October means mellowcreme pumpkins, finding five bucks in the pocket of last year’s coat (and spending it on more mellowcreme pumpkins), and BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS! From the first fantasy YA of a favorite author to a Gilded Age thriller to retellings of “The Wild Swans” and the Orpheus myth, here are 20 of the month’s most exciting […]
If your internet happens to break today under the sheer weight of new-book awesomeness, consider it the perfect excuse to take a break from the outside world and get to reading. Today marks the birth of Rainbow Rowell’s glorious first fantasy YA, a lush Thousand and One Nights retelling from E.K. Johnston, Stephenie Meyer’s gender-bent Twilight […]
They say well-behaved women seldom make history. (Well, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said that, to be precise.) An addendum to that bit of wisdom: well-behaved women seldom make the pages of historical fiction, either, especially in YA, where heroines tend to have a little more spunk, a little more independence of spirit, and a lot more […]