My problem with YA is that I don't always connect with the characters. They don't act sensibly.
Author: nesskingsley
[Story Time] repercussions of daydreaming
When you've spent half your life with your nose in a book and your head in the clouds, your sense of proportion, social settings, and - alas, to my cost - brain-to-mouth filter sometimes malfunction.
recountings: georgette heyer and how to run a drug cartel
He is one of the luckiest journalists alive just to have survived his research.
quotables: cloud of witness
"No decent-minded person would know how to spell ipecacuanha out of his own head."
tropes i would like to see more of
... maybe this is love - not because the character declares it every. other. page (I could say that I am a dragon-slaying astronaut, for sure, but that don't make it so) but because we - the reader - have watched it grow.
of words & books 