Kate Spofford, author

Category: Random

  • battle of the YA adaptation movie stars

    battle of the YA adaptation movie stars

    Which actors have been in the most movies based on YA books?

  • 5 reasons to DNF* a book

    5 reasons to DNF* a book

    Five good reasons to stop reading that book right now.

  • you can’t have a werewolf book without…

    you can’t have a werewolf book without…

    Werewolves in fiction have yet to escape their many trappings and rules of their mythology.  If you pick up a book about werewolves, you will most definitely find at least three of these things.

  • reading while traveling

    Apparently this is a thing I like to do: read a book set in the place I’m traveling to. Right now, I’m heading off to a weekend in Acadia, Maine, and I’m reading The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel, about a man who lived as a hermit in the backwoods of Maine for nearly…

  • when bookworms get earworms

    The first book that ever really got a song stuck in my head was If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth.  The title is taken from a Wings song, “Band on the Run.”  If you didn’t know, reading the book would tell you that Wings was a project of Paul McCartney’s after The…

  • 3 on a theme: books within books

    3 on a theme: books within books

    I am often reading between 3 and 5 books at the same time, and occasionally there’s a theme that might not be remarkable in one book… but when I see it in three books, I take notice. Well, I started this blog post with three recent titles, then I kept finding more.  I’ll try to…

  • stealing time to read

    I read a lot.  Every year for the last ten years I have read over 100 books. During two of those years, I read over 170 books.  As you can see from the little Goodreads widget on my blog, I’m usually in the middle of reading 3-5 books. When people say they don’t have time…

  • 3 books on a theme: brothers who died in the war

    I am often reading between 3 and 5 books at the same time, and occasionally there’s a theme that might not be remarkable in one book… but when I see it in three books, I take notice. In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters included among its characters a set of brothers, one of whom…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Days 28-31

    It’s been a busy weekend, and I haven’t had time to post (or watch many horror movies, for that matter…).  But I did do many things to celebrate Halloween so here they are! On Saturday morning I ran in the Costume Dash 5K, which was my only costumed event of this year.  My friend dressed…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 18: Teen Witch

    In one of my recent searches I stumbled across this beauty, which had been lost to my subconscious for a good reason.  From the opening that made me wonder if I had somehow accidentally turned on a Michael Bolton music video, to the odd musical numbers, this was a trip back to the 80s.  So…