Lizzie Skurnick's Blog, page 8
September 14, 2009
No, YOU shush–I'm talking with Nancy Pearl
I am a little more excited than is strictly meet to announce I AM A SEPTEMBER PICK OF NANCY PEARL!
Here's the whole review:
Li zzie Skurnick has a much-read blog called Old Hag, but Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading is actually based on her column Fine Lines from Jezebel.com. And reading Shelf Discovery is akin to spending time with an old friend talking about best beloved books from the past. Skurnick, with occasional contributions by Meg Cabot, Laura Lippman, Cecily...
Having restrained myself from posting on 'Ice Castles' for two months, I now….
…must tell you I had an incredible time being interviewed by reproductive health advocate Amanda Marcotte, especially once we mutually confirmed that, yes, once the girls of popular culture were allowed to have sex and it wasn't a big deal. Witness Robby Denson and Lynn Holly Johnson, who ALREADY had an affair with an older sportscaster, go off to do it, unmolested. This will not happen in the Taylor Firth remake.
You think Ice Castles has nothing to do with reproductive health. Ice Castles
Babbling Books
I have been very slow and slothlike in updating the blog, and for this I blame a trip to Cape Cod, way too much country daintzing at my friend's wedding and lots and lots expensive jar tuna with cornichons. HOWEVER. First of all, you can see that my events page has been updated with stuff coming up in ENGLEWOOD, NJ, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, and MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. It will soon be updated with events in CHICAGO, ILLINOIS and NEW ORLEANS, ON THE BAYOU.
I also want to draw your attention to this r...
Boswell Books Company
Date: Tuesday, September 29th
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Boswell Books Company
Location: 2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI
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Baltimore Book Festival
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009
Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Place: CityLit Stage at Baltimore Book Festival
Location: Washington Monument, Eastside Circle, Baltimore, MD
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Englewood Public Library
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 7:30pm
Place: Englewood Public Library
Address: 31 Engle Street, Englewood, NJ
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September 12, 2009
Signing, Squam Art Workshop & Fair
Date: Saturday, September 19
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Rockywold-Deephaven Camps
Location: 18 Bacon Road, Holderness, NH
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September 4, 2009
More Tabled…
Upcoming event at Milwaukee's Boswell books 9/29 (click image for info)....
AND next to my friend Amy's book at Portland's Powells!
Next to Amy Goldwasser's "Red" -- even colors are harmonious.
August 27, 2009
Clearing something up
Skurnick's essays on young adult novels fill you with a deep longing for a time when your biggest concern was that pimple that refused to vacate your left cheek.
I am glad to be a trend. And I hope no one else mentions acne in reference to my book.
August 26, 2009
This is where I learned the word "pudenda"
….although I did not discuss THIS PARTICULAR ASPECT OF THE BUSINESS on NPR.
HERE'S my piece on Jaws on Talk of the Nation!!!!!!!!!!
Actually truly the best book ever.
Please recommend it. We're going to need a bigger book review.
