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CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK REVIEWER: BEST OF CARTE BLANCHE

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<P>For more than 20 years, the author’s column for <EM>Booklist</EM> has delighted YA literature enthusiasts and bibliophiles in general with an engaging mixture of wit, insight, and good old fashioned publishing industry gossip. Spotlighting his unique perspective as both devoted book reviewer and self-proclaimed book addict, this <Q>Carte Blanche</Q> compilation offers readers the chance to trace the blossoming of YA lit into a bona fide phenomenon that continues to grow in popularity. In the columns gathered here, he explores reading, writing, and book collections and collecting; the past, present and future of YA lit; a multitude of genres, including historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, humor, and comics; and memories of notable figures in the world of publishing through tributes and memorials. These pieces remain as engaging and fun to read as when they first appeared.</P>

Confessions of a Book Reviewer

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
About the Author.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
Foreword.
Preface: In the Beginning: The Column That Started It All.
The Great Cavern of Old Time.
1: On Reading and Writing: Passions and Pleasures.
2: The Paradigms, They Are A-Shiftin&#x2019;.
3: Is Reading Selfish?.
4: My Romance &#x2026; with Reading.
5: A Difficult and Complex Art.
6: Read and Discuss.
7: Books, Books, Books: On Collections and Collecting.
8: The Accidental Book Collector.
9: Hercules Had It Easy.
10: Heap o&#x2019; Books.
11: Where I Get Those Ideas.
12: Boxes Everywhere.
13: My Environment.
14: That Was Then, This Is &#x2026; Young Adult Literature, Past, Present, and Future.
15: Happy Anniversary.
16: The First Golden Age.
17: Romance Redux.
18: A Near-Death Experience&#x2014;Young Adult Literature in the 1990s.
19: A New Golden Age&#x2014;YA Literature in the First Decade of the 2000s.
20: The Present and the Prospective.
21: The Dream Becomes a Reality.
22: A Modern Master.
23: With a Genre Here and a Genre There: Historical Fiction and Romance.
24: Back Home Again.
25: Nightmare.
26: Only a Great Man.
27: The Object(s) of Their Affection.
28: My Cicada Love Song.
29: Other Worlds: Fantasy and Science Fiction.
30: Cutting My Teeth on Fantasy.
31: What Rowling Has Wrought.
32: The Camelot Connection.
33: The Future Is Now.
34: The Possibility of the Impossible.
35: The Possibilities of the Impossible.
36: What&#x2019;s So Funny?: Wit, Humor, and the Comics.
37: Dissecting the Frog.
38: Crazy about Comics.
39: Just Ducky, Thanks.
40: Magic Man.
41: The Lives That Late They Led: Biography.
42: A Disease of English Literature.
43: So Many Lives, So Little Space.
44: Get a Life!.
45: Limning Lives.
46: A Writer&#x2019;s Life.
47: Tributes: Memories and Memorials.
48: My Churches.
49: A Clean, Well Lighted Sanctuary.
50: Among the Digitally Divided.
51: A Love Letter to Weetzie.
52: Descent into Limbo.
53: Love, Passion, and Lectures.
54: Remembering Myra and Mike.
55: Remembering Bill.
56: His First Novel.
57: Hog Heaven.
58: America&#x2019;s New Laureate.
Other Backmatter.
Conclusion: Some Stray Thoughts on Columns.
Index.

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