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Sunday Salon: Books Read in June, 2010

Posted by Sherry on Jul 4, 2010 in --June, Booklists, General

Adult Fiction: The Laws of Harmony by Judith Hendricks. Very Good, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. So Much For That by Lionel Shriver. Ms. Shriver rants about health care, and tells a pretty good story. Semicolon review here. Mandala by Pearl S. Buck. Set in India, not China. Children’s and YA Fiction: Dolphin Song by Lauren [...]

 
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52 Ways to Celebrate Independence Day

Posted by Sherry on Jul 1, 2010 in --July, Booklists, Celebrations, General, History

1. O Beautiful for spacious skies . . .

 
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More Cures for a Slow Summer

Posted by Sherry on Jun 4, 2010 in 2010 Projects, Blogamundi (Links), Booklists, Education and Homeschool, General

My posts about things to do for those who need a cure for summer boredom continue to be quite popular and bring lots of hits to this blog. You can look at some of these ideas in the following posts: June: Celebrations, Links, and Birthdays Bored –Nothing to Do: 100 Ideas to Cure Boredom 100 [...]

 
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Sunday Salon: Books Read in May, 2010

Posted by Sherry on May 30, 2010 in 2010 Projects, Booklists, General, Sunday Salon

Children and YA Fiction: To Come and Go Like Magic by Katie Pickard Fawcett. Semicolon review here. The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone. Magical miniature rooms in a Chicago museum. Semicolon review here. The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork (the same author who wrote Marcelo in the Real World). Semicolon [...]

 
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The Books I Would Like to See at BEA–If I Were There

Posted by Sherry on May 27, 2010 in Booklists, General

Children’s and YA Fiction: Alvin Ho: Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects, and Other Man-Made Catastrophes by Lenore Look (Schwartz & Wade, September 2010). The Three Little Dassies by Jan Brett. (Putnam Juvenile, September, 2010) Betsy Red Hoodie by Gail Carson Levine. (HarperCollins, September, 2010) Hero by Mike Lupica (Philomel). A 14-year-old boy develops superpowers [...]

 
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Summer Reading: 52 Picks for the Hols

Posted by Sherry on May 24, 2010 in Booklists, General, Projects

I used to love to read the British slang in books by C.S. Lewis, E. Nesbit, P.G. Wodehouse, and others. It took me a long time to figure out that those kids weren’t carrying actual torches in their pockets (how?), but rather normal old flashlights. And “hols” were holidays, any break from school. Some of [...]

 
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Sunday Salon: Books Read in April, 2010

Posted by Sherry on May 2, 2010 in Booklists, General

Nonfiction: Apparent Danger: The Pastor of America’s First Megachurch and the Texas Murder Trial of the Decade in the 1920′s by David Stokes. Semicolon review here. Plan B by Pete Wilson. The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else by Christopher R. Beha. A Walk [...]

 
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Christy Awards for Christian Fiction

Posted by Sherry on Apr 29, 2010 in Booklists

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The Christy Advisory Board is pleased to announce nominees in nine categories for the 2010 Christy Awards honoring Christian fiction. The Christy Awards will be conferred in advance of the International Christian Retailing Show at a ceremony at the Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel, Sat., June 26, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. Author and [...]

 
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Sunday Salon: Top 100 Children’s Novels

Posted by Sherry on Apr 18, 2010 in Booklists, General

Betsy at Fuse #8 has been counting down the Top 100 Children’s Novels from the survey she took back in January. Then, Teacher Ninja turned the list into a meme: which of the Top 100 Children’s Novels have you read? I put the ones I’ve read in bold, and the ones I’ve tasted in italics. [...]

 
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Sunday Salon: Books Read in February/March, 2010

Posted by Sherry on Apr 11, 2010 in 2010 Projects, Adult Fiction, Booklists, General, Sunday Salon

Young Adult Fiction: The Maze Runner by James Dashner. Semicolon review here. How To Say Goodbye In Robot by Natalie Standiford. Quite odd, but sort of fun. This one made the Cybils YA fiction shortlist. If you read it, expect something totally different, like late night conspiracy-theory UFO radio. Review by Melissa at Book Nut. [...]

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