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The "Company is in Town and I Have No Time" Edition

Tuesday
May 8
2007
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Family is in town this week so I will be a little light on posting. I did want to point out the new issue of Bookslut - my column has fantasy titles for young adults and I also reviewed a novel set in Alaska, The Flight of the Goose and a new graphic novel from GT Labs, Wire Mothers.

I'll be writing about all those reviews in the next couple of days, hopefully. Also be sure to look at Monday's post on Wicked Cool Overlooked Books - I've updated it to include other WCOBs that were mentioned around the net.

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Jenny D
Tuesday
May 8
2007
06:05 PM

That is a great column! I've read a few of those already, & completely agree with you--can't wait to check out the Nina Kiriki Hoffman one too, I first read her a few years ago & just really fell in love with the high quality of her writing and character development in particular--I feel her books should be much more widely known/read...

Colleen
Wednesday
May 9
2007
02:39 AM

Nina's book is a lot of fun and you'll love it. I really was impressed with the world she created and I'm interested to see what you think. (Plus I love a good college story - that setting is one of my favorites.)

TadMack
Friday
May 11
2007
06:16 PM

What I loved about the Hoffman book was that the "enemy" was so much closer than they knew - and yet it was an evil that came out of ...an attempt at affection that became an addiction, which is just such a great relationship metaphor (that was maybe unintentional, and maybe I read too much into it, but that made it that much cooler to me as a college tale!).

Colleen
Sunday
May 13
2007
02:28 AM

I think you read it very well actually. It was a relationship - or yearning for relationship - that just went very wrong. Of course the viri are basically evil, so it wasn't so hard for the whole thing to go south, but still. I saw a lot of similarities with the real world in the way this story was told; it reminded me of my own high school and college experiences.

Margery Glickman
Sunday
May 13
2007
07:41 AM

Thinking about Alaska and sled dogs? The Iditarod is cruel to dogs. For the facts, visit the Sled Dog Action Coalition website, http://www.helpsleddogs.org

Colleen
Sunday
May 13
2007
01:33 PM

Margery I lived in Alaska for ten years; there is nothing a website can tell me about sled dogs that I don't already know (good and bad). Believe me, the Iditarod is not cruel at all when compared to a life lived at the end of a chain in a dog lot.

Flight of the Goose is barely about sled dogs and what Thomas includes about them is very true to the time and place. It's an excellent book about clashing cultures in the period prior to the AK pipeline and I was quite impressed with it.

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