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Let’s play a game!  Inspired by Book Riot‘s “We Didn’t Start the Pale Fire: Books Summarized By 80s Song Titles,” I thought I’d make my own list of book-summing song titles – drawn from the 90s, since that’s the decade that represents my childhood.  And the books will be those previously reviewed here at Postcards, specifically the ones on […]

Let’s do something different today.  I do occasionally like to talk about non-book-related things here, so… The other day, as I was listening to “Drive,” by Incubus, I thought, Hey! I should do a post about some of the songs I associate with graduation — my high school graduation.  That’s totally YA-related, and relevant to current […]

This is a Finish ALL the Books! update.  You can find the complete list of FAtBC titles here, and the ones I’ve finished so far, here. ______________________ Back in my 2012 Favorites post, I mentioned a few books I was looking forward to adding to this year’s Hall o’ Faves.  This is one of them: […]

Ever since I started the Nostalgic Review feature, I’ve been meaning to do a post on my favorite/most-clearly-remembered short stories from grade- and high-school English classes.  Remember those awesome lit textbooks you always wished you could keep after the semester or school year ended? (What? It wasn’t just me, right? Right?) And since a few […]

Another post for the From the Bowels of Obscurity Book Club (Hee! Ahem, *cough*, sorry, I promise to settle down now.  Really, I will.) . . . . . . . . In 7th grade, I went through a cat phase.  Since I couldn’t actually have one of my own (family members with allergies), I […]

Back in March, sj tweeted to me about this new informal club that Becoming Cliché was starting:  the From the Bowels of Obscurity Children’s Book Club [pause while we wait for our inner 12-year-olds to stop giggling at “bowels.”  Hee!] Y’all may remember some of my previous posts on nostalgic Juv/YA books (see the “nostalgia” […]

Inspired by Jean of Howling Frog Books, whose January posts focused on lesser-known children’s titles from (mostly) outside the U.S., I thought I’d share a few of the classic Lithuanian stories I grew up with. . . . . . . . . Meškiukas Rudnosiukas (Little Bear with the Brown Nose), by Vytė Nemunėlis This [...]

WARNING:  This post contains significant levels of nostalgic melodrama, tempered somewhat with retrospective sarcasm.  Also, possible spoilers for any of the books mentioned (see hover text).  Proceed with caution.  . . . . . . . . Ah, Sweet Valley.  It’s more than just a town; it’s a state of mind.  A mind filled with drama, and [...]

More or less in order of how obsessed I was with the fictional world and characters.  I listed only the series with recurring characters and indefinite (at the time I was reading them) length — i.e. as opposed to something like Goosebumps, which introduces a new story/set of characters in each book, or Harry Potter, which [...]

Two more for the End-of-the-World challenge:  Hester Velmans’ Isabel of the Whales and Welwyn Wilton Katz’s Whalesinger. Hester Velmans.  Isabel of the Whales.  New York:  Scholastic, 2005.  181 pages. Isabel is out-of-her-mind psyched for her school’s annual fifth-grade whale watch.  Her friends tease her about her whale “fetish” — her room is filled with stuffed [...]

A lizard in a blizzard Got a snowflake in his gizzard And nothing else much happened, I’m afraid. But lizard rhymed with blizzard And blizzard rhymed with gizzard And that, my dear, is why most poems are made.* Sixteen years ago, I was wandering through a random store with family and did a double-take in [...]

Questo è il mio lavoro ultimato (25cm x 17,5 cm on high quality Fabriano paper- 300g/m2)
This is my ultimate work


The 1st step of my artwork:



Step number two:



Now the 3th step:



A photo of my unfinished work, you can see my lovely watercolor set (russian watercolors) and my pc :)