Spell Bound, by Rachel Hawkins

Warning: This review of Spell Bound , by Rachel Hawkins (Hyperion, 2012, YA 336 pages) is, perforce, a tad spoilery for the first two books...

The False Prince, by Jennifer Nielsen

I have just finished reading my favorite book of the year to date, the sort of finishing that involves desperate, gulpish page-turning, wit...

Paperquake, by Kathryn Reiss, for Timeslip Tuesday

Paperquake , by Kathryn Reiss (Harcourt, 1999, midde grade, 272 pages) Violet has always been the baby of her family, even though she's ...

Hex Hall, by Rachel Hawkins

When Hex Hall , by Rachel Hawkins, (Hyperion, 2011, YA, 352 pp) first came out, I, like many bloggers , read it with great enthusiasm. But ...

How my bloggiesta weekend went

In a word: fail. Not total fail, but still ever so clearly on the fail side of the scale, mainly because I lost yesterday to Science Olymp...

They made pages! A Bloggiesta mini-challenge update

I'm awfully pleased that my Page Making mini-challenge for Bloggiesta was helpful! It challenged participants to organize blog contact...

This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and sci fi from around the blogs

Here's what I found in my blog reading of interest to us fans of middle grade (ages 9-12, give or take) fantasy and science fiction. Cl...