In fact, Richard Lewis wrote one of my favorite books of recent years, The Flame Tree, as a straightforward novel but Simon and Schuster published it under their YA imprint.

My wife and I have been enjoying Michael Buckley’s Sisters Grimm series and fighting over who gets to read the next book in the series first (I was a gentlemen and let my wife read it).

In an interesting twist Buckley has been commenting on his own books at Amazon (see here). What do you think of that strategy?

I will make a note of this series. Like Sarah, I have The Book Thief in my TBR pile but have been intimidated by the length. Perhaps, we should all just read it so we can discuss it.

And that’s the other beauty of YA, particularly for slowwwww readers like me – by necessity, the authors still generally follow the old dictum that brevity is the soul of wit.

Btw, I know YOU will love these books.

BTW, have you read THE BOOK THIEF yet? It’s in my TBR (as is Linda Newbery’s Whitbread-winning book) and I’m waffling on it, mostly b/c of the length.