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Friday, 18 May 2012

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How Little Women Betrayed Its Women -- And Everyone Else

So I was in Barnes & Noble recently, shopping for a gift for a young relative. I was looking in the section of classic children’s books, whe...

The Disadvantage of Boy and Girl Fiction

Recently, urban fantasy author Allison Pang wrote a blog entry titled, “Did Buffy Destroy Urban Fantasy.” She makes the argument that before Buf...

When Good Books End Badly: Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry

I recently read Audrey Niffenegger's long-awaited second novel (after the 2003's bestseller The Time Traveler's Wife). Alt...

Interview of Meredith Zeitlin, Author of Freshman Year and Other Unnatural

How did you come up with the idea for Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disasters? Well, I wanted to write a book that was sort of a response to ...

J.R. Ward to Write Gay Romance Novel

Update, March 31: J.R. Ward announced in a signing today that her next full-length novel, to be released in 2013, will be about Qhuinn and Blay -- w...

Stacia Kane’s Downside Ghosts Series and the Damaged Heroine

A little over a year ago, I was revising a novel I had been working on. I really liked the story, but I worried that potential readers would hav...

An Ode to The Hunger Games

I’ve made no secret of my love for The Hunger Games series (like here, and here, and here). I remember reading the first book back in 2008, just...

Why I Love Kick-Ass Heroines

I love kick-ass heroines in books, the kind of women who are strong and independent and don’t take crap from anyone. The kinds of characters who...

Remembering A Wrinkle in Time

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of A Wrinkle in Time. I was 12 when I read it for the first time—about the same age as Wrinkl...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not Me: An Ode to Mrs. Dalloway

As someone who is constantly on the lookout for writers who reflect the complexity and depth of the female experience, I am almost ashamed to admit ...

The Downside of the Sexy Urban Fantasy Cover

My first leap into the world of adult urban fantasy was Patricia Briggs’ Moon Called, the first novel in the Mercy Thompson series. A kick-ass h...

Book Nook: The Ones Who Deserve Better

Normally, romantic relationships in books seem almost too good to be true, the couple so perfectly matched that it seems like destiny. But the other d...

Best Books of 2011

According to the list I maintained last year, in 2011 I read 260 books. (And I probably missed some in there somewhere.) This might sound ...

Fantasy is not “Boy Fiction”

A few days ago, CC2K’s admin extraordinaire Tony Lazlo linked to a New York Times review of the new Game of Thrones miniseries on HBO, based on the bo...

Holiday Book Shopping Guide

As our trusty Book Editor, Beth Woodward, finishes her Christmas shopping, let's revisit some of her book-buying recommendations for the readers in ...

Literary Comfort Food for Cold Winter Nights

I’ve been sick most of this week (so if this column is less comprehensible than usual, you can blame the drugs). During my illness I’ve been eat...

Dragons: The New Vampires?

With Breaking Dawn: Part 1 (based on Stephenie Meyer’s book series) now in theaters, and True Blood and The Vampire Diaries (both of which are also ba...

The NaNo Diaries: A Month of Writing Dangerously

In just a few short days, 2011's National Novel Writing Month will start. CC2K's Book Editor, Beth Woodward, intends to participate again, but g...

Waiting Impatiently for Carolyn Crane’s Head Rush

In March of last year, I read a book that captured my attention and my imagination. Mind Games, by debut author Carolyn Crane, resonated for me....

What Makes a Bad Book? (And What Makes Good Ones?)

I have been so busy of late, traveling and whatnot, that my recent updates have been…sporadic, to say the least. Bad Book Editor! But now that I hav...

The Problem With Flawed Heroines

In the wake of Amy Winehouse’s death, Stacey Jay—author of the urban fantasy novel Dead on the Delta—wrote a blog entry talking about how her protagon...

Fare-Thee-Well Borders Book Giveaway

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Borders’ closing and the ways I think the book industry is evolving. I said that I didn’t think books were going...

The Death of Borders and the Rebirth of Books

Last week, we learned that Borders bookstores would liquidate its assets and close all of its remaining 400 stores. Cue the hand-wringing and proclam...

Beth’s Top 10 of 2011 (So Far…)

Here we are, at the midpoint of 2011. I have read, according to my list, 164 books this year, including novellas and re-reads. I read fast, but man ...

Memoirs: The Reality TV of Literature

Few (if any) literary genres have experienced a surge in popularity over the past few years like the memoir has. And yet—and I mean no offense to any...