Kim Harrison’s new young adult supernatural fantasy, Once Dead, Twice Shy, will be released at the end of the this month. Harrison is the author of the New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series featuring witch and private detective, Rachel Morgan. Once Dead, Twice Shy marks her first full-length novel geraed toward the young adult audience, though the prequel [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 19, 2009
Review: Whole Foods – New Chicago Flagship Store
Whole Foods is opening a new flagship grocery store in Chicago, IL on May 20, and I was invited to preview some of the samplings from their wide array of restaurants that will be located inside the store. At this pre-opening “dress rehearsal”, my family and I were given a store tour and encouraged to spend Saturday afternoon tasting [...]
May 14, 2009
Author Interview: Aprilynne Pike
Aprilynne Pike’s debut novel, Wings, is a paranormal fantasy featuring an entirely new twist on the mythological realm of faeries. I recently published a review of Wings, and I was delighted to have the opportunity to conduct an author interview with Aprilynne Pike, a fresh new voice in the young adult urban fantasy genre.
Damian: Your debut novel, Wings, [...]
May 7, 2009
DVD Review: Meet the Sight Words
Preschool Prep Company has created a series of educational DVDs that focuses on teaching sight words to young children. Sight words are commonly used short words in the English language that do not always follow traditional rules and are typically better learned through sight recognition rather than phonetically sounding them out. Examples of sight words are [...]
May 5, 2009
Book Review: Wings by Aprilynne Pike
Aprilynne Pike’s debut novel, Wings, hits the book store shelves this week. This young adult fantasy features a new twist on the traditional faerie archetype that, to my knowledge, has never before been written about. Pike’s unique interpretation of faeries strikes an intriguing balance between magic and realism and is likely to capture the imagination of readers.
The story unfolds [...]
May 3, 2009
Wings by Aprilynne Pike
I finished reading my advance review copy of Wings by Aprilynne Pike a couple of weeks ago, while I was in California. I enjoyed this young adult fantasy novel that Twilight author Stephenie Meyer blurbed as “a remarkable debut,” and under normal circumstances, I would have rushed straight to the computer to write my review. However, things have been a bit crazy [...]
