I've not been in a mood for YA lately. Some of these stories I loved, others were OK. I'm very happy the school librarian at the school where I work agreed we should buy this for the school library. I think my favourite stories were: Cookie Cutter Superhero, The Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon, Signature, Vanilla, Careful Magic and Happy Go Lucky.
I don't read a lot of non-fiction, and I almost never read biographies or autobiographies. So, I don't really know what to say here.
I finished The Art of Asking just a few minutes ago. It's honest, and touching and heartfelt. It made me cry in places (I'm a dreadful crier when I read). In short I really, really liked it.
I'm and ESL teacher and every autumn I give my students of a certain course the assignment to write a song analysis. This is a struggle for a great many of them, they don't really pay attention to the lyrics when they listen to music. After the deadline for the analysis I play them the youtube clip of the TED-talk and we discuss it. They struggle with this too, but in the end we all get something out of the conversation. Thank you, Amanda Palmer.
There were things I liked about this book, the history parts for example. But I couldn't like Diana an Matthew. I especially had problems with their relationship, it's one of my pet peeves when a person doesn't believe their significant other, or trust them to do anything, so that set my teeth on edge. I'm not sure I'll continue with the series.