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The Best Thing
Remember when I wrote about middle grade books and (essentially) altruism, and how we don’t seem to be able to do things on behalf of others any more? Well guess what? A lovely bookstore is proving me so happily wrong! They are offering the prize of a lifetime subscription of books—but you have to nominate… More
Good Old World War II
I’m currently reading The Alice Network, and I’m finding it incredibly reassuring, despite its harrowing reality. I mean we’ve got war, betrayal, Nazis, inhumanity, poverty and famine. Trouble, no? But you know what we also have? A clear and agreed-upon enemy. Shades of gray, sure, but always with the awareness and omnipresence of Good and… More
Oily, Sweaty, Dirty
Taste is somehow both subjective and objective, forming a Venn diagram I need to understand better, something that looks at where “my cup of tea” overlaps with “this is really good” or “bad.” For reasons I don’t fully understand, I often feel guilty about my taste in books—sorry when I like something (I shouldn’t like… More
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