MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2012
Last year, I sat down at the Austin Teen Book Festival and looked around in complete awe. Hundreds of teens, gathered together in one room excitedly tweeting and talking and making new friends…at a book festival. The concept just blew my mind in a good way. […]
This morning I went for a walk. Headphones in my ears, arms pumping, and there stood one lone yellow flower in a field of green grass. Technically probably a weed. But I looked at it and slowed . . . marveled for a moment. In the midst of all those green blades of grass sat […]
You would think that since this weekend is Mother’s Day, I would talk about being a mom. But instead, I want to talk about sisters. You see, I am very lucky in that I got to give my daughter a sister. Not that she always appreciates it to be honest; you should hear the two of them […]
On May 22nd debut author Jenny Torres Sanchez releases her first book, The Downside of Being Charlie. Fridays in May we are introducing you to Jenny and her main character, Charlie. Today Jenny is sharing her Why YA? post with us all. Want to share a YA book you love with us? You can. Click […]
Stephanie and I need you to weigh in on an ongoing debate we are having. Simply stated our question is this: do real world rules of romance apply in the world of supernatural fiction? But let’s back up and get some background info, shall we? It began simply enough yesterday when I tweeted that I […]
Trend Watch: Darkness Ruled the Land
Bethany Griffin, Book Reviews, Daniel Kraus, Dark Reads, Embrace, Jessica Shirvington, Masque of the Red Death, Rotters
|Today I take off my librarian hat and set it aside. I want to talk to you as a reader. As a fan. In particular, I want to talk about three very specific books: Masque of the Read Death by Bethany Griffin, Rotters by Daniel Kraus and Embrace by Jessica Shirvington. These are all each, […]
In this world, it is a known and accepted fact that werewolves exist. If you receive a scratch or a bite from a werewolf you must turn yourself in, for you now suffer from LS (lupine syndrome). Failure to report is a crime. The infected are sent off to rehabilitation camps and never heard from again. […]
We all have things we don’t like. For me, the list includes sea food and sports. It is hard for me as a librarian to hear someone say they don’t like to read, but over the years I have come to a sense of peace about it. I have come to the point where, for […]
The other day I walked into work and two of my co-workers told me they were reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children because they had read Cuyler’s review of it here. Sometimes it is jarring to see your work life and your, well, other work life intersect. To be honest, it is nice to […]
Although I am a weeper by nature, I am not a book weeper. The last book that really left me sobbing what If I Stay by Gayle Forman, until last week. True story: although I adored The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, I didn’t really cry when I finished it. Then, I read […]
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