I was a little hard on Secret Society Girl, so I’m happy to report that Under the Rose addresses both major defects I complained of in the first novel: less heavy-handed telegraphing of evolving plot points, no deus ex machina.
Amy Haskel’s breezy narrative voice is if anything even more assured, and the novel was […]
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Diana Peterfreund: Under the Rose: An Ivy League Novel
01 Dec 2007 · No Comments
Tags: u-title · young adult · mystery · p-author
Julie Powell: Julie & Julia
16 Dec 2006 · No Comments
I read this at least partly to challenge my own preconceptions about what kind of books I read. This is a non-cookbook about cooking — worse, French cooking, although I didn’t realize quite how meat-intensive it would actually be.
But it’s also a book about a crazy challenge — specifically, cooking every recipe in Julia […]
Tags: j-title · food · autobiography · p-author
Diana Peterfreund: Secret Society Girl
12 Oct 2006 · No Comments
I’ve been on such a major Scott Westerfeld kick for most of this year that not only am I reading everything of his I can get my hands on, I’m subscribed to the Westerblog and I read some of the other young adult books he talks up there, too. Here’s one:
Diana Peterfreund’s debut novel Secret […]
Tags: young adult · s-title · p-author