This is just a quick post about something that’s been on my mind for a while. It’s sad that there are so many preconceived ideas about YA novels, ideas that show those who speak about them, very often haven’t read any. I’m writing for adults, children and Young Adults and in one of my writer’s […]
Publication date: 2015 Pages: 350 Word count: ? Ages: YA They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest. What a book! I finished it a while ago but I’m still stunned. Sometimes you read a book and the topic shocks you. Then you read a book […]
Publication date: 2014 Pages: 198 Word count: ? Ages: YA Last year I read my first Dana Reinhardt novel (The Summer I Learned to Fly) and liked it a great deal. The story was cute, the characters lovable but what I liked the most was the tone and the voice. I knew I would read another […]
Publication date: 1993 Pages: 180 Word count: 43,617 Ages: MG 4 – 8 I wanted to read Lois Lowry’s The Giver for ages. Not only because it was a Newbery Medal winner but because it has become one of the great MG classics and has even been made into a movie. The Giver was written at a […]
Publication date: 2015 Pages: 199 Word count: 40,777 Ages: MG 8 – 12 I’ve always been a huge fan of Alice Hoffman’s novels for adults but so far I’ve never read any of her books for children. Nightbird was the first. What a lovely, lovely book. I still pick it up and reread passages. I loved […]
Glad to see you back Caroline.
I hope that all will be OK for you.
Hi Brian, thanks. I’m better.
Hi, and welcome back!
Sending you good thoughts and many hugs.
P.S. I love the pic, it reminds me of Poe’s raven…I’m in a Gothic mood these days.
Thanks so much, Delia.
I took that picture last autumn but it reflects my mood. I’m a bit of a Goth anyway.
Good to see you back, Caroline. So sorry to hear you’ve been going through a difficult time. I hope you’re okay. All the best. Jacqui
Thanks, Jacqui. I’m much better. But it’s still sad and chaotic.
Welcome back but I’m sorry you’re going through a hard time at the moment. As you say reading may help. I hope it does.
Thanks, Caroline. Reading does help, at least it does now. At first it was not possible and Blunden was just too sad.
Welcome back, Caroline–I hope you’re feeling better soon.
Thanks, Richard, that’s kind of you. I hope so too.
Welcome back, Caroline. Sending positive energy your way.
That’s so kind of you, thanks, Jackie.
No need to tell what happened ever, if that’s how you feel. It’s just good to have you back.
Thanks, Lizzy, that’s nice of you.
Welcome back!
Thanks you, Judith.
Much love to you, xo
Thanks, Bellezza. It means something.
Welcome back
Thank you, Stu.
As numerous others have said before me, welcome back, Caroline. I’m sorry that you’ve been having a hard time, and hope that things rapidly improve for you. You impress me as someone who deserves more than to suffer.
Nice to see you back Caroline.
Thank you, Guy. Can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to.
You’re so nice, Victoria, thank you. I’m getting better.
Nice to have you back, Caroline. Hope you are feeling better and hope everyday is better than the previous one and you are feeling better with each day.
Thanks so much Vishy. It takes time but it’s getting better slowly.
Hi Caroline–so glad to see you back–even if it is only in a sort of abbreviated manner! I hope everything is okay with you or that you are beginning to feel better! I had to pass by the last book for the readalong, too. I knew I couldn’t manage a NF book on the war just now but I have it and may tackle it some other time. Hope you find something comforting to read that will help get your mind off life and give you a little distraction and relaxation! Take care!
Thanks, Danielle, that’s nice of you. Trench warfare was the last thing I wanted to and could read about. I’m reading Gail Carriger’s Changeless since I found Soulless last year such a hoot and it helps a bit.
But at first I wasn’t able to read at all.
Hope you back full strength soon. Difficulties only make us stronger in the end.
Thanks, mel. It’s true, I know but you know how it is – in the middle of thinsg we don’t feel that way.
It’s so good to see you back, but take all the time you need. Hugs, Carole
Thanks, Carole. I realized that blogging might actually be therapeutic. Not at first, of course.
Very true, Caroline.
Welcome back – hope you are well.
Thanks, leroy. I’m okish.
Welcome back and I hope everything gets better soon.
Thank you Emma, I hope so too.
I’m sorry you’re going through such a tough time. I hope you manage to find some suitable books to read; light and fluffy is defintely the way to go at the moment. I’m glad to see you back here. Take care, Caroline. xo
Thanks so much, Violet. It’s actually not that easy to find something light and fluffy that isn’t too silly. I got one of Tove Janson’s Mummins books.
So sorry that you’ve been going through a tough time. I hope things are looking up for you now.
Thank you, Anna. I’m doing much better.
I am glad that you are again co-hosting the GLM this year. I sincerely wish that it means that things are picking up. Take care.
Thanks, need. I’m better, yes.