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Epidemics

July 16, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: Love is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson

When I was a Junior in high school, I had a history teacher who wanted to make sure that we understood current events and the world that we lived in. So every Friday, we had a current events type quiz bowl. There was a boy in my class named Luke and him and I were […]

December 20, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

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 […]

September 26, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Epidemics, take II

We were talking about Epidemics on the Yalsa-bk listserv and some people reminded me of some great titles that I didn’t mention on Tuesday: The Masque of the Red Death by Bethany GriffinThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Kill Order by James DashnerPandemia by Jonathon RandEarth Abides by George StewartI Am Legend by Richard MathesonThe Rot […]

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“Bring out your dead.” – Monty Python and the Holy Grail When I was in the 8th grade, my history teacher was oh so kind as to send a note home to my parents letting them know I was failing history.  As you can imagine, that did not go over well.  And thus began my […]

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