This literary quest.

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THE HARRY POTTER CONVOS WE NEED TO HAVE

“Why is it that anything popular becomes instantly polarizing and people feel the need to define themselves by whether they love said anything or reject it? In the midst of this last Harry Potter adoration flare-up, I’ve realized that while there has been endless discussion of the series, I haven’t heard people talk much about the reasons that truly make it great. And frankly, I would say these are worthwhile reasons for even the thirstiest of haterade drinkers to take a gander into Hogwarts.”

A genius defense of the series by Julia Gazdag at HelloGiggles.com. I highly recommend clicking this link and reading further!

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

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Idiot Boyfriend

Jimmy Fallon and Zooey Deschanel!

Philip Pullman: 'Why we must stand up to the book barbarians'

Scathing talk from 64-year-old Pullman – a teacher who only took up writing full-time when his Dark Materials trilogy began to attract millions of children and adults – who admits he is “apoplectic with rage” at the treatment of libraries in the current round of public-spending cuts. He is angered, above all, by the way more than 400 libraries around the country have been earmarked for closure.

Lev Grossman on Why Fantasy Isn’t Just for Kids

And what kind of novels do you write, the dinner guest asks. And I reply: Fantasy. And there it is — freeze-frame it! That little light in their eyes, that light of hopeful interest dies. I’ve seen it happen, all too often. I’m at a dinner party, and the person next to me asks me what I do, and I say I’m a novelist, and a little light of hopeful interest kindles in their eyes.

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)

ZOOEY DESCHANEL – ‘CRAZY’ (PATSY CLINE)

Zooey Deschanel & Ben Schwartz- Tonight You Belong to Me

(Source: hellogiggles.com)

Young Adult Fiction: Let Teens Choose

It’s hard to know how to respond to Meghan Cox Gurdon’s June 4, 2011 article chronicling the “darkness” of modern day YA fiction in the Wall Street Journal [and Ru Freeman’s Huffington Post support for it, on June 21]. I purposely waited a couple of weeks to let the early responders poke holes in her reasoning the way good educators and the writers of tough Young Adult fiction always have to respond to this kind of ill-thought-out and self-serving “reporting.”

fromhogwarts-withlove: precious human.

fromhogwarts-withlove:

precious human.

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