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When is a old Gothic mansion not spooky?
Evie senses that immediately when her soldier father enrolls her in the prestigious, expensive, eerie Wyldcliff School for Young Ladies as he reports overseas. With her mother dead and her grandmother elderly and ill, this is his only option to care for his daughter. So Evie begins school after the school year has begun, and enters as a scholarship student, aka, a student needing financial help: two-fisted ostracizing. On her way to the school, which the taxi driver insists in evil and will not drive her all the way, she trudges into a Gothic-ly handsome, black-haired young man who is instantly smitten by her. She knows the women teachers are up to something at the school. The young man insists on nighttime meetings and he wanes from healthy to puny. The other scholarship students seems crazy. Evie discovers startling facts in old portraits and books and diaries. Danger creeps closer and closer as she uncovers powerful secrets. The book is hard to put down, and though British, American readers will relish it.
A sequel is coming in which Evie has to make a life or death choice.
ENDERS' Rating: ***
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Think warped and disturbing twist on the movie Ground Hog's Day, and you have a clue about before i fall. Samantha Kingston seems to have it all. She and her group of friends flaunt it to all, and give grief to a few. Yep, these are mean girls of privilege, looks, guys, and fashion. Sam is just a little nervous about her first time with her crush-worthy boyfriend that night, after the party at Kent's house. (Of course, sans parents). Her BFFs Lindsay, Elody and Ally come to the party with their own booze, and leave pretty well sloshed. Suddenly there is a flash of white, Lindsay veers the monster SUV into a tree, Sam dies.
Then, Sam awakes to relive the last day of her life. Seven chances. Seven days. What will she do with them?
ENDERS' Rating: Like Jay Asher says, a page turner!
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Brava to BF! In her quest to delve into romantic stories involving dark sides she has concocted a deliciously wicked story with Jekel Loves Hyde. The story is gripping from "I buried my father the day after my seventeenth birthday." That is in the prologue...do not gloss over it by looking for chapter one. Jill discovers that her father's death, her not so delightfully alliterative last name, captivating Tristin Hyde, and a science competition sporting a hefty scholarship are all going to complicate her already sorrowful life. Fans of Jessica Guide may mourn the lack of a sequel of that novel, but not for long. Fantaskey's sense of suspense, shared first person narrations, and episodic tension make a page-turning read that is sure to keep YA readers begging for more.
ENDERS" Rating: Better have mutliple copies in my library!
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Grace is mesmerized by the wolves living behind her home that she shares with her juvenile parents. Her friend Olivia has photographed all of them with their unique eyes, and Grace is drawn to the one with golden eyes who appears to be watching over her.
Bella and Edward has better watch their backs with this love story, with two promised sequels, Linger and Forever. There is plenty of romance, plenty of danger and plenty of intrigue. Shiver stands the chance of having a larger young men readership.
ENDERS' Rating: Ran home each day to finish it.
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Stella is not a foodie. Well, if you include gourmet food and preparations, as she is a fast food girl. The catch? Her father is a world famous chef, and her mother runs a unique restaurant, Open Kitchen, where guest chefs feed eager gourmands. Stella is tantalized by the new intern at the restaurant and she enjoys the work there just a bit more. But where does this put her ever-loyal boyfriend who has declared love to her? This fun novel gives us a slice of life of a teen involved in a Food TV world, and it is delectable.
ENDERS' Rating: Yummy read
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The dynamic trio that make Van Etten has created another entertaining saga of poor Mallory, inspiration and writer for her own soap opera "Likely Story." (Sorry I have only a photo of Levithan, but he is cute and he writes amazing books). Mallory's heartaches continue as her nemesis, Alisha, has joined forces with Alexis to bring her down. Mother-dearest is still prickly. And Mallory is not going to take any of it any more! She begins an offensive against those opposed to her with the climax the night of the Emmys when her soap and actors are nominated for four awards after just a few months of televising. WHAT IS SHE THINKING??? Join the fray and read the series. Just for fun. (FYI: There is a cover band in Southern California by the same name).
ENDERS' Rating: Soap fans will enjoy the inside jokes and drama
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This is probably the first novel where an object became a character for me. ROYAL, Victor's antique typewriter picked up at a Vietnam vet's garage sale, takes on a role in this delightful, delightful novel about writing, first love, caring for the earth, and PTSD. Victor and ROYAL go on a "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" to his personal Walden, the landlocked cabin that his uncle built in the Vermont woods up from his home. Victor is a unique sixteen-year-old boy. He is a budding writer who has read that writing naked produces the best writing; also the most embarrassment. He looks up as he writes, naked of course, in the cabin and see a girl his age smiling at him. Victor also dresses fast. Rose Anna and he begin their own secluded writer's workshop, he with ROYAL and she with an antique pen with a witch's formula for ink. She and you read his writing, and he reads hers, but with no comments. Well, Victor tries to make no comments. Want a love story, a quirky story, an earth story all rolled into one? This is it!
ENDERS Rating: I laughed out loud, and want to find a red newt.
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Ana Menéndez. The Last War. NY: Harper Collins, 2009.
ISBN: 9780061724763; ISBN10: 0061724769
Michael Sedano
Can this marriage last?
She is "Flash", so-called because on a photographic assignment years before, in Afghanistan, she incessantly fires off her flash unit when the other war photogs shoot available light. It's a faux pas she'll never live down, carrying the memory in the name all her friends call her, affectionately, "Flash."
He is Wonderboy. That's what she calls her husband. Everyone else calls him by name, Brando. The nickname, a fulsome compliment dating from early in his career, gets dragged out at parties and bull sessions. To her, "Wonderboy" fills her thoughts and rolls off her tongue with venomous resentment.
No, the marriage is dissolving before our eyes as Ana Menéndez narrates the story of an alienated wife, stuck in Istanbul while her reporter husband is in Iraq, embedded with U.S. forces, coming under fire, dealing with mindless deaths brought by the mindless invasion. A three year old, dropped by a sniper, for example.
Brando professes his desperate love for the wife in phone calls from the war. In the satellite phone, however, the wife discerns in the technology's echoes an emotional distance that feeds into her own distance and unhappiness. The deck is stacked against this couple.
It takes two to tango, and two to muck up a marriage. But in this case, Brando might be the innocent party. Unhappy and isolated by language and culture, Flash opens an anonymous letter from "Mira," informing Flash that Wonderboy is shacking up with a woman in Iraq, another correspondent. Flash proceeds to remember earlier suspicious behavior with other women, unexplained absences, odd coincidences. A violently arguing couple in the upstairs apartment feeds into her burdensome perception of marriage in general.
Into this ambiente of misery, Menéndez introduces a mysterious westerner, Alexandra, who dresses in black muslim garb and follows Flash through the city. Alexandra, Flash observes, appears to be always running from something. Despite Alexandra's mode of dress and apparent language skill, she doesn't really fit, any more than Flash fits in. There's a funny example of this when, just after Alexandra brags of her Turkish lessons and belittles Flash's failure to study the language, Alexandra talks to some men who cannot understand a word she says.
Deeply unhappy herself, Alexandra acts as Flash's confessor, tormentor, analyst, friend in need. It's the blind leading the blind, but Flash doesn't see that in the fog of migraine headaches and her own depression. Because Alexandra had been on the Afghanistan trip, she feeds Flash's paranoia at the same time Alexandra helps Flash seek out solid ground from which to take a sensible decision about either going home to Miami or getting that visa and trekking to Baghdad to be with her husband.
The novel can be a bit misleading--should we empathize with Flash?--until the reader gets more deeply into the story and discovers that Flash is really an unsympathetic woman, regardless of what Wonderboy may have done, or not. Menéndez does a great job without being heavy-handed of delving into the psychology of Flash's gradual descent into chaos. Menéndez illustrates the longevity of Flash's illness in alternating chapters between Istanbul and the Afghanistan trip where the photographer suffers Post Traumatic Shock Disorder after attending Taliban public executions, observing a translator shoot a wounded camel, crashing against the senselessness of male domination in Muslim culture. Are these causal factors in Flash's dissolution, or do such experiences hasten an already deteriorated emotional structure? Can we care?
I was attracted to the novel by the title of Menéndez' earlier work, including Loving Che and In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. I have come across precious few Chicana or Latina novels lately, so my hopes were high.
Here, the author escapes the confines of Cubana-oriented plots to put a "woman of color"--an expression Flash has difficulty dealing with--into a confusing, hostile foreign landscape that keeps a reader slightly on edge along with the characters. A lot of this edginess comes of the frequent appearance of Turkish phrases and spelling, untranslated. We understand these no better than Flash, and like her, we must move through the landscape to the next desperate moment. Readers will find The Last War an engaging and serious novel to recommend to friends and spur vigorous discussions about love, relationships, foreignness, and blame. That's a lot packed into a short--240 pages--book.
Mitos Y Realidades - Colorist Exhibition at East Los' ChimMaya
Pola Lopez and Isabel Martinez share a couple of characteristics. Both are colorist painters, sparkling conversationalists and photogenic. Their artistic styles, color aside, as represented in their ChimMaya show, separate them.
Martinez' canvases feature botanical subjects, lots of texture. Softly saturated, the matte finish mutes her colors, giving them the look of pastel work instead of acrylic and brush. The canvases could be easily be seen as damask wall coverings woven with intricately patterned abstractions. Their complexity requires lengthy interaction to allow the imagery to penetrate one's emotions.
Lopez shows a pair of approaches. One favors figurative compositions peopled by unambiguous forms, and in the other familiar iconography like el arbol de vida decorated with milagro-like icons. She elects a high gloss finish that gathers all the available light so that her impressive canvases take over the tight spaces of ChimMaya's north gallery. A centerpiece triptych takes the form of such cultural icons as Ugly Betty placed into nichos familiar in the architecture of Lopez' native New Mexico. The grey background contains highly detailed decoration echoing Toledano steel or damascene work. A large portrait, part of a series, features a floral background that continues onto the skin of the figure, as if a tattoo, or the female figure were transparent. It's a complicated idea that requires the visitor to spend long minutes studying every element of the canvas (seen over Pola's left shoulder in the central image of the photo).
A few weeks ago I was privileged to attend the
"16 x 20," "Duality," and Frida shows at ChimMaya. This visit I made it a point to talk to the owners, Steven Acevedo and Daniel Gonzalez. Gracious hosts, they took time out from the frantic activity surrounding them to give me a tour of the art hanging throughout the store and gallery space. In the course of our conversation, Steven mentioned he heard La Bloga's Monday columnist, Daniel Olivas, has a new novel coming soon, and expressed interest in hosting a reading at ChimMaya when the book comes out. What a happy confluence of events. I get some photos and experience beautiful arte, Daniel gets a marketing contact from one of the hottest arts locales on the East Side of El Lay.
ChimMaya is an easy drive from anywhere in Southern California. South of the Pomona Freeway (60) near Atlantic on Beverly, at 5283 E Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, 90022
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In upcoming Fall events, La Bloga friend, author C.M. Mayo, promotes her novel,
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. Venues include Virginia's Fall for the Book Festival in September. In October she heads for Washington DC for the Historical Society of Washington DC, and in November, The Texas Book Festival. Find details both on the novel and the promotional events at Mayo's
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Mayo Trailer Project
"Madam Mayo" seeks links to author book trailers. She notes, " I'm interested in video 'trailers' for books as a genre and am preparing some more detailed notes for the blog, so if any of the writers reading La Bloga would like to send me the URL for their own trailers, I invite them to do so via my
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Reyna Grande - New Novel, Organizing Latino Book Fair, Panel
about to reach bookshelves near you. Publisher's Weekly gives it a starred review, promising active interest from booksellers.
La Bloga will be reviewing the work in an upcoming column. In the meantime, you can ask your local bookseller about plans to stock the novel for ready local accessibility.
Reyna is a chief organizer in Los Angeles of the upcoming Edward James Olmos and Latino Literacy Now sponsored
Latino Book Fair, Saturday and Sunday, October 10 and 11 on the campus of California State University Los Angeles. For the geographically challenged, this is not the Westwood campus of UCLA, it's the El Sereno Campus of CSULA.
With over 65 great Latina Latino authors, 24 panels, and 12 workshops in Spanish, a main stage and a children's stage, this festival is shaping up to be filled with excitement and insight. This is history in the making. The Latino Book Fair has been a recurring and stellar event for a dozen years across the Southwest. This one promises to be the best ever!
A week before the Latino Book Festival at CSULA, Reyna is chairing a fascinating-sounding panel at the
West Hollywood Book Fair. Titled "Chicas, Chicanas, & Latinas: Women in Action", the panel features authors Josefina Lopez, Mary Castillo, Margo Candela and Graciela Limon.
Here is wonderful afternoon news. Some of us older gente have a tough time enduring the late night routines of book release
events and author readings. Thank you indie bookseller and Pasadena Califas institution Vroman's Books!
Sat, 08/29/2009 - 3:00pm
Location: Vroman's Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, California 91101
Group event for
Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery - featuring: Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Linda Quinn, and S. Ramos O'Briant
A gripping anthology of short fiction by Latino authors that features an intriguing and unpredictable cast of sleuths, murderers and crime victims.
Hit List: The Best of Latino MysteryISBN-13: 9781558855434
Published: Arte Publico Press, 03/01/2009
There we have it, the ultimate Tuesday of August, the last Tuesday I can claim 63 years and 40 years of marriage. Imagine that, the Beatles wrote me a song that I've had to wait all this time to make meaningful. No Vera, no Chuck, no Dave. But altogether the way it is, a Tuesday like any other Tuesday, except You Are Here. Thank you for visiting La Bloga.
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This book, like Beautiful Americans, Sophomore Switch, and Vidalia in Paris presents a view of what a change in venue does for a teenager. Most involve summer school experiences.
Emily, a talented artist and member of the “in” (and boring) crowd at a typical suburban high school, is given an opportunity to attend an artist summer school in Philadelphia. I must admit that Philly is now a travel destination for me, as Vivian drew an attractive picture of the city. Emily is hesitant about going, doubting her artistic abilities, but realizes that her best friend is increasingly absorbed by a new romance. So she joins bizarre Fiona and other art types and traipses through the city’s art scene. And what about that student assistant???
ENDERS Rating: a good read
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…because even though I skipped last week, my Sunday Summary is really embarrassing. Meaning, I continue to start many books, and finish very, very few. I once had a professor who (twice!) sent me a long quote from Trotsky about how the problem with the young comrades is how they skipped from topic to topic instead of having the focus to really learn anything. That professor knew me better than people in positions of authority over me ought.
In my defense, my ongoing roommate search is taking way more time than I ever expected which kind of sucks, and also, I’ve been kind of obsessed with reading things related to my (new! improved!) MA thesis, which kind of really doesn’t suck at all, except it’s taken up my reading-for-fun-especially-about-teenagers-falling-in-and-out-of-love-with-each-other time. And come to think of it, the fact that I now read about unobserved heterogeneity distributions instead of cliques and monsters at bedtime may explain why I’ve been sleeping really poorly.
Anyway. Books finished and yes that is an inaccurate use of the plural:
Reading this week:
- SEXUALITY AND SOCIALISM by Sherry Wolf. I put this down before finishing it when I was dealing with some other things, but I’m very excited to get back into it. Especially because the last few chapters are on the stuff I know less about. I particularly want to get more into her critique of the turn to queer theory in the academy.
- I’ve been thinking about going on a mystery kick. Lenore’s been reviewing some promising books I want to read, but I believe I’ll start with China Mieville’s new detective novel, CITY & CITY. It’s exceedingly rare that I shell out for a new hardcover, as I did with this one at a book fair last month (damn you for placing it by the register!), so I’ll feel lame if I don’t read it while it’s still new.
- I’m also thinking about going on an LGBT young adult reading kick, because it’s been a while since I’ve read much of this lit (not in any large quantity since I was in high school, when there was a lot less of it). This was inspired by reading in the NY Times Book Review today about the promisingly-titled THE VAST FIELDS OF ORDINARY, which is so new that I’m going to try to get my hands on a free copy for review (in a political periodical), which means I won’t be reading it this week. So: LGBT teen/kid book suggestions welcome!
- My boyfriend went to the American Library Association conference (he was exhibiting for Haymarket Books) and brought me back some freebies. They’re short enough that I can review them this week, so I’m keeping them a surprise…
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I have found a wonderful young woman character in Arden Vogel whose quest to do the things that must be done, as her father instructed, is fulfilled in High Dive. Arden high dives into impulsiveness by aborting her trip to Germany, dropping into Paris with three Texan co-eds she met on the flight to Europe. Katie, the organizer, reserved a hostel at a great price for the Texans. With no room at the inn, Arden is reduced to paying an exorbitant price, in cash, for a sleazy room in a dive hotel. I worried that the foursome were going to crash and burn any second, but they successfully made it to Florence where the girls had reservations and a curfew in a convent. Arden's rapture of the statue of David was priceless, and her comments about the beauty in Florence was great for anyone planning/hoping for a visit there.
The crash and burn happened when Lola, one of the Texans, ran into two guys from home. After sneaking them into the convent and a disgusting night with two drunk guys in her room, Arden packs up and leaves for her original destination: the family vacation home in Sardinia. With her father dead and her mother on duty in Iraq, Arden has to do what has to be done, and dives into preparing the home to sell. Wonderful events interlace the heartache of leaving her childhood memories.
Each of the four girls brought great life to the story. The wrapping of Arden's childhood memories around her current grief and anxieties show how bitter herbs are mellowed by the sweet. We need more Ardens! Write more!
ENDERS Rating: Refreshing, great characters, amazing story!
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I am happy to report that Cyn (who owns the award-winning author site Cynsations) agreed to let me interview her to go along with the posting of her new book, ETERNAL, on my site under “Good Books to Share.”
I enjoyed reading ETERNAL. The pace is swift, and the set-up interesting from the get-go. Miranda, the teenage heroine, has a guardian angel. He messes up and she is turned into a vampire. Now her angel has to make amends. But is he committing the ultimate no-no for guardian angels? Is he falling in love with her? ETERNAL kept me turning the pages through a single sitting. For anyone who likes a good love story, as well as for fans of vampire tales.
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How old were you when you first started seriously writing?
I guess it depends on what you call “serious.” By fourth grade, I was writing poems in my bedroom more evenings than not. I even “bound” them in a homemade book with the help of my mom. By junior high, I was editor of the school paper-a position I had again in high school. By my sophomore year of college, I was spending my summers working in newsrooms. By my third year of law school, I was teaching legal writing. At 28, I quit my “day job” to write fiction for young people.
How many rejections did you get before you got your first acceptance?
I honestly don’t know, but with regard to writing for young readers, my apprenticeship was about two-and-a-half years before my first sale.
How do you make up names for your characters?
With JINGLE DANCER (Morrow, 2000), most of the names are family names. The one exception is “Jenna,” which I simply thought sounded musical with Jenna. Quincie P. Morris in TANTALIZE (Candlewick, 2007) is named after Quincey P. Morris in Abraham Stoker’s classic novel Dracula (1897). But beyond that, I often look for variety in terms of syllables, vowel and consonant sounds, first letters, etc. or meanings. The name “Miranda” from ETERNAL (Candlewick, 2009) means “miracle.”
When you write do you like quiet, music, or lots of activity around you?
Increasingly, I prefer sort of neutral music-no lyrics, which I generally tune out. It works like “white noise.”
What’s the earliest childhood memory you can think back to? Does it appear in any of your writing?
I remember burning the silver plate off a gold spoon with a candle flame. I think everyone else was eating pie in the kitchen. And no, not so far.
What age child do you have in your head? Is there more than one child there?
It’s very crowded-I have a four, ten, fourteen, seventeen, and a nineteen-year-old.
Do you have any regrets about writing for young readers?
Nope.
What do you have hidden in a dresser drawer? (We won’t tell, will we, everyone?)
Nothing too interesting, I’m afraid. My iPod and the key to my treadmill.
What do your favorite pair of socks look like?
They feature tiny Texas flags.
Given that you won’t sunburn, and you have lots of water . . . would you rather walk through Death Valley or Mall of America? Why?
Death Valley-scenery and peacefulness.
If you woke up in the morning and found someone’s shoes in your refrigerator, what would you think?
That the cats were growing more sophisticated by the hour.
Have you ever been abducted by aliens? If so, did they wear socks? What did they have hidden in their zormorpholater? And did they tell you the titles of any of their favorite books?
No aliens, faeries perhaps.
Will you name a character in your next book after me?
Maybe, but I can’t promise he/she will be a good guy.
Finally, let’s end up looking toward the future. What’s up next for you? Anything you want to tell us about?
I just finished (I hope) text revisions on the graphic novel adaptation of TANTALIZE, which will be told from the point of view of Kieren, the werewolf hero. I’m also jazzed about the short stories I have coming out this year. “The Wrath of Dawn,” co-authored by Greg Leitich Smith will appear in GEEKTASTIC: Stories from the Nerd Herd edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci (Little, Brown, 2009) and “Cat Calls” will appear in SIDESHOW: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists, and Other Matters Odd and Magic, edited by Deborah Noyes (Candlewick, 2009).
Thanks, Cyn!
Now to all of you . . . go forth, and read!
Ciao!
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I am booked to visit Edison Charter Academy the end of May, and in preparation for the event there is some delicious fundraising happening in the streets of San Francisco. Just take a look!
Like all good love stories, this one started at the library too. It began when a little blond boy picked up my book, Little Night, at the Glen Park branch, and he decided he wanted to meet me.
Ok, we already met at a bookstore over Christmas; we shook hands, high-fived, and played with my Mexican balero toy.
But now I am coming to his school, and he and his siblings are working on earnest to bring me meet their friends. I can’t wait!
In the mean time
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I-Love-School page (teacher #62-67224)
I am swept off my feet with these kids and their community!
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Told By: Kathy Henderson
Illustrator: Jane Ray
Published: 2006 Candlewick Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0763627828 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
This warmly worded and intricately illustrated epic enchants our daughters with its exotic beauty and its underlying themes of kindness and generosity, in spite of its war and gore and shark-toothed, eagle-taloned Anzu birds.
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I havent' seen this yet. Would like to read.