by ta | Feb 11, 2009 | Fiction, YA
Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie succumbs to the demons within, Lia feels she is being haunted by...
by ta | Feb 8, 2009 | Fiction
From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to...
by ta | Feb 2, 2009 | Challenges
We’ve noticed that the challenges on our sidebar are woefully out of date, but the number of challenges springing up in the blogosphere just keep growing. Here are a few more we’d like to share with you. And don’t forget our version of the Genre...
by ta | Jan 27, 2009 | Fiction
Local writer, John Updike died today of lung cancer. Here’s an excerpt from the Boston Globe: A master of many authorial trades, Mr. Updike was novelist, short story writer, critic, poet — and in each role as prolific as he was gifted. He aimed to produce...
by ta | Jan 21, 2009 | Fiction
Reading Toni Morrison is like taking a master class in how to write characters. Morrison delves deep into the psyche of her characters and finds that raw, vulnerable place in each one. Morrison gathers together an uncommon group who have been cast off from society. ...
