By Emily Pooley
The Magee Park Poets is a group of poets based in the Carlsbad Area. They host writing workshops and poetry readings monthly. At their end of the year poetry reading on December 2nd, they hosted Poetry International’s managing editor and poet Jennifer Minniti-Shippey and a few of Poetry International’s MFA students.
By Sara Aslagson-Sahar
At 8pm the doors of Queen Bee’s opened and the line, which was down the block, began to move. For five dollars (cash), I was permitted entry and in I walked. The doors opened into the middle of the room where there were eight rows of five chairs on both sides of the aisle. Around these were several tall red tables with black backed chairs.
By Emily Pooley
PaperWeight is Meg Haston’s first Young Adult Novel. Haston also has a middle grade series called, How to Rock, which was made into a Nickelodeon show.
By Stephanie Romero
To this day Confessions of a Shopaholic is my favorite movie. The hit romantic comedy was inspired by Sophie Kinsella’s novel of the same title. She’s had much success with her Shopaholic series and other works. This year the “Queen of Romantic Comedy” decided to branch out into the Young Adult Fiction genre. I recently enjoyed her first YA book, Finding Audrey, especially because Kinsella has an authentic, relatable way of bringing up the serious subject of mental health. Continue reading
By Stephanie Romero
Photo Credit: Sierra Lewis
Monnee Tong is the teen services librarian at Central Library’s Pauline Foster Teen Center, a relaxing place where teens have a variety of resources. I, like many others, rely on my local library for the latest book releases and project and essay sources. I had the opportunity to ask some behind-the-scenes questions. Tong gives a glimpse into the life of a librarian! Keep Reading!
By Stephanie Romero
Sophie Kinsella just released her first Young Adult novel this past summer called Finding Audrey. Sophie Kinsella is the bestselling author of the Shopaholic series as well as many standalone novels. A novel from the Shopaholic series was adapted into a movie in 2009. She started her writing career with novels written under her real name, Madeleine Wickham. In Finding Audrey, Audrey’s journey to recovery with the help of Dr. Sarah, her family, and Linus is just the type of story Sculpt is interested in exploring. It’s difficult to write about a mental illness authentically, but she did so in this novel. I am thrilled to feature this interview.
By Sara Aslagson-Sahar
Reading The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson was such a good adventure. The characters were very real and so were their struggles. The Art of Being Normal follows David, a character who is worried about coming out as Transgender to his family, and Leo, a new kid a David’s school. After doing a book review, asking Lisa Williamson to do an interview was too good of an opportunity to pass up. She said yes and this is the interview that followed. Keep Reading!
By Sara Aslagson-Sahar
Are you someone who thinks the book is better or the movie adaptation? I feel like this is a timeless argument between book lovers and movie-enthusiasts alike, and the answer is not clear. Keep Reading!
By Stephanie Romero
RT Book Reviews magazine (RT) did an interview with the lovely Gayle Forman to speak about her duologies and upcoming work. Interviewer Morgan Doremus talked about Just One Day and Just One Year, and If I Stay and Where She Went (If I Stay was made into a movie in 2014 starring Chloë Grace Moretz). Doremus talked about characters and the adventures they experience, and Forman stressed the importance that her books are not one dimensional, rather they have more than one love story involved like falling in love with another a person, self-love, familial love, and things like that. Keep Reading!
By Sara Aslagson-Sahar
“This is not how I wanted my wish to come true. This is not how I would have chosen to become a quadrangle. I would far, far rather still be a triangle if it meant that my mom was alive. But since that it a scientific impossibility, I am trying to look on the bright side.
I have always wanted a sister.
And I’m about to get one.” -Stewart Keep Reading!
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