Tag: ponderables

July 14, 2011 by Betsy Bird

You Couldn’t Pay Me to Read That

Had a fun conversation with someone the other day that got me to thinking. We were discussing the fact that we both get sent a lot of children’s books to read. Some are solicited by their authors/editors/agents and others just arrive in boxes that come from publishers. A person can have a whole individualized set […]

May 11, 2011 by Betsy Bird

The Oz Quest Theory: Are Four Companions One Too Many?

I’ve had an idea bouncing around the old noggin recently and I wanted to try ricocheting it off your heads for a while to see where it leads. Recently I’ve been reading a fair number of fantasy and sci-fi (mostly sci-fi, curiously enough) quest novels that follow in the Wizard of Oz rather than Alice […]