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owlectomyOMG. DILEMMA.
Four fantastic authors present their latest creations: CASSANDRA CLARE for _City of Glass_, the conclusion to her best-selling Mortal Instruments trilogy; BETH FANTSKEY for _Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side_, a tale of vampires; LISA McMANN for _Fade_, a sequel to _Wake_; and ELIZABETH SCOTT for her provocative new book _Living Dead Girl_. Each author will speak about or read from her new book, answer questions from the audience, and then sign copies. Ages 11 and up.
WHEN: Sunday, April 5 @ 1:00pm
WHERE: Books of Wonder
18 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212) 989-3270
Sherman Alexie talks with David Levithan (_Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist_) about his National Book Award-winning novel, a semi-autobiographical tale about a Native American boy living on the Spokane Indian reservation while attending an all-white school. Co-presented with Bank Street Bookstore.
WHEN: Sunday April 5 @ 1:00pm
WHERE: Symphony Space
Leonard Nimoy Thalia
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York, NY 10025-6990
Tel: 212.864.5400
ADMISSION: $18; Children $12; Members $12; Just Kidding Club $8
Now... I've never actually read a book by Cassandra Clare, Beth Fantskey, Lisa McMann, or Elizabeth Scott. Living Dead Girl, I'm probably not going to read even though I've heard it's fantastic, because there are limits to how dark I like my books. And that limit is located just slightly past Tender Morsels. And I keep meaning to go hear David Levithan, because my whole clever stalking-him plan isn't working out yet. I have seen Sherman Alexie, but he's a great speaker and I think I could very happily go hear him again.
Well, there's no bad choice here.
Four fantastic authors present their latest creations: CASSANDRA CLARE for _City of Glass_, the conclusion to her best-selling Mortal Instruments trilogy; BETH FANTSKEY for _Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side_, a tale of vampires; LISA McMANN for _Fade_, a sequel to _Wake_; and ELIZABETH SCOTT for her provocative new book _Living Dead Girl_. Each author will speak about or read from her new book, answer questions from the audience, and then sign copies. Ages 11 and up.
WHEN: Sunday, April 5 @ 1:00pm
WHERE: Books of Wonder
18 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212) 989-3270
Sherman Alexie talks with David Levithan (_Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist_) about his National Book Award-winning novel, a semi-autobiographical tale about a Native American boy living on the Spokane Indian reservation while attending an all-white school. Co-presented with Bank Street Bookstore.
WHEN: Sunday April 5 @ 1:00pm
WHERE: Symphony Space
Leonard Nimoy Thalia
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York, NY 10025-6990
Tel: 212.864.5400
ADMISSION: $18; Children $12; Members $12; Just Kidding Club $8
Now... I've never actually read a book by Cassandra Clare, Beth Fantskey, Lisa McMann, or Elizabeth Scott. Living Dead Girl, I'm probably not going to read even though I've heard it's fantastic, because there are limits to how dark I like my books. And that limit is located just slightly past Tender Morsels. And I keep meaning to go hear David Levithan, because my whole clever stalking-him plan isn't working out yet. I have seen Sherman Alexie, but he's a great speaker and I think I could very happily go hear him again.
Well, there's no bad choice here.
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4/4/09 11:17 (UTC)That, and the girl narrator has a voice that made me sort of want to kill her?
I loved the book, personally, and I thought it had some real insights about relationships (I totally would go back in time to send the book to my 16-year-old self), but I don't really see you liking it. I'd hesitate to recommend free verse narrative poetry to you, but if you're going to read one Levithan it should probably be The Realm of Possibility.
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4/4/09 15:03 (UTC)There's a poem in "The Realm of Possibility" called "Gospel," wherein a Christian girl reaches out to a goth boy, and it is tender and non-preachy in ways I wouldn't quite have expected just from that description. It's possible to read the whole thing on Amazon's Look Inside The Book, actually, if you search the book for 'Gospel'...