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Alicia Brown

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Category: teens

fun books, reading list, teens, YA

What I’m Reading: The Age of Miracles

Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles starts with a very simple premise: what if the rotation of the Earth slowed slightly so that the days and nights gradually became longer and longer? Walker tells the story through the eyes […]

March 7, 2016by Alicia Brown
reading, teens, YA

What I’m Reading: Paper Towns

As I take a brief hiatus from my Prydain recaps, reading John Green’s “Paper Towns” seemed like a no-brainer, given my love for “The Fault in Our Stars,” plus the recent media coverage of the movie adaptation that drew me […]

August 22, 2015by Alicia Brown
fun books, Great Books, novel, reading, teens, writing, YA

Why I Love YA

As those of you familiar with my blog already know, for someone with a master’s degree in English, I’ve read appallingly few of what the world considers important books, or Great Books. There are several reasons for this, but the […]

January 6, 2015by Alicia Brown
chick lit, fun books, humor, memoir, reading, self-help, teens, writing, YA

10 books that had an impact on me

These are not necessarily my “favorite” books, but 10 that have a special place in my life for various reasons. Presented roughly in the order in which I encountered them: The Outsiders. The book that made me believe I could […]

September 3, 2014by Alicia Brown
fun books, reading, teens, YA

What I’m Reading: Why We Broke Up

Daniel Handler’s “Why We Broke Up,” a birthday gift from my brother, took me two months to finish — not because I didn’t enjoy it, but because it’s so dense, with pages-long stream-of-consciousness passages consisting of carefully chosen phrases that […]

June 4, 2014by Alicia Brown
body image, news, teens, writing

Body image isn’t always about size

I’ve been reading some of the media coverage of “Lammily,” the crowdfunded alternative to Barbie that has “average proportions.” Despite her weird name (I think it sounds like mammary), a lot of people seem to like the idea of a […]

March 7, 2014by Alicia Brown

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