I hope everyone who celebrates it had a good Thanksgiving. Yesterday I dined in the company of, among others, a high school freshman who declared her absolute allegiance to Kristin Cashore. We are both looking forward to Bitterblue. She also bragged about having read Ayn Rand, but I put that little notion in its place [...]
The kids I get; it’s the grown women who scare me*
November 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
Wow, those Twihards are certainly enterprising. *and yes, this includes YOU.
Less is more, darling.
October 4, 2011 By 4 Comments
Dear Tyra: As host of America’s Next Top Model, you’ve given many well-deserved dressings down (literally) to the overeager, overdone girls on the runway. “Remove that belt,” you might say; “Take off those shoulder-duster earrings;” “That teased-out hair? Slick it back into a low ponytail. Now you look like a model.” And now you look [...]
>One for the boys
December 8, 2010 By 24 Comments
>Peter asks a really good question about the William C. Morris Award for first-time YA writers. I hadn’t realized that fourteen of the fifteen shortlisted finalists thus far have been women. Given the buzz around (and the merit of) Charles Benoit’s You, I was expecting to see that there. [Edited to read: until I discovered [...]
>Eating Our Own
August 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
>Writing in the August 8th issue of Entertainment Weekly about the divided reception to the memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Karen Valby comments, “When women rally around something in pop culture, it isn’t long before the objects of their affection are loudly trivialized or dismissed.” What she doesn’t say–and what I think–is that the sneerers are [...]
>What, you mean we’re not all pretty?
April 30, 2010 By 1 Comment
>More about boys
April 6, 2010 By 2 Comments
>Jacob’s Java?
December 8, 2009 By 1 Comment
>Paging the Ambassador . . .
October 28, 2009 By 8 Comments
>The most interesting statistic of this teen reading survey concerns who responded to it: “while we purposely marketed the survey to attract male readers, females are the vast majority (96%) of responders.” It would be really good to know if book reading breaks down in similarly dramatic proportions. We know that girls and women read [...]
