I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. … The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a short novel set in the period […]
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I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. … Her Body and Other Parties is a collection of short stories that centers around the horrific in a kind of fairy-tale way.
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I lost a major client (his sales died before the first of my books for him came out waaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!) and am slammed with other things at the moment, so I’m probably going to be a bit spotty until May. But I had to get this off my chest. … I have been struggling with the
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I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. … Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a war novel about the Iraq War. The characters are caught on a Fox News camera
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(Please note: This post was originally guest-posted on Shannon Lawrence’s The Warrior Muse blog for Women in Horror Month. I’m reposting it here so I don’t LOSE IT!!!) The sci-fi writer Zenna Henderson died in 1983, which was years before I was given the short story collection The Anything Box by my cousins, and devoured it with
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I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. … True Grit is a Western adventure story first published in 1968. Readers who are looking for a tale of the good guys
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I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. … The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure story from 1894. Unlike a lot of the fiction written in that time period and
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I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. Haunted is a collection of short horror stories tied together by one story that threads together the others. I do not recommend
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I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is another graphic novel. (I checked a stack of best-of graphic novels all out at once,
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I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. The Mockingbird graphic novels, #1 and #2, written by Chelsea Cain and illustrated by Kate Niemczyk, are a short series of superhero
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