All posts by Superfast Reader

How Can I Be a Book I’ve Never Read?

Via Catch-22, I mean, Dewey: You’re Ulysses! by James Joyce Most people are convinced that you don’t make any sense, but compared to what else you could say, what you’re saying now makes tons of sense. What people do understand about you is your vulgarity, which has convinced people that you are at once brilliant and repugnant. Meanwhile you are content to wander around aimlessly, taking in the sights and sounds of the city. What you see is vast, almost limitless, and brings you additional…

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Keep Away from the Genre

Last night’s work read saw a celebrated author of so-called “literary fiction” attempting a murder mystery. Great characters, fabulous dialogue, smart ideas–terrible plot. Why? The writer doesn’t know the first thing about genre satisfaction. This happens from time to time. A “real writer” will decide to take on a genre, thinking that it must be easy otherwise there wouldn’t be so many of them. But what said “real writer” doesn’t understand is that true genre excellence comes out of love for what the genre has…

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Secrets, Lies, and Algebra (Do The Math) by Wendy Lichtman

Synopsis: 8th Grader Tess sees the world through algebra, but when her mother reveals her best friend might have murdered his wife, Tess can’t make anything add up! Review: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra is a great book for middle school readers. Lichtman intersperses mini-math lessons throughout, but she does it in such a way that it feels organic to the story and not message-y at all. Of course, any kid who’s determined to despise math will chuck the book across the room at the first…

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I Rock!

At least Bybee thinks so. And I think her blog rocks so this made my day. So, now the rules state that I have to nominate 5 blogs that rock. This is hard, because the litblog world also happens to be filled with great writers. But I shall try. I’ll start with my girls Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt at Good Girl Lit. Anne & May write Christian chick lit that’s fresh, funny, and not at all preachy. And their blog has a similarly quirky…

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Culling My TBR Stack

I picked up a slew of galleys at BEA, and finally managed to get them to a manageable size. I’m really having trouble deciding what to read next, because they’re all so wonderfully enticing. Plus, my friend Shari lent me a Dave Duncan fantasy series that I’m dying to dive into. But War and Peace still rules my evenings–crossed the 400 page mark last night with Pierre’s initiation into the Freemasons. Fun stuff! Last night’s second work read was the first in a new YA…

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What It’s All About

Taking a cue from Ian at Upper Fort Stewart, I thought I’d write a post rounding up the best of Reading is my Superpower, and describe some of the features on the site that you may not have noticed. I post every time I finish reading a book. I don’t post between books, so every post on Reading is my Superpower means I’ve read a book in its entirety. You can find my archive by clicking All the Books So Far in the sidebar. Each…

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