up May 29
Catalogging Small Beer Press, Unbridled Books & Harper Collins Childrens May 28
Being brave enough to make a list May 27
The only logical way to go May 23
"I tried to hang around with early teen girls which is hard because I'm 58 and it's sort of inappropriate." May 23
"There was something so potentially cool about the idea – a year in a high school! " May 22
"The truth is, Madonna had just entered the world of picture books, and I didn't want to get any of the Superstar backlash that she got. " May 22
"Like mortal New York, fairy New York is built on layers of history." May 21
"Unless a story has real meaning, I tend to think, what’s the point?" May 21
"The real point, though, is that all the facts about any event are never going to be known, and this presents a particular problem for visual media like comics." May 20
"If the reenactment involves actual actors from the film, then I would definitely pick the love montage from crazy/beautiful so I could have some intimate time with Jay Hernandez." May 20
"Children accept stories in all kinds of forms, often in forms that might be seen by adults as too difficult, too whacky, too strange." May 19
Your Summer Blog Blast Tour 2008 Schedule May 14
First paragraph May 14
On so many small things...... May 14
Reading Round-up May 13
The history of the sled dog... May 12
Hercule Poirot with fangs May 09
Lost rivers, found gardens, lake studies and more May 08
Notes........ May 07
Lady Artists May 06
An author who knows a good story when she hears it May 05
Two stories of note May 02
A Modest Proposal May 01

April 2008

My father's best friend Apr 30
Books on the horizon (Tor & Penguin Kids Fall 2008) Apr 29
Recent Reads Apr 28
"Big Black Dog Syndrome" or Wolves Redux Apr 25
Round-Up Apr 24
Which Blogs Matter? Seventh in a series on reviewing Apr 22
And yet more on the books... Apr 22
Nostalgic visions of the card catalog Apr 21
Understanding Gaza Apr 19
The naming of things Apr 17
Cool books on the horizon Apr 15
The New York Times does AK aviation Apr 15
Why I wrote my thesis Apr 15
"There Lays That Steel Drivin' Man" Apr 14
The literary purpose of the internet Apr 11
Round-Up Apr 10
A YA mystery plot or two Apr 09
Big Bad Wolf Apr 08
Remembering Margaret Fox Apr 07
Where for art thou teen detectives? Apr 04
Some books for you...... Apr 02
But what about the books? Sixth in a Series on Reviewing Apr 02
The one about the twenty something girls Apr 01

March 2008

February 2008

January 2008

A Crash of Rhinos Jan 31
Of pigeons and pilots Jan 30
An obsession put to good use Jan 29
Reconsidering Kiki Strike Jan 29
A truly amazing discovery Jan 28
Druids are everywhere....... Jan 27
Shift in plans Jan 24
Out of Town edition and yes, I know about "Guys Read" Jan 23
Flying Cars and Lost Cities Jan 21
The endless lure of Joseph Banks, love and lost birds Jan 20
Christmas Carols, aliens and love (or yet another example of Connie Willis brilliance) Jan 18
The snake lady, Virginia Woolf and rebuilding a truck... Jan 17
Flying weather Jan 16
Books I'm looking forward to - UPDATED!!! Jan 15
Looking for Ben Eielson Jan 14
Future Fears Jan 10
Must we always blame the cheerleader? Jan 09
Round-Up Jan 07
Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff Jan 07
Resolution #1 Jan 06
What a boy wants... Jan 04
Catalogging Tor for Summer 2008 Jan 02

December 2007

Richard Scrimger Recommends... Dec 31
Danica Novgorodoff Recommends... Dec 30
David Mack Recommends... Dec 29
Liz Noland Recommends... Dec 28
Margo Rabb Recommends Dec 27
Matt Ruff Recommends... Dec 27
Kelley Eskridge Recommends... Dec 26
Nicola Griffith Recommends.... Dec 26
Nick Abadzis Recommends... Dec 25
Kristopher Reisz Recommends... Dec 23
Cherie Priest Recommends... Dec 22
Loree Griffin Burns Recommends... Dec 21
Matt Beynon Rees Recommends... Dec 20
How cool is this? Dec 20
Jen Robinson Recommends... Dec 19
Jason Rodriguez Recommends... Dec 18
Lisa Ann Sandell Recommends... Dec 18
Nicholas Christopher Recommends..... Dec 17
Why I'll never read The Thorn Birds again and other bookish thoughts Dec 16
Sharyn November Recommends... Dec 14
12th Day of Christmas: Those expensive books Dec 12
11th Day of Christmas: I Have a Secret... Dec 11
A ton of holiday recommendations for kids and teens Dec 10
10th Day of Christmas: The Dazzling Mind of Barbara Hodgson Dec 10
9th Day of Christmas: Fearless Smart Women Dec 09
7th & 8th Days of Christmas: Believing you can do it Dec 07
6th Day of Christmas: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! (and dogs...) Dec 06
5th Day of Christmas: "I've lost things too. But, as you know, in another way those things become the very things that never leave you." Dec 05
4th Day of Christmas: Graphic novels aimed at the young Dec 04
3rd Day of Christmas: Please take note of Timothy Decker Dec 03
3rd Day of Christmas: Books to read, books to watch Dec 02
1st Day of Christmas - Under mysterious circumstances Dec 01

November 2007

Twelve Days of Christmas Nov 30
How much of the history has to be correct? Nov 29
On John Wayne, Vogue and all the reasons why I only read what I want Nov 28
Notes of a historical nature Nov 28
"She was in every respect a true pioneer... Nov 26
In which some serious subjects are discussed Nov 26
So what are you going to do about it? Nov 21
On the Importance of Finding Your Tribe Nov 20
On embracing an underrated book: Fifth in a Series on Reviewing Nov 19
On saluting Sam Elliott and saving Kevin Bacon (among other things) Nov 15
I was hoping for this one...... Nov 14
Catalogging Harcout Spring/Summer 2008 Nov 14
This one has some serious twists and turns Nov 13
Lady Florence Baker Nov 12
Post Blog Tour Round-Up (Kipling, Moby, Reverte, Hill, Chang and Where You Can Hang a Flag) Nov 11
Final Winter Blog Blast Tour Entry Nov 09
"The part of the book that grabs their attention is the same part that seems to grab adults: the Garbage Patch." Nov 09
"Unlike Hamlet, Horatio is practical and down-to-earth. He’s so down-to-earth that Hamlet even gives him crap for it..." Nov 08
"It is about imagination, and it is about helping outsiders in a way that is complimentary to their uniqueness." Nov 08
"Oh, God, no, I never thought I'd be anybody. I was just hoping to have a good job. " Nov 07
"I think stories are about the human experience of the world, and happily ever after isn't the experience a lot of people have of it. " Nov 07
Politically, I want all those folks, Indian and not, who celebrate me to realize that they are also celebrating the fact that I left the rez. All of my books and movies exist because I left." Nov 07
"She stayed with me through the years, as I always wished I could give her a better story, a better ending." Nov 06
"Stinky came together as a combination of my love of metafictional writers like Cervantes and Borges and Barth and Pynchon and my experience of seeing kids crack up when they found obvious mistakes." Nov 06
"...I think creating this book was almost an answer to my child-self, distant in time but still wondering about Laika’s fate" Nov 05
"I have been working on a Victorian Gothic; I am working on a Victorian Gothic; I shall be working on a Victorian Gothic…" Nov 04
Happy Anniversary, Laika Nov 03
Your 2007 Winter Blog Blast Tour Schedule Nov 01
Questions that must be asked Nov 01

October 2007

September 2007

August 2007

"These are the damned circles Dante trod..." Aug 30
"It is also the story of his famous father, Rudyard Kipling, and why he urged his son to go off to war, and how much he suffered because of his naive ideas about glory." Aug 30
"And he said: History is an angel...Being blown backwards into the future..." Aug 30
"Do any of us truly know everything that’s going on under our own roof, let alone next door?" Aug 29
"My name is Beckett, and this is not a dream." Aug 29
"To bleed without a wound...it's very chilling." Aug 29
"Stories Change. They change too easily and too often." Aug 28
"Best of all, and this is what really sets Inas apart for me, she's a bull-vaulter. She goes into a ring with bulls, allows them to toss her into the air, and performs acrobatic stunts on their backs as they flip her. You got that? Bull. Vaulter." Aug 28
"I'm sixteen years old. It's been five years. My name is Dorothy." Aug 27
"WE might be be grossed out to eat raw horsemeat, warmed and tenderized by the sweat of our horses, from beneath our saddles -- as our hero does. But when he does it, it's just another day on the steppes." Aug 27
Radar Book Recs Schedule Aug 24
Shining a light on some truly wonderful books Aug 22
"The only thing I understand anymore is that I couldn’t save my friends and I couldn’t save my father. Maybe all I’m doing now is looking for a miracle so I finally can save myself." Aug 21
"Good dog. You can trust me." Aug 20
"the first significant protest in words and music, the first unmuted cry against racism." Aug 19
"Remember what it was to be me: that is always the point." Aug 17
From the depths below and other literary news Aug 15
One Shot World Tour: "Best Read With Vegemite" Edition Aug 15
The Real Ending Aug 12
First One Shot World Tour Schedule Aug 11
Ghost Stories Aug 08
"He said, She has a lovely face;" Aug 08
Round-Up Aug 06
Zombie Ass Kicking Edition Aug 06
Does it matter to the story if it's a man's world? Aug 03
I'm all about the original content, baby.....