Laurie Halse Anderson - an SBBT post

[kellyrfineman]

Laurie Halse Anderson is the well-known and award-winning author of novels for young adults, including Speak, Catalyst, Prom, and Twisted. She also writes for the somewhat younger set, however, including her award-winning picture book Thank You Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving and her middle-grade novel Fever, 1793. Laurie currently lives

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[jamarattigan]

Thanks for such a fabulous interview! Very enlightening.

[kellyrfineman]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[anonymous]

What a fabulous interview, and I can't wait to see Chains!

Great questions, Kelly....

Jules, 7-Imp

[kellyrfineman]

Not to completely taunt you, but . . . there's an ARC in the mail to me because I donated money to Scot's race fund. Squee!!

[lisa_schroeder]

Great interview!

I can't wait to read CHAINS. I enjoyed FEVER 1793 so much!

[kellyrfineman]

Me too! As I just told Jules, I'm getting an ARC in the mail sometime very soon. Squee!

My copy of Fever is particularly meaningful to me because Laurie signed it for me last fall. For all I know, the inscription is what she puts in all of the books, but it means a lot to me because of the Jane project. She wrote: "To Kelly, Who knows how to hear the voices from the past!" It makes me really really happy.

[kellyrfineman]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[deenaml]

I have to stock up on more copies of FEVER for my lib for the summer -- it's on the local school's summer reading list. yay. And now I want to read CHAINS and WINTERGIRLS. :)

[kellyrfineman]

I think it's on one of our local lists as well. I know it's in a neighboring school district, but I'm not positive about the one I live in. Still, they always have a bajillion copies of it in the stores/libraries around here. I can't wait to get my ARC of Chains. Wintergirls is a ways away. And, based on Laurie's comments, extremely dark. So, I'm only cautiously looking forward to it (dark isn't high on my list of things I like in a book, but hey - it's Laurie Halse Anderson!)