Fluff.

Yes, I’m perfectly aware it’s been quite a while since I wrote on this space, and yes, I have been reading. Following the heaviness of “Blindness”, I decided to shift gears to a couple of easy reads. In honor of Sophie Kinsella’s “Mini-Shopaholic” and Francine Pascal’s “Sweet Valley Confidential: 10 Years After” (books which I [...]

Coming Soon: Sweet Valley Ten Years Later

Visit www.sweetvalleytenyearslater.com Between you and me, this is the best gift for us grade schoolers of the 1990s, who hid the books in their bags, for fear of getting confiscated, who smuggled the books in the library, and under the guise of reading larger books, devoured the adventures of Liz & Jess during free periods [...]

Have vampires invaded the world? Or just the young adult bookshelves?

I grew up at a time when Young Adult fiction was dominated by average, white kids with perfect lives in suburban neighborhoods whose dilemmas ranged from finding a name to their baby-sitters’ club or losing a pet hamster or making a fool out of themselves in front of the boy/girl they liked or not knowing [...]