At post-offer open days I hated three out of my five choices, cutting down my options quite a lot.
One aspect of this literary trend is inescapable: the number of titles being published by Bloomsbury (five out of my six choices, in fact).
Whether you indulge in an entree or not — and my three choices were all wonderful — if you love chocolate, don't overlook the sea salt chocolate mousse, a rich, deeply chocolate creation to swoon over.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson James Boswell My Life Storyy of a Provincial Anton Chekhov The Ballad of Peckham Rye Muriel Spark My three choices – one each from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries – are expressly designed to be doors giving on to other doors and then, exponentially, to others in the huge sprawling house of literature.
For the first time I had a partner in this project: Didi Menendez, the publisher of Poets and Artist's Magazine worked to create an online magazine to showcase my ten choices, and then went a step further.
When I made my final decision, I had the course lists of my final two choices, Geneseo and Binghamton, on my computer screen.
Nevertheless, when I sent out my full application to the University at Albany and SUNY College at Brockport, my top two choices, I would shortly receive acceptances from BOTH institutions -- they liked my essay.
Luckily, getting accepted to my top two choices, NYU and GW, made it pretty easy to start crossing schools off of my list.
I'm always on the look out for YA that feels fresh and original and they don't get much more fresh than my next two choices.
