Minnesota Reads

I need to stop being amazed that authors make me cry, because apparently I?m now a sloppy, sobbing, crying mess when I read. Patrick Ness got me, again. But this wasn?t just a little bit of water in my eyes or a few tears streaming down my cheeks. This time I was blubbering, weeping, practically [...]

When it comes to movies, I'm extremely emotional. It all started with “E.T.,” the first movie I saw in a movie theater. I was four and sobbing into my popcorn when the evil government tried to take E.T. and then again when E.T. left. That movie wrecked me for a week and my emotions for [...]

The last time we left young Todd Hewitt in Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking series, he was riding into Haven, with a severely injured Viola, to find that the Prentisstown army he thought he outran had already overtaken the town. The Ask and the Answer is all about Mayor Prentiss' rule, the quiet, native Spackle, and [...]

I was so mad at Patrick Ness at the end of The Knife of Never Letting Go. I even tweeted him telling him that I pouted and hated him for a little bit. That's actually a compliment. I read this book in a day and was so invested in the characters, Patrick Ness broke my [...]