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Subtitle: 10 Stories of the Human Heart Recommended by: laughingrat.dreamwidth.org Moto Hagio is one of the most renowned Japanese artists of shojo manga, high-quality comics for teen girls. She was one of only a few women in the genre in the seventies, and she continues creating art today. This is a chronological collection spanning 1977-2007. The elegant [...] As much as I loved some of McKillip’s early books, I think I’ve aged out of her target audience. This book seemed put together from bits and pieces of past books, with many cookie-cutter characters and an emphasis on the young adults falling in love and pairing off at the end – heterosexually, of course. The [...] The Wild Wood is part of the same series of books based on Brian Froud’s illustrations as Something Rich and Strange. Charles de Lint is a well-known fantasy author, but the writing in this book is distractingly amateurish, with overly detailed descriptions of people’s clothes and exact measurements of snowfall, along with cardboard characterizations. For example, [...] Some 30 years ago, I picked up an unassuming paperback copy of Patricia McKillip’s “The Riddle-Master of Hed” at a library book sale. When I finished it, I held the closed book in my hands, paused, then turned to the first page to begin again. I’ve been a fan of that series, and of [...] Subtitle: Yet Another Troll-Fighting 11-Year-Old Orthodox Jewish Girl Recommended by: Barry Deutsch’s Alas, A Blog A graphic novel set in an Orthodox Jewish town called Hereville, in a blended family with many girls and one little brother. The facial expressions and other details in the drawings are captivating – I read the book twice and noticed a [...] I received this book, originally published in 1935, with a childhood gift of six classic Young Adult novels. I’ve carried the set from home to home ever since, but hadn’t reread any of the books in many years. Before I send the set off to my niece and nephew, I decided to reread “National [...] Recommended by: Tess Alfonsin A hard-edged book for teens that takes on multiple tough issues: Children’s cruelty to each other for being fat or disfigured While I applaud the author’s courage in addressing all these important issues, I think the book would have [...] This story of young Bod Owens growing up in a graveyard sparkles with inviting details and action on every page, drawing me into reading it while I was supposed to be doing other things. I enjoyed the gradual revelations about his caretakers, and the sturdy, matter-of-fact ethics that Bod learns from them. Like any good fairy [...] Recommended by: Marissa Lingen Narrated by oddly mature sixteen year old Leila (“Lee-la”) Abranel, this coming-of-age novel shows her both grappling with her much older sister’s suicide, and embarking on her second romantic relationship. The story is absorbing, but harrowing events and difficult emotions are described so quietly that the characters seem flat and distant. My favorite theme [...] |
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