Stiefvater uses her signature style of captivating characters and complex plot in this novel about a Colorado family that can perform unusual miracles. Switching from dark scenes in fantastical forests to a love song to the desert, Stiefvater celebrates the miracles that sit within us all. Like the owls that line its pages, this novel …
It all started with Sara Crewe. Not even book (A Little Princess) Sara Crewe, but Shirley Temple-movie Sara Crewe in “The Little Princess” (1939). That was when I first fell in love with the idea of boarding school, even if I may not have thought of it in that way at the time. That’s not …
A gorgeous spring day, a recently relocated indie bookstore to explore and a favorite author on stage—my bookloving family was very lucky to have an unrelated agenda item on the calendar, putting us in Portland, May 2, for the inaugural Independent Bookstore Day, and we took advantage of the synchronicity. Coming up on 41 years next month, …
Ah, BEA. I could feel the gravitational pull of Javits from our hotel. For 3 whole days, Javits Convention Center in New York, New York, that angular, light-filled building, was packed with brilliant booksellers whose brains swim in letters and words, authors who make it all possible, and the wily publishers and publicists who bring …
