We’ve devoted a great deal of time and energy thinking about this year’s Nebula Awards, but even after reading all six of the best novel nominees and handicapping them based on a combination of merit, voting trends, and gut feeling, we still managed to walk away from Saturday’s awards presentation surprised.
At the end of October each year, 17-year-old Cara’s family becomes inexplicably accident prone. It’s been that way for years, with many of these family accidents turning deadly.
Today Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You the Sun became 2015’s Printz Award winner. Nelson’s gorgeous sophomore novel is about twins Jude and Noah, once as close as could be. She’s a fearless surfer girl, he’s a passionate artist who sees in Technicolor—and is falling helplessly in love with the boy next door. But their mother’s sudden death, and the events […]
A genre that defies easy categorization, magical realism is often associated with the work of Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez (100 Years of Solitude) and Laura Esquivel (Like Water For Chocolate). In magical realism, mystical or fantastic events are rendered as everyday occurrences. The extraordinary and the ordinary are intertwined; inseparable. In recent years, […]
It’s April 1, which means that 1) your risk of sitting on a whoopie cushion is at an all-time high, and 2) spring is undeniably here! As the earth comes back to life, wake up your bookshelves with 5 great reads that take you to places you’ve never been, and times you’ll never see. From the […]