the white garden by stephanie barron Don't you just love this cover design? The famous White Garden of Sissinghurst in the Kent countryside occupying the silhouette of Virginia Woolf. On a lime background with the garden again but this time in muted white watermark. How could... Submitted: on 3rd Jan 2010 Tags: · design · The · Famous · This Time · Virginia WoolfEL Doctorow: 'I don't have a style, but the books do' The author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel and Homer and Langley talks to Sarah Crown On a quiet Harlem backstreet at the end of a row of stately brownstones is a grassed-over sliver of land, home to a handful of plane trees, a couple of flowertubs and a garden bench or two. A sign on the railings gives its name as the Collyer Brothers Park. It stands on the lot of what was once the home of Homer a... Submitted: on 23rd Jan 2010 Tags: · El · The · What · Author · Brothers · EL Doctorow · Homer · The Book of Daniel · The EndThe China Garden, by Liz Berry The China Garden, by Liz Berry (1996, Harper Collins, YA, 284pp), is a book that I would have utterly adored if I had read it as a teenager. I went looking for it after I read about it in one of the "What a Girl Wants" posts at Chasing Ray, where Melissa Wyatt said "For girls who are looking for more supernatural romance, I highly recommend The China Garden by Liz Berry. A strong female protagonis... Submitted: on 30th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · What · Where · Liz Berry · Melissa Wyatt · Romance · WhatReview: My Garden by Kevin Henkes My Garden By Kevin Henkes Greenwillow (HarperCollins) ISBN: 9780061715181 $17.99 Grades PreK-2 In Stores *Best New Books* Tone. It’s a tricky thing. If an author slips up in this area, a book can come across as confusing, or worse, condescending. Kevin Henkes knows tone well, and My Garden is the proof. It doesn’t scream. It doesn’t beg. It subtly pulls young readers in, Submitted: on 10th Mar 2010 Tags: · The · Up · Author · Isbn · Kevin Henkes · New Books · Readers · Review · UpThe Serial Garden: Review Haiku Magic-ridden sport to dip in and out of; too much for one sitting. The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories by Joan Aiken. Big Mouth House, 2008, 327 pages. Submitted: on 24th Feb 2010 Tags: · Magic · The · Family · House · Joan Aiken · Review · StoriesThe Goats-and-Garden Writing Program Daniyal Mueenuddin: "One of the problems for writers is that they live as writers, and that doesn't give them any material. It would be a good idea, if you wanted to start an M.F.A. program, to start one with goats and a garden." Submitted: on 4th Mar 2010 Tags: · The · Daniyal Mueenuddin · Wanted · Writers · WritingFirst Garden An Illustrated Garden Primer by C.Z. Guest This is a book that didn't quite live up to the expectations, for me. I got it through a swap site, thinking it looked like a good little gardening book. With a forward by Truman Capote (who was a friend of the author) and line drawings illustrating the pages by one Cecil Beaton. It's a friendly book, charming in its own way. It presents a simpl... Submitted: on 27th Feb 2010 Tags: · friendly · Presents · The · Up · Author · Presents · Swap · Truman CapoteIn the Garden of Iden, by Kage Baker, for Timeslip Tuesday I met Kage Baker, so to speak, this fall when I enjoyed her middle grade fantasy, Hotel Under the Sand, and looking around to see what else she wrote, I found one of her adult books, In the Garden of Iden (Harcourt Brace, 1997), courtesy of Leila at Bookshelves of Doom. Time travel, botany in Elizabethan England, romance, saving endangered species through the miracles of science--what was not to w... Submitted: on 19th Jan 2010 Tags: · hotel · Science · The · What · Fantasy · Romance · The · Travel · Tuesday · When · WroteAuthor collects debut award after 20-year wait for inspiration Raphael Selbourne had started to write a novel twice in 20 years and abandoned the endeavour both times because he had “nothing to write”. Submitted: on 4th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Author · Novel · Raphael Selbourne · WriteJohn P. Gach: Bibliophile "John P. Gach, a bibliophile and a nationally known bookseller who specialized in rare books devoted to the human sciences, died of a heart attack Dec. 20 at his Randallstown home. He was 63." Read this article.... Submitted: on 28th Dec 2009 Tags: · p · The · Died · Rare Books
