By Meg Rosoff on 24 April 2010
It’s the question on thousands of teenage lips, one I tried to bribe my daughter to ask her school librarian — as a test, and also because I was curious. A good librarian (ie, one who loves and reads books) should be able to answer even a really difficult question like ‘what should I read [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged A Wrinkle in Time, Alyson Condie, Bridget Jones' Diary, Chronicles of Prydain, Cosmic, Finding Violet Park, Framed, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Jenny Valentine, Jerry Spinelli, Kate di Camillo, Knife of Never Letting Go, Lloyd Alexamnder, Lois Lowry, Madeleine L'Engle, mal peet, Malorie Blackman, Matched, Millions, Morris Gleitzman, Noughts and Crosses, Now, Once, Patrick Ness, Paul Faustino, Penalty, Sally Gardner, Stargirl, Suzanne Collins, The Giver, The Magician's Elephant, The Red Necklace, Then |
By Meg Rosoff on 29 March 2010
So I dusted myself down from the hunt (hosed, more like — I was soaked to the skin and covered in mud), staggered home from West Sussex and fell into bed. The damned clocks would choose last weekend to go forward, so up at 6am to get dressed and organized for the Oxford Literary Festival. [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel, mal peet, Oxford Literary festival, Paul Faustino, PD James, Wolf Hall |
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