Archive for June, 2010

The Looking Glass Wars

Alice in Wonderland is one of those books, at least for me, that was fun to read as a child, but then when I reread it as an adult, it had me wondering if Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) wasn’t a but touched. In The Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor takes this classic children’s tale [...]

June 24, 2010 Posted in: fantasy, fiction, retold fairy tale, Young Adult No Comments

The Heir Series

My brother recommended these books to me, so I suppose that he should really be the one to write the review. He doesn’t feel all that confident in his writing (yet), so you’ll have to put up with my version, yet again. As far as fantasy for young adults goes, these books are some of [...]

June 3, 2010 Posted in: fantasy, fiction, Young Adult One Comment

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With a BA in English Education, an MA in English Literature, and over ten years of teaching experience at both the middle and high school level, it is an understatement to say that I've read a lot of books.

The book reviews I write are from the perspective of someone who has studied literature and literary criticism, who has taught young people how to read and interpret literature, and who has grown up in a Christian home with parents who put everything we saw and read into the context of our faith.
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