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This has always been my favorite time of year. Fall colors, new school supplies, my birthday… …and now, with it firmly in the blogosphere, the start of book award season. On Friday, Betsy “stepped up her game” at Fuse #8, and Roger put the trend of speculation-frenzy into perspective. The first week of blogging here […]
I liked THE UNDERNEATH quite a bit, but I found the resolution of the stories vaguely unsatisfying. HOLES, THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX, and AMERICAN BORN CHINESE have set the bar pretty high for these kind of stories, and I just felt like something about the ending was a little bit off. Maybe a second reading […]
Alright, I figured the photo of my shelves would be a good opening party trick, but I do have to explain that those piles will start shifting, and quickly, as we get going in our discussions. So let’s go! Why not start with A Conspiracy of Kings, whose position in my pile many of you […]
Many of the books that we discussed last year continued to win prizes during our hiatus, and I want to mention a couple that I helped choose. First, MARCHING FOR FREEDOM is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize with CHARLES AND EMMA, THE LOST CONSPIRACY, THE RISE AND FALL OF SENATOR JOE McCARTHY, and TALES […]
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We’re back! Welcome to another year of Heavy Medal, the blog of everything Mock Newbery. Through the next few months, Jonathan and I will discuss the Newbery medal and possible contenders for this year. We’ll also invite you to and report on our live Mock Newbery discussion held in Oakland CA, and on the final, […]
REBECCA STEAD REDUX Peter Sieruta talks about the first printing. Monica Edinger talks about genre mashups. And Studio 360 interviews the author. LOOKING BACK Well, it’s been five months of stimulating, enriching book discussion with me playing Sue Sylvester to Nina’s Will Schuester, but now it draws to a close. I’d like to thank everybody, not only for generous participation in the […]
Monica and I both recall reading Rebecca Stead’s First Light the year we were on the Newbery Committee together. My impression was that it was a highly provocative and promising and flawed first novel. It was the favorite–bar none–of a twelve-year-old reader whose opinion I was "using" that year. It was at Midwinter 2009 that […]
I had hoped to be able to comment on THE MOSTLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF HOMER P. FIGG, but I have been unable to retrieve my copy from the student, and my hold at the public library has not become available yet, so my commentary on that book will have to wait. Historical fiction, as many of […]
"I have another picture book for your consideration–one with a longer, more independent text…" That was our first sign: The excerpt Sign number 2: Jonathan’s analysis. An easy analysis to make, in Jonathan’s case. Sign number 3: I got on the bandwagon And sign number 4, …buried in the comments, Jonathan and I note how […]
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