I've always been into realistic fiction. Fantasy used to bother me no matter what it was... until I read Twilight by Stephenie Meyers. Twilight is essentially your standard love story: Boy meets girl, girl and boy fall in love. But, of course, there's a twist. The boy has a secret. A secret that puts the girl's life in extreme danger at all times around him: He wants her blood. The boy is a vampire.
Honestly, if I had never read the book, and I read that description, I wouldn't be intrigued. Vampires? What a joke. But Meyers provides so much detail
Laurie Notaro
by Erin Steiner June 17th, 2008 | New ReleasesLaurie Notaro found fame some years ago when she published a collection of short memoir stories bound under the title The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club. Since then she has published several other memoir collections and one fiction novel. If you like humorous and conversational writing, you will adore Laurie Notaro.
My favorite collection of memoirs is titled We Thought You'd Be Prettier. In this book are tales of Notaro and her husband being attacked by baby spiders, dealing with the invasion of a field mouse and exercising sans corrective eyewear at the Y (and mistaking a group
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
by Erin Steiner June 3rd, 2008 | FictionSince the Sex and the City movie opens today, this would be a great opportunity to talk about the book it is based on (Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell), but I haven't actually read it. So, instead, I am going to talk about another series of books that has a (second) movie coming out soon: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares.
There are four books in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, and they tell the stories of the last four summers of childhood (or adolescence) of four best friends who have
