Cybils
Sunday Reflections: Why I Like Being a Cybils Judge and You Should Consider It
Today a box of books has shown up at my doorstep and I have another group of books I have to read sometime before December 20th(ish). All in all, between the beginning of October and the end of December I will have read over 130 YA speculative fiction titles. This is Cybils time. The Cybils […]
The 2014 Cybils Shortlist Finalists are Announced! And a thank you.
This year I was very excited (and honored!) to be a first round panelist for the 2014 Cybils in the YA Speculative Fiction category. There were a little over 200 books nominated and we were tasked with getting that list down to 7 worthy candidates. As you can imagine, there is a lot of great […]
Cybils Mini Reviews: Plague Edition featuring Reboot by Amy Tintera and A Matter of Days by Amber Kizer
The month of December finds me busily trying to read over 200 YA Speculative Fiction books for the 2013 Cybils (which are awesome). I had read a lot of the nominated books, but not all. So now I am happily playing catch up. Today I present mini reviews on two books that have a plague […]
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The Cybils and Thanksgiving 2013
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I’d thought he was angry, and he was, a bit, but when I looked into those eyes, I saw that what I had mistaken for anger was really terror. He was even more scared that I was. Scared that without the net, his job was gone. Scared that without the net, Mum couldn’t sign on every […]
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My Cybils 2012 Wishlist (and what I’ve reviewed so far)
This year, I am excited (and honored) to be a first round panelist (judge) for the Science Fiction and Fantasy panel of the 2012 Cybils. The Cybils are the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards. They are taking public nominations for awards through October 15th. You can nominate a title published between last year’s […]
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