We’re not sure whether anyone on the blog gets the New York Times, but there was a Muse connection in last Sunday’s book-review section. You can see it here.
And speaking of reviews, did anyone see Pollyhymnia’s review of the upcoming Nancy Drew movie?
(Pollyhymnia, a.k.a. Polly Shulman, is a Y.A. writer and reviewer who pops up on MuseBlog occasionally. We’ve had a series of threads about her novel, Enthusiasm.)
The “good parts” version. *giggle*
It’s a sad day when a book doesn’t have a table of contents or an index. *shakes head gravely*
I get the NYT, but only glanced through the kid’s books. I’ll have to go salvage it from the recyclables. I think I did read the review of the movie, I read something to do with Nancy Drew. Who is Pollyhymianian?…
Oh, ok, she does say some nice things about MB on her website! Elevator movies are fun!
Cool! I will check out both of those books…
I saw Polly’s review! I was like, hey it’s a museblogger, and my mom was like, whatev.
(1) Alice, I said the same thing about the table of contents and index. A crime against readers to leave them out.
…As for Nancy Drew — I clearly remember reading at least two of the books. I even remember what the books looked like and where I was when I read them. But I can’t recall a single thing about the contents. Her hair color? I guess I assumed she had hair of some sort.
Drat. When I try to look at Pollyhymnia’s review, it tells me to log in. Phooey.
5- She had red hair. I think. I read as many as three, I think. Or two.
nice!! i get the times, but i couldnt possibly have time to read the book review….
Pollyhymnia wrote a review for The Water Mirror! I wish I could see it.
i loked at the book review but did not see this. also the “kids” version of an inconveniet truth is basicly the book with out al gore.
but now i see that gapa cootz is a great writer
Its funny how many comments we are capable of making on a thread without actually discussing the topic…
Excellent book review Robert! I’m really glad you said what you did about ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, because I was always unsatisfied, in both the book and the movie, with some the science. I really felt as though he should have had more hard data and evidence and less claims and speculations. And its a good point about the question being whether or not this new generation actually needs another edition…
That book about Katrina sounds interesting though. I shall add it to my mental list of things to peruse.
Good job, Robert! I liked your tone and everything. You sounded very rational. I suppose the HPBs were nowhere in sight when you wrote this…
zat book sounds very kewl. i shall read. whatzit called again? *is too lazy to check*
11- Clearly you haven’t been to the pie war thread. I think we’ve exchanged a maximum of ten-twenty pies in 109 comments.
13- An Inconvenient Truth.
I don’t really think I want to read it, but it’s a very good review.
I must know: does the author of the article write the thing at the end (i.e. Robert Coontz is a…) or does the editor? One of many burning questions.
I don’t want to bother to create an account or anything with the New York Times, but I want to read the reviews. Would it make the page too long if someone would please post them?
16- Same here!
Just a random thought about Nancy Drew. She ALWAYS has to have a boy help her. I mean, not to sound all “Girls Rule” but can’t she do ANYTHING by herself? Gah.
What I want to know is why “American Girl” has a higher circulation than “Boy’s Life”!
Awww.. it told me I had to become a member. Bleh.
I think the Times does that after a week. Sorry!
21- It told me I had to login when the thread was new. I manged to read Robert’s review, but none of Pollyhymnia’s.
It told me to login for both of them. The first time I tried, the day after it came out, I think. Would it be particularly unethical to post the reviews here? If not, oh well.