12.29.2010

FOUR: Birthday Haiku


Remember when we
thought you couldn't talk?
You kinda got over that.


Happy birthday to my Boy!

12.27.2010

Smile: Review Haiku


This worst-case dental
scenario gives Raina
time and room to grow.


Smile by Raina Telgemeier. Amulet, 2010, 192 pages.

12.22.2010

Doodlebug: Review Haiku


Self-empowered kid
fights the petty injustices
of middle school.


Doodlebug: A Novel in Doodles by Karen Romano Young. Feiwel & Friends, 2010, 112 pages.

12.20.2010

The Charming Quirks of Others: Review Haiku


Wealthy, busybody
philosopher finds new
moral quandaries.


The Charming Quirks of Others: An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith. Pantheon, 2010, 272 pages.

12.17.2010

Forge: Review Haiku


Queen Laurie pens
another gem. (Now it doesn't
feel so cold outside.)


Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson. Atheneum, 2010, 304 pages.

12.15.2010

In the Company of Others: Review Haiku


Father Tim stars in
Irish soap opera of love,
lust, fam'ly secrets.


In the Company of Others: A Father Tim Novel by Jan Karon. Viking, 2010, 416 pages.

12.13.2010

At Home: Review Haiku


Exhaustive, exhausting
minutiae of human
domesticity.


At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson. Doubleday, 2010, 497 pages.

12.10.2010

Simple Times: Review Haiku


Macrame for the
clinically insane. (Kidding;
there's no macrame.)


Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People by Amy Sedaris. Hachette, 2010, 304 pages.

12.08.2010

Dante's Divine Comedy: Review Haiku


The Cliffs Notes of AWESOME:
one hundred cantos in
black-and-white brilliance.


Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, adapted by Seymour Chwast. Bloomsbury, 2010, 127 pages.

12.06.2010

12.03.2010

Into the Gauntlet: Review Haiku


Ten books and thirty-
nine clues later, and the answer
is . . . looooove. Okay.


Into the Gauntlet (The 39 Clues, #10) by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Scholastic, 2010, 176 pages.

12.01.2010

Ivy + Bean: What's the Big Idea? Review Haiku


Not a polemic --
just a kid's-eye view of
climate change. Lurve these two.


Ivy + Bean: What's the Big Idea? by Annie Barrows, illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Chronicle, 2010, 128 pages.