Review 22: House of Stairs
House of Stairs by William Sleator Young adult fiction must be a really tough genre to wrap your head around, for a writer. You have a story that you want to tell, and you have to tell it in such …...
View ArticleReview 107: Wizard and Glass
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King So. Now that we’ve put three books behind us, and sit at the pivot of the series, it is time that we settle down and have ourselves a little palaver about Roland, the...
View ArticleLost in the Stacks 2: Young at Heart
Marissa, a listener in the U.S., asks: “Is young adult fic something that adults should be reading too?” An excellent question, Marissa, and thank you for giving me a topic for this month’s episode of...
View ArticleReview 112: Ender’s Game
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card A little while after I started teaching literature, I thought about what kinds of books I’d like to do with students in the years to come. The texts I did last year –...
View ArticleReview 149: Speaker for the Dead
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card In his introduction to the book, Card says that the main reason he wrote his most famous book – Ender’s Game – was so that he would one day be able to …...
View ArticleReview 180: The Last Colony and Zoe’s Tale
The Last Colony and Zoë’s Tale by John Scalzi In Old Man’s War, John Scalzi brought us a new future, vast in scope, amazingly advanced and yet horribly familiar at the same time. Humans have spread out...
View ArticleReview 184: Ender’s Shadow
Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card This book made me wish I could forget that I had ever read Ender’s Game. Not because it was necessarily a better book – though it is longer – but because the two...
View ArticleReview 200: I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had
I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High by Tony Danza If you’re my age [1], the first thing you think about when you hear Tony Danza’s name is …...
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