One book tagged in his entry:
Feed by M.T. Anderson -- I'm teaching a class in Young Adult Literature at Moravian College this semester. The syllabus tries to include a huge variety of YA from various time periods and genres so really I'm reading (or re-reading) a ton of YA right now. One genre I wasn't really looking forward to teaching was science fiction, but the chair of my department suggested Feed and I'm so glad he did! It's one of the funniest books I've read in quite a while. The science fiction elements are fascinating but they don't overwhelm the human stories or the biting satire and hilarious one-liners. Plus it has one of the best opening lines I can think of: "We...[read on]About Strike Three, You're Dead:
Lenny Norbeck is a die-hard baseball lover. Unfortunately, he's no player himself (according to him, he's "the worst there ever was.") But he'd make a heck of an announcer. He gets a lot of practice sitting with his best friends, Mike and Other Mike,Learn more about the book and author at Josh Berk's website and blog.watching Phillies games from their lawn couch—a sweet outdoor TV arrangement Mike's dad hooked them up with. Being a real announcer is his dream, and he gets his chance to prove himself when he enters an "Armchair Announcer" contest and wins. The prize: he gets to be the broadcaster, live, for one inning at a real Phillies game.
The game goes very wrong, though. Before Lenny gets to do his inning, a young, promising pitcher fresh out of the minors literally drops dead on the mound. The official verdict is that he died of a heart attack, but Lenny has a hunch there's something more going on. So he and the Mikes set out to investigate. The suspects are many, and though the trio barks up the wrong tree a few times, they are always right on the heels of the real killer....
Writers Read: Josh Berk (March 2010).
Writers Read: Josh Berk.
--Marshal Zeringue
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