Joss's World
If you were a new or casual viewer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy does a nice job of recapping Joss’s screenwriting career and his…
Pug Hill
Alison Pace, author of If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend, follows up that enjoyable book with another funny novel that may not have grabbed me as much as her debut,…
Summer Reading List
Books are not cheap these days, even with Amazon’s discounts. And with all the crappy, how-the-hell-did-that-get-published books out there, it’s easy to get burned and fear picking up the latest…
Read This
Rather than list every single book I’ve read since the last update, as there are many and not all were extremely interesting or worth my time, not to mention yours,…
You Could Do Better
In You Could Do Better by Stephanie Lehmann, Daphne, a curator at the NY Museum of Television, is worried that her reaction to her own wedding proposal — she wants…
The World of Thursday Next
Written by Hannah Jasper Fforde has created a whole new world with his Thursday Next series. The fourth book in the series comes out in Augsust 2004, but before you…
Another Quickie with Author Elizabeth Scott
Elizabeth Scott ‘s latest novel, Living Dead Girl, has been piling up accolades and controversy alike. It is the utterly compelling and heartbreaking story of Alice, who had been abducted…
A Quickie with Author Courtney Smith
Courtney Smith, author of the just-released Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time, and I go back to the days of when PopGurls…
Best Books of 2004
Written by Hannah Need to pick up something for the voracious reader in your life? Hannah reviews her favorites releases of 2004. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson Set in England,…
A Quickie with Author Jessica Conant-Park
Jessica Conant-Park has one of those jobs that could quite possibly drive someone else mad – she works with her mother. More specifically, she writes ChickLit mysteries with her mother.…
Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings
Written by Hannah Megan McCafferty’s excellent Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings are Young Adult novels. The heroine, Jessica Darling (McCafferty plays off her name very well), is in high school…
PG Interview: Nate Dimeo of “Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America”
I am an evangelist. Once I find something that I like, I completely devour it and all media around it, and then set on a path of converting as many…
You Need More YA
To say that I’ve been reading a lot of Young Adult novels lately is like saying, “Air? Yeah I take it in from time to time.” Most of the books…
Because Vogue Just Doesn’t Do it For Me
I wanna be an airforce ranger i wanna live a life of danger Okay, I don’t. Not really. But I want the ability to, if I wanted to. I don’t…
Bye-Bye, Magical Pants
A couple of weeks ago, on a Tuesday, I sat down and read Forever In Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood in one fell swoop, stopping only for food…
Big Batch of Books
Vol. 1 by Michelle Left Bank, by Kate Muir Left Bank is the tale of Madison, a Texan-born French movie star who goes out of her way to be…
Chick Lit (and More!)
On Beauty, by Zadie Smith I was really excited to read this – every review I read positively glowed and Ms. Smith is one of those authors that I’ve been…
Fourth Comings
Written by Hannah All right, let’s get the big spoiler out of the way first. Marcus and Jessica don’t end up together. And you know what? I’m glad. That’s right.…
The Reading Vacation
I went on vacation. I read. A lot.* *Not all of these books are newly published, but who says you only have to review/read new books? The Parker Grey Show,…
A Quickie with Author Elizabeth Scott
With one book out, Elizabeth Scott is poised to make a huge splash in the YA pool. Bloom was chosen as a Borders Original Voices selection and a Books-A-Million Teen…
A Quickie with Author Alison Pace
I picked up If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend on a whim last year when I was in the midst of a “I’m so over Chick Lit” snit, and loved…
History in the Making?
When magazines talk about “beach” or “summer” reading, they usually mean those lovely, disposable books that are like candy for your brain: Quick-paced, breezily-plotted novels that keep you wondering what…
YA Summer Reading List
Young adult fiction, just like Chick Lit (or even fan fiction for that matter), falls into two distinct categories. There are the novels we read because they’re well written with…
A Quickie With Author Sara Zarr
Sara Zarr knocked it out of the park with her first young adult novel, Story of a Girl, in 2007 – it got picked as a National Book Award Finalist.…
Race for Roswell High
We’re spazzes. We know this. Anyone that gets involved in a monthly race to be the first to possess the newest Roswell High installment has to be fully aware of…
Best Books of 2005
Written by Hannah We’d be hard-pressed to find someone who reads more than Hannah (although Michelle gives her a run for her money) so we tapped her yet again for…
Tom Robbins: Fucking Brilliant?
In high school there were a few authors that I absolutely adored and read over and over again: Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, L.M. Boston and Tom Robbins. I adored Tom…