Posts about reading

Thanks to audiobooks, I read 144 books in 2016. (If you look at that list, some are still in progress—the problem with relying on the[…]

I often discuss diverse books with people, especially white people, who need the “101”—parents and other people who love children who want to give them[…]

Columbus Day is a complicated holiday—after all, we really shouldn’t be honoring a man who introduced the slave trade to the Americas for “discovering” the[…]

On Facebook today, I’ve started a poll that anyone is welcome to answer. Let me know: do you prefer e-books to print books or vice[…]

I had such a great time talking to everyone at SCBWI Winter Conference this weekend and teaching the multicultural books breakout. In one of my[…]

Given that today is Martin Luther King Day, and that we’re still dealing with book banning based on race even today, I’d like to make[…]

More and more teens are getting e-readers in the last year or so. There was a big wave of e-reader purchases for them at Christmas[…]

I have to admit, I really hate villain POVs. There are so few villains that have any redeemable qualities, and especially starting a book out[…]

I’m currently splitting my time between two favorite authors’ newest books: James Dashner’s The Death Cure and Tamora Pierce’s Mastiff. I’m a HUGE Tamora Pierce[…]

I’m up to my gleezers, as Galaxy Games alien M’Frozza would say, in printer proofs for Fall books. I’ve been working on a post to[…]