Monday, June 13, 2011

Summer Reading: 15 Authors Make Book Recommendations

From the June 10, 2011 issue of The Globe and Mail

"Books I Must Read This Summer"

Fifteen writers choose the work they can’t wait to crack open, preferably on a sun-drenched porch or dock, with a cool quaff at hand.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-book-i-must-read-this-summer/article2055874/

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Say Bye to Vampires

Check out the article

"Appetite for destruction: Say bye to vampires and hello to Hell-on-Earth in Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games Trilogy"

from the June 8, 2011 issue of The Globe and Mail

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/06/08/appetite-for-destruction-say-bye-to-vampires-and-hello-to-hell-on-earth/






Earth may not have ended this past May 21, as a small-but-confident group of religious zealots had hoped, but our planet fares much worse in a new crop of teen fiction: Thanks to Suzanne Collins’ mega-selling Hunger Games trilogy, dystopian and post-apocalyptic kid lit has replaced vampires as the biggest thing in YA publishing