“It was too long,” my friend Jo protested of Inkheart. ”I am just so discouraged by the state of juvenile fiction these days!” I was only halfway through the book myself, and thought this rather a strong statement. Although Jo is the Ph.D. I’m not always ready to defer to her literary assessment. When Dd1 [...]
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Inkheart and other Juvenile Fiction
Posted in Fiction--Fantasy, Juvenile fiction, tagged 21 Balloons, City of Ember, Cornelia Funk, Inkheart, Jeanne Duprau, Juvenile fiction, Michael Buckley, Sisters Grimm, William Pene DuBois on July 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We’re All Entitled to an Opinion
Posted in Fiction--Christian, Fiction--Classics, Fiction--Fantasy, Fiction--Thrillers on April 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
People’s tastes in literature differ about as much as tastes in music. Take one DF (dear friend) for instance. When, I recommended Ted Dekker’s Circle Trilogy, Black, Red, and White, she just replied that she had tried to read it, but didn’t like it at all. “I think it was too fast paced for me…or maybe it’s just [...]
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