So who is ready for our May discussion of Lori Lansen’s The Girls: A Novel? I confess I only just received the book yesterday afternoon, and I doubt I’ll have it finished […]

For this final installment of our discussion of The Graveyard Book, I just thought I’d record some of my thoughts. Feel free to add your own in the comments. First, I realized […]

Maureen is our Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2011 Bookmark Challenge Super Model. Let’s talk about summer reading. I feel summer reading is very important to keep kids’ brains in motion. […]

Jen brought up an interesting question earlier – she questioned why we, the readers, are asked to accept some characters are good and some are bad with no supporting motives. And I […]

This is one of the things I wanted to post last Wednesday. See? I remembered! Harriet sends us this story from her local news in Norway about Ido the “lesehund” or “reading […]

Today, I thought we’d discuss the setting of the book.  Obviously, the setting is a big part of The Graveyard Book – it is there in the title!  To be more precise, […]