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This blog has moved 10 Sep 2011 | 04:04 am
and it, along with its archives, can now be found over here.
New World Coming 30 Aug 2011 | 04:39 am
A new website, anyway, launching next Tuesday, September 6th (fingers, legs, eyes, toes, etc. crossed). The address remains the same--www.hbook.com--but the look will be livelier and the navigation ea...
The cake she baked 25 Aug 2011 | 04:12 am
Simmons gal Susan Bloom made this delicious wedding cake for us, chocolate with praline frosting. YUM. While it is true that I am taller than Richard, I am represented by the little faux-Hummel guy in...
Reader, 22 Aug 2011 | 11:10 am
I married him.
Family Values 17 Aug 2011 | 05:37 am
After twenty-odd years of living in sin, Richard and I are getting married this weekend (the pic above is from the lovely surprise shower thrown for me today by the Horn Book ladies) and tomorrow is t...
Cross out Beezus! 13 Aug 2011 | 03:16 am
I just saw two three four new YA novels indulging employing annoying pervasive strike-throughs to indicate a narrator's dithering second thoughts or transparently self-buffing lies strategic rearrang...
Question re The Help, 11 Aug 2011 | 06:33 am
which I have just finished and found interesting in ways intended and otherwise. But I am unsure about a major plot point and will to try to phrase my question so as not to spoil it for anyone plannin...
Hubris alert 7 Aug 2011 | 01:38 am
I am looking forward to the ART production of Porgy and Bess, the first opera I ever saw from good seats (I was taken by the late great Oz librarian Margaret Trask twenty-five years ago in Sydney) an...
Counting YA 4 Aug 2011 | 05:06 am
Harold Underdown has done some interesting digging into the statistics about YA publishing that were used by journalist D.B. Grady for an article in the Atlantic. But whether there were 30,000 YA nove...
Press here 3 Aug 2011 | 03:36 am
I was just checking some links for the forthcoming issue of Notes from the Horn Book and found this beautiful thing.
