Geekly Reader: the Skulduggery Pleasant Series
The paradox of book reviews is that it’s hard to know whether you’d be interested in a book unless you know something about it first; but quite often a review tells you more than you’d want to know so...
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Review: Cory Doctorow’s For the Win Is a Lesson in Global Economics
My boys, 14 and 17, belong to a book club whose tastes run heavily towards science fiction. You could almost call it a mother-son book club, since at least one mom (the facilitator, who studied at RPI)...
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Dystopian YA Novels: It’s the End of the World as We Know It…
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. But everyone seems to agree that after the end of the world we’ll end up living in some sort of totalitarian regime that controls our thoughts,...
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Geek Becomes Hero in YA Novel The Other Normals: Q&A with Ned Vizzini
We all hated summer camp. So does Perry Eckert. In Ned Vizzini's book, The Other Normals, Perry -- a quintessential geeky teen -- is having a hard time focusing on school and, his parents think,...
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