Arlaina Tibensky
I am the world's oldest teenager. I owe Columbia University a lot of $$$. I have 2 children- boys with solid man-names. I am a writer with a young adult novel coming JULY 26, 2011 called AND THEN THINGS FALL APART. My husband is not American. I am not blond. I believe in the power of fiction and...
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I am the world's oldest teenager. I owe Columbia University a lot of $$$. I have 2 children- boys with solid man-names. I am a writer with a young adult novel coming JULY 26, 2011 called AND THEN THINGS FALL APART. My husband is not American. I am not blond. I believe in the power of fiction and curate the Pen Parentis Literary Salon at the Libertine Library in NYC.
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I am sorely disappointed. I picked up this book because of the premise. Keek is a writer who is cut off from her friends because she has no Internet access and her cell is broken. That to me was a promise that Keek would be an introspective character with witty or poignant observations to share. No,...
From "Best Kept YA Secrets 2011" www.jenryland.blogspot.com Dec 13, 2011Sylvia Plath. Chicken Pox. An old-fashioned typewriter. This sounds like a party game: pick three things out of a hat and make them into a story. But it works. Keek is quarantined at her grandmother's house with a case of the c...
I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Plath.
Loved this one; a perfect end-of-summer read! Now I just have to go back and reread The Bell Jar so I can enrich my rereading of And Then Things Fall Apart. :) So hard to pick a favorite character in this one...I loved Keek's grandmother and her BFF Nicole, but Ms. Tibensky did a fantastic job givi...
I could never really get into this one. Keek is a soon-to-be sophomore dealing with chicken pox, a dissolving family, lack of technology, and a boyfriend who is tired of not sealing the deal. We're given the story across the days of Keek's illness. Keek finds an old typewriter to use and spends th...
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