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Series Review: Alice in Wonderland
I was looking forward to reading Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (for us, bound in one volume) out to my son, because I remember having enjoyed them in...
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Book Reviews: 1984 and Brave New World
I’m going to review these books together, because they had been all mixed up in my memory. (Not anymore.) They are also both classics of dystopian fiction and are both books you might be required to...
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Book Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God
I have been out of commission since October, which is a little extreme. I attended that wonderful writing residency and finished a novel, but within weeks of returning I came down with something like...
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Book Reviews: Sixth Grade Medieval Historical Fiction
My son is in a home school co-op this year. I am the fifth and sixth grade writing teacher. I was given my curriculum, which came complete with a list of reading for the year. So I read the novels...
View ArticleMy Apologies for the Scathing Reviews
I have been looking for an agent, which is a blog post for another day. As part of this process, I have had to cozy up to agents with a remark or two in each query, indicating that I understood who...
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Book Review: The Song of Achilles
I have been reading Greek mythology lately. I have been teaching mythology to a small classroom of approximately-ninth-grade boys and I have, as a rabbit trail, plunged into book after book of Greek...
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Mid-Series Review: Harry Potter Minalima Pop-Up Edition
Image from Amazon.com I read the Harry Potter series almost every Halloween-time. Last year I started the series by reading and then reviewing the illustrated version. This year I am doing the same...
View ArticleIt Takes 500 Posts
After I posted the last blog entry (“Published!), WordPress notified me that it was the 500th blog post on The Starving Artist. Whew! So I did a little digging and found out this, as well: my first...
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Valentines Book Review: Pride and Prejudice
The genius of Jane Austen aside, I have to admit that this story held very few surprises for me. Thanks to movies, cultural allusions, and adaptations, I read this book feeling very much like I had...
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Series Review: The Raven Cycle
(This is like the longest book review I’ve ever written. If you want the short of it, you could just read the first and last sections.) Finding information about Maggie Stiefvater is not as...
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