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Haunting story about first love and being the ne..."haunted mansion" she doesn't stand a chance of fitting in. Ethan ...
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What teenager has not uttered the words “you ju...
But there is hope for the uninformed teen. And t..." while thrusting any mental_floss book in their ha...
The phrase and the books came into my life at ve...old girls. I felt inferior, unintelligent, and wel...
What or who is mental_floss you ask? I'll answ...
For the record: mental_floss magazine is an in...
To be honest, I was introduced to their book (no... one.
The magazine’s just as cool, and, dare I say it ...&N every week hoping to see the latest issue on the...
Now, the “show me” part of my suggestion: I’ve a..." That's my way of politely saying, "I don’t think you’re correct, so I’m going to chec..." Perhaps it’s because I do read a lot and retain a...
So, the next time your teen tries to prove a poi...
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After my mother read my post about Three C...n trouble for something you had already been told ...
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I recall with particular clarity one of my firs... I relive the chill to the marble entranceway, so ... The gateway to other worlds, especially, a few ye... Rudyard Kipling . We had television in those days, but it was black... As a writer of fiction I now try to create "extraordinary worlds" for my readers. As a child, opening any book reve... I had no idea then that several years later (we ... No idea my writing would one day be aimed at the ... No idea that the thrill of writing for younger re... I can't help but be awed by the random nature of... How that interest would fade for nearly ten years... I wrote for six hours a day for eight and a half ... I wrote twenty crime novels before attempting my ... It took my daughter to give me the idea to introd...writer I had admired for years before ever mee... But it all started with children's books. And I can only hope it will never end. Editor's Note: Ridley Pearson is the author of ...
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06-29-2009 07:42 AM
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I spent part of this afternoon listening to the A... As many readers of this and other blogs are alre..."post;" my boss at AOL asked me to come up with a name fo..."journal" (as blogs were still quaintly known then at AOL)...."maven" was in the air. I've said it before, and I'll say..."maven" means both "expert" and "freak." I definitely had the latter in mind for myself wh... I don't know if I'm an expert of any kind, let... But there's only one TheBookMaven on Twitter. Or..."tweeps") alerted me to the fact that some tweeple were tr..."Andrea Sharp." She is WEARING A PIRATE HAT! Is this coincidence? Or is this a challenge? Shi... Obviously, I'm not going to do anything at all. ... What do you think publishers and authors should ... (Also: Do you know Andrea Sharp? Who's her milli...
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07-20-2009 04:17 PM
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Albert, I just realized I never thanked you for the comp...
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07-16-2009 01:54 AM
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Take a look at our new blog, Letter Blocks , which focuses on parents who wish to foster the love of reading ...
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05-21-2009 01:08 PM
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I've been reading aloud to my son since long b... Maybe it's because of this constant daily readin... The books we both get a kick out of tend to be p... For a baby whose changing mat most closely resemb... At eight months old, language is still an ocean ...uld be living and breathing things, and that we sh... Editor's Note: Lauren Groff is the bestselling ... and Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories . ...
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07-02-2009 07:40 AM
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I talk to and interview authors all of the time. ... Buzz Aldrin was the second human being to set fo..."magnificent desolation." That's also the title he chose for his new autob... He endured many disappointments, setbacks, and bad... No wonder, then, that his new book for children ... Meeting Aldrin made me realize something that we... cars for a while. However, that disappointment do... Message Edited by Bethanne on 08-17-2009 0...
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I was a really, really bad reader, and it was em... The other kids in my classes always laughed and p... It was terrible. I loved looking at the pictures in my storybooks... This was in the 1950s and 1960s, and schools wer... Students were divided into rigid categories, basi... the time I had my own children. We were classified as "lazy" and "stupid." It was so bad in high school that my best friend..."special" classes. That meant we sat in a room with other students w..."smart" or "good" students. But, instead of helping us with whatever our prob... My main concern was racing out of that class as s..."special" kids. We all knew "special" really meant bad. I still don't know if I was a bad speller becaus... I wanted to win the cooking bake-off, not the spe... My dream was to be the perfect wife, so I wouldn'... I'm not sure how old I was when my learning disa...learned there were actually medical reasons for my... Suffice it to say it was much too late to improve... I had left school long ago. And, in a perfect example of irony, I fell in lov..."Spelling." My mother thought that was the funniest thing she... ‘Your name will be ‘Spelling,' and you're the worst speller,' she said... I didn't think it was so funny. Knowing that I wasn't just "dumb" changed my life. I had long ago given up trying to read anything "hard." That all changed. I learned how to compensate for my disabilities. I wished I could have learned sooner, but I final... I went back to all the books I missed, from " Dick and Jane " to " Nancy Drew ," from fairy tales to Archie comics. I had a lot of reading to discover. And then irony struck again. As I read more and more of my husband's scripts -...‘Beverly Hills 90210,' ‘Dynasty,' ‘Charlie's Angels,' ‘7th Heaven,' ‘Charmed,' ‘Melrose Place,' ‘Fantasy Island' and others - I realized how much I... "stories." I started reading storybooks. Then, I decided I'd like to write one. Now, it's Summer, 2009; and Candy Spelling, the ... That spells h-a-p-p-i-n-e-s-s in my book. Editor's Note: Candy Spelling is the author of ...
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