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On Spock ears, teenage dreams and Bill (throwing that darned chair)

Posted by Ilsa Posted on December 3, 2010 2 Comments

Posted in On The Writing Life, Silly Things About Stuff I Like, Star Trek Tagged Dear Teen Me, ilsa j. bick, Star Trek

Bop on by Dear Teen Me, a great new site chockablock with YA authors who offer some words of solace, wisdom or just plain hindsight to their teen selves. I’m there today, dithering about Spock ears, unrequited love and how…

October 2010 Recommended Reads, Listens . . . and Looks

Posted by Ilsa Posted on October 31, 2010 0 Comments

Posted in Recommended Reads and Listens Tagged audiobooks, draw the dark, dystopian novels, film studies, ilsa j. bick, joshua swanson, michael grant, movies, mystery, paranormal, patrick ness, recommended reads, science fiction, stephen king, Steven Spielberg, YA

I am in love with my portable DVD player. Seriously. Not only has that little, relatively inexpensive piece of tech saved me from soul-sucking, gym-induced, elliptical/stairmaster/treadmill insanity, it has reminded me, yet again, of how well some movies work when…