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Patterson, James: The Angel Experiment (2005)

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
By James Patterson
Adventure, Science Fiction, Teen
Time Warner, 2005
Paperback $6.99
978-0446617796
Since I work as a teen librarian, I often check out books of dubious entertainment value because I want to stay stay up-to-date with what’s popular in teen literature. This is not always the best starting point for reading a book: there’s so [...]

Jo Walton on Lois McMaster Bujold over at Tor.com

Swing by the official Tor blogs when you get a chance, because novelist Jo Walton has been writing a series of posts on Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan series. The post on Memory is especially worth reading. It really expresses a lot of my own feelings toward that book. An excerpt:
Memory (1998) is in my opinion [...]

One more Lion Hunters book!

Via Sherwood Smith, here’s an interview with YA fantasy writer Elizabeth E. Wein. She has a lot of interesting comments on her creative process and the inspiration for her books. Best of all, there’s an excerpt from the next book in her Lion Hunters series. I’ve raved about Wein’s series on this blog before, and [...]