Thomas Wharton’s Icefields (1995)

2014-03-13T20:55:15-04:00

Thomas Wharton's Icefields (1995) Readers will recognize quickly whether there is a match to be made between them and Thomas Wharton's first novel. Ten pages should do it. First, there is the epigraph, from Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter: "As if everything in the world is the history of ice."

Thomas Wharton’s Icefields (1995)2014-03-13T20:55:15-04:00

Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Running out of Time (1995)

2014-03-09T19:07:16-04:00

Image Links to Challenge Site Margaret Peterson Haddix's Running out of Time (1995) Aladdin - Simon&Schuster, 1997 The Hunger Games meets "Little House on the Prairie" The Giver meets "The Truman Show" Yup, if I'd met Jessie Keyser in the pages of Running Out of Time when I

Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Running out of Time (1995)2014-03-09T19:07:16-04:00

Four-leggeds in bookish fiction

2014-07-11T15:57:18-04:00

Dick King-Smith's The School Mouse Illus. Cynthia Fisher Hyperion, 1995 The School Mouse is one of the books chosen by Shireen Dodson in her book 100 Books for Girls to Grow On, a list that I've been pulling from since 2008. It seemed the perfect choice for September: Back-to-School. And that's just what

Four-leggeds in bookish fiction2014-07-11T15:57:18-04:00

Hooked on Pat Barker

2014-02-27T19:10:59-05:00

Arguably the best novel of the trilogy, for having been nominated for Orange Prize in 1996 and having won the Booker that year, there was no question in my mind as to whether I would read on following Regeneration and The Eye in the Door.  Despite my habit of resisting war

Hooked on Pat Barker2014-02-27T19:10:59-05:00

Making excuses to read good writers

2014-02-27T17:24:58-05:00

Dorothy West’s The Wedding VMC No. 431 (1995) I’ve been moving through time on Thursdays in Black History Month, from the mid-19th-Century in Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative, through Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine, through the 1950’s in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones, and now to the Oval area

Making excuses to read good writers2014-02-27T17:24:58-05:00
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