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Flunking Sainthood
For Fans of Children’s Fantasy: “The Flint Heart”
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Jana Riess
Do you have a 4th-7th grader who enjoys fantasy fiction? For fun this month I listened to The Flint Heart, a middle-grade fantasy novel by Katherine Paterson (Bridge to Terabithia) and her husband John. They “freely adapted” this from an out-of-print 1910 novel by Eden Philpotts (who, as it turns out, was a guy —…
15 Holiday Reading Suggestions
By
Jana Riess
Last week at a book conference, I attended an intimate dinner to celebrate the forthcoming publication of my friend Lauren Winner’s memoir Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis. At the table, we all introduced ourselves by telling about some of the best things we had read this year. Since everyone there was either a publisher,…
Jacob Black, Pedophile?
By
Jana Riess
With the Breaking Dawn movie coming out in a couple of weeks, hundreds of thousands of Twi-hards will be revisiting Part 1 of the conclusion to Stephenie Meyer’s saga of romance and the undead boy next door. Most of them will be focusing on The Wedding and The Honeymoon — how will the film version…
YA Fiction Review: “Wicked Lovely”
By
Jana Riess
Our summer of frothy fiction continues with Wicked Lovely, the first in a YA series about faeries and the high school girls who . . . don’t quite love them. The trivia: Grade: B+ Age group: Suitable for 14 and up Other books I’ve read by this author: None How I found the book: The…
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