Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for September 11, 2013.
YA Wednesday: Nancy Farmer on "The Lord of Opium"
It's been 11 years since Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion was released, a book so well loved and admired that it won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and was both a Printz Honor and Newbery Honor title. After all this time, I was amazed when I heard that this year she would publish the sequel and I crossed my fingers that it would live up to the …
My Dark Love Letter to Iceland: Hannah Kent on "Burial Rites"
Ubiquitous darkness permeates Hannah Kent’s debut novel--the harsh, bleak landscape is certainly not softened by the storyline: Burial Rites (our Best of the Month debut spotlight pick) is the tale of the last woman to be publicly executed in Iceland. Despite this gloomy outset, Hannah Kent’s elegant prose manifests an obvious love for darkness, and the effect is riveting. Burial Rites …
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