Inheritance Malinda Lo Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN-10: 0316198005 I thought long and hard what to write for this review because there is so much to Malinda Lo’s awesome-sauce speculative fiction novel that I just don’t know where to begin, or to write without giving away spoilers. Inheritance […]
Starglass Phoebe North Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers ISBN-10: 1442459530 My thirteen-year-old daughter is a book worm. She’s like her mom, willing to fully immerse herself in a story, to dip down deep into imagined worlds and let the lyric of language and setting carry her away from […]
The Planet Thieves Dan Krokos Starscape: ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-3428-2 A prank gone awry catapults us into the world of Dan Krokos’ The Planet Thieves. Sometime-prankster and full-time space cadet Mason Stark chooses just the wrong moment to try to humiliate his sister, as the spaceship they are traveling aboard is suddenly […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.