>As Peter observed in another context last Sunday, so many people have Ursula Nordstrom spinning in her grave that it must be like a blender in there. This won’t help.
>Breaking Dawn Breakdown
August 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
For the Lovers and the Fighters
August 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
>Fans and readers
August 4, 2008 By 22 Comments
>We didn’t receive a review copy of Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn, so you won’t find any spoilers here. What I’ve been finding fascinating in a train-wreck kind of way are the vox populi debates over at Amazon.com, particularly a discussion thread attempting to start a RETURN THIS BOOK campaign in protest of Meyer’s “betrayal” of [...]
>Voice of the People
July 4, 2008 By 4 Comments
>Is long the new short?
April 23, 2008 By 7 Comments
>I just picked up Katherine Applegate’s Beach Blondes: A Summer Novel (Simon Pulse) and boy are my arms tired. This sucker is 721 paperback pages long, and first in a series to boot. I’m guessing it’s so fat for some strategic marketing reason, or perhaps I just haven’t yet gotten to the chapter “This Is [...]
>It’s not a word to throw around lightly
April 22, 2008 By 7 Comments
>Code Pink
March 24, 2008 By 10 Comments
>Scanning the multitudes of new books throughout the office, I am struck–again–by the endurance of pink covers on light teen girl fiction. I know this is nothing new; what interests me is the fact that I wrote about this four years ago, and I’m surprised it still works–not the chicklit formula, which is eternal, but [...]
>My favorite new reviewing word,
March 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
