Tag: review
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Julie’s Top Reads for 2015
In alphabetical order: THE ARCHIVED THE CHOCOLATE WAR THE EVOLUTION OF MARA DYER JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL THE NIGHT CIRCUS THE RAVEN BOYS THE SCHWA WAS HERE THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER Breakdown by age group: Middle Grade: 1 Young Adult: 5 Adult: 2 Awards: Most Enchanting – THIS IS SO HARD […]
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On Stephen King’s 11/22/63
I remember reading somewhere (probably in his memoir On Writing) that Stephen King subjects early drafts of his manuscripts to a little test: he’ll put a copy in the hands of his wife, a cherished Ideal Reader, and monitor her reactions as she reads. If there’s a passage he means to be funny, and hopes […]
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